3 Days Chimpanzee Trekking in Uganda Kibale – Mova Uganda Safaris

3 Days Chimpanzee Trekking in Uganda Kibale

Safari Overview

Travel Highlights

Safari Overview

Travel Highlights

Chimpanzees are known to be the closest relatives to the human race with a percentage of 98.7%. Most of the habituating places where one can see the chimpanzees and also get to enjoy the numerous chimp treks are found in the two countries of Rwanda and Uganda. You get a chance to see these primates and with the help of the different trackers, you will learn more about the primates.

Travel Highlights

Day 1: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking & Bigodi wetland walk
Day 3: Departure- To Kampala

Uganda is a diverse country that has a lot of things you can see and do and the one of the best things to do is chimpanzee trekking. The minimum age for all those who always want to go for chimpanzee trekking in most parks is fifteen years apart from Kalinzu forest where it is twelve years

Price includes/excludes

Park fees (For non-residents).
Chimpanzee Trekking Permits
A professional driver/guide
All activities(Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade).
Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section).
All transportation (Unless labeled as optional).
Roundtrip airport transfer
Drinking Water

International flights (From/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour.
Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day).
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Extra meals, snacks, gratuities, souvenirs, service tips
The government imposed increases in taxes and/or park fees.

Detailed Itinerary

→ Day 1: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

On this day you will wake up early enough and have breakfast form the Hotel/your residence and your tour guide/driver will pick you up from there, after a short briefing about the safari you will drive to the Western part of Uganda to Kibale National Park. Have a stopover in Fortportal for lunch and thereafter have a visit to the tea plantations or Toro crater lakes. Proceed to the Park and check in at the lodge of your choice.

You could opt for a nature walk in the forest that evening whereby you will see different wildlife species. Have dinner and an overnight as you prepare for Chimpanzee trekking the next day.

Accommodation Options; Primate lodge/Crater Safar lodge (Luxury), Kibale Forest Camp/Chimpanzee guest house(Mid-range), Rweteera lodge/Kibale Forest camp-lazy camping(Budget)

Meal plan; Lunch & dinner.

→ Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking & Bigodi wetland walk

After your morning breakfast, your driver will take you to the park information centre where you will be briefed together with other guests about what to do and not to do while trekking chimpanzees. Thereafter you will set out to look for the chimpanzees in the forest and experience unforgettable. Trekking might take 2 to 6 hours of which it is based on the location of chimpanzees.

In the process of seeing chimpanzees you will be able to see also different birds, monkeys like the black and white colobus, grey cheeked Mangabey, golden monkeys among others, and various trees species as you walk through the forest. Later after this amazing time with the chimpanzees, return to the lodge for lunch and thereafter your guide/driver will take you to Bigodi wetland for a swamp walk while there still you will see more primates like the Red tailed monkeys, baboons, bush pigs, LHoests Monkeys, otters and others as well as bird species like the great blue Turuco. You will also meet some old people that stay in that community together with school going children.

At the end of the day you would have received a great African experience since you will see how these people live, do their day to day activities among other things. Head back to the lodge, have dinner & Overnight.

Accommodation Options; Primate lodge/Crater Safari lodge (Luxury), Kibale Forest Camp/Chimpanzee guest house(Mid-range), Rweteera lodge/Kibale Forest camp-lazy camping(Budget)

Meal plan; Full board (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)

→ Day 3: Departure- To Kampala

Have your breakfast at the lodge as you mark the end of this amazing 3 days safari.

After breakfast start off the journey back to Kampala with packed lunch from the lodge. You will reach Kampala in the evening. [End of Safari]

Meal plan; Breakfast and Lunch

There are several things that you need to carry when one decides to go for a chimpanzee trekking experience and some of these include the following:

• Long sleeved clothes as this will help shield you from tree scratches as you are trekking and insect bites from the tropical insects especially during the wet season.

• A permit will be needed after paying a specified amount of money and this will be given to you by the game park where you want to go for your trekking.

• A wide brimmed hat and sunscreen to use especially during the dry season because the heat can be unbearable sometimes.

• Trekking shoes, you will need to get strong trekking shoes as these will help you not to slip especially during the times when the trekking routes are a bit slippery.

• Garden gloves, these will help grip the trees properly without getting your fingers scratched.