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4 Days Kibale Chimpanzee Trekking & Bird Watching Safari
This 4-day Kibale Forest Park safari offers you the best of this rainforest Park. The 4-day safari rewards you with the best chimpanzee trekking adventure, nature walk in Bigodi wetland and bird watching to see different bird species residing in this forest. Kibale Forest is the “primate capital of Africa” sheltering 13 primates and 370 bird species 4 of which have not been recorded anywhere else in the whole world. The trip starts and ends in Kampala Uganda
Trip Summary
Day 1: Pick up & transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking Adventure
Day 3: Bigodi Nature Walking & Birding
Day 4: Departure
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Pick up & transfer to Kibale Forest National Park
Depending on your time of arrival, you will be transferred to Kibale National Park, which is 7 7-hour drive away from the capital to western Uganda. We will pass through the green lush plantations of plantain/banana, continue through different homesteads until we pass through the big tea estates to the park. Here your guide will allow you to learn and understand more about the tea plantation growing until the final stages of processing and packaging. Upon reaching your hotel you will have an optional activity of crater hiking, which will allow you to visit different crater lakes. Stay at the Chimpanzee Forest Lodge, Guereza Lodge, turaco tree tops and many others.
Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking Adventure
Wake up early in the morning and assemble at the park headquarters for the briefing. Here you will get full information in a general briefing about the park, its size and the year of gazettement. You will be allocated to a small group of 9 people per group and also allocated to the a ranger guide that will be able to take you deep in the jungle with the help of 2 security personnel who are eligible and able to scare shoot up in air in case of any dangerous animal. This activity take half a day and later, we proceed to our lodge for lunch and relax at our lodge as we sort out field photos and video.
Day 3: Bigodi Nature Walking & Birding
We start up our day early in the morning to Bigodi Swamp looking for birds like the red-headed malimbe, black-headed heron, gray crowned crane, great blue turaco, whithered hornbill, Afrisqued hornbill, different types of weaver bird, kites, eagle, chakras, apalis, cuckoos, cuacals, different species of sunbirds and many more. Besides being in the swamp, we also expect to see different types of monkeys like vervet monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, red colobus monkeys, baboons, sitatungas, and many more animals.
This swamp walking activity takes us a whole day. Later we come back for lunch and after we proceed for a coffee tour with a coffee queen, banana bear, and traditional herbalist who will take the whole process.
Dinner and overnight and the same lodge.
Day 4: Departure
This is the last day of our 4 Days Kibale Forest park safari. Have a relaxed breakfast, check out and embark on a drive headed to the airport for return flight
End of the safari
Tour Inclusions
– Full-time English-speaking guide
– Accommodation & meals
– Chimpanzee permit
– Bird watching
– Nature walks
– All activities included in the itinerary
– Government taxes
Tour Exclusions
– Alcoholic beverages
– Extra activities not included in the itinerary
– Tips
– Visa fees
