Kibale National Park is a must-visit National Park when you intend to visit Uganda-Africa’s most leading touristic and engrossing areas that offer reputable chimpanzee tracking Safari, When you place your feet in the Uganda wildlife nature gifted bio-diverse habituating the friends of man-chimpanzees, really grips down your attention as you trek through the tropical rain forest full of primates, bird species, lions, leopards and other african Safari wildlife.
The wildlife Safari in this blessed tropical rainforest is rewarding and worthy your Safari as it changes your life and gives you a life experience to become a story teller, especially when you come across the friends of man in the kibale National Park, known to be one of the most interesting national parks in the whole of Africa that has the most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda, habituating numerous species of primates .
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Kibale National Park is located in the districts of Kamwenge and Kabarole, approximately 320 kilometers, by road, west of Kampala-Uganda’s capital and largest city. Kibale National Park is found in the southern part of Uganda, protecting moist evergreen rain forest occupying an elevated plateau. African Adventure Travellers organises numerous chimpanzee tracking Uganda Trips to this destination
It is seen to cover up 766 square kilometres in size, Occupying an elevation of between 1,100 metres to 1,600 metres. Despite encompassing primarily moist evergreen forest. The park is is recorded to habour more than 70 different mammal species, most importantly, the 13 species of primates, basically the interesting apes chimpanzees.
National Park contains a diverse array of landscapes, it is one of the last remaining expanses to contain both lowland and montane forests. Kibale National Park, also contains different bird species of about 370 species, due to its good location, it adjoins Queen Elizabeth National Park to the south.
This creates a 180km-long corridor for wildlife between Ishasha, the remote southern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Sebitoli in the north of Kibale National Park. Thus being an important eco-tourism and safari destination, popular for its population of habituated chimpanzees and twelve other species of primates.
Kibale National park lies close to the tranquil Ndali-Kasenda crater area, this makes it an interesting vicinity around and within half a day’s drive of the Queen Elizabeth, Rwenzori Mountains and Semuliki National Parks, as well as the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve. Kibale National Forest is recognized as one of the highest diversity and concentration of primates in Africa. It is home to a large number of endangered chimpanzees, the red colobus monkey and the rare L’Hoest’s monkey
Locals and the park: The outskirts of this park can been seen occupied by two major tribes, the Batooro and Bakiga, they use the park for food, fuel, medicinal herbs and other resources with the help of the Uganda Wildlife Authority.What to expect: The park harbors around 13 species of primates like chimpanzees, Central African monkey including the Uganda mangabey, the Ugandan red colobus and the L’Hoest’s monkey, black-and-white colobus and the blue monkey, elephants, African golden cats, servals, red and blue duikers, bushbucks, sitatungas, bushpigs, giant forest hogs, common warthogs, and African buffalo, leopards, different mongooses and two species of otter. In addition, lions visit the park on occasion
Birding: The Park is recorded to have over 325 species of birds, including the olive long-tailed cuckoo, western tinkerbird, two species of pittas and the African grey parrot. And many more birds. Its good to note that this place is also good for birding, as seen with numerous bird nests swinging in the forests, prey birds etc