5 Days Uganda safari with Chimpanzee tracking and gorilla trekking. A fantastic Uganda safari option for primates lovers. This tour can ably start from Kigali or most conveniently from Kampala just 4 – 5 hours driving distance.
Kibale national park hosts a large number of chimpanzees and offers tourists a guarantee to view chimpanzees upclose. We can also organize chimpanzee habituation for tourists interested.
Gorilla tracking offers a unique encounter with man’s close relative with 1 hour observing, photographing the gorillas in the jungle.
Your guide will pick you up from Kampala driving via fort portal to Kibale national park. You will have lunch in fort portal enroute.
Have breakfast at your hotel and be ready to transfer to Kibale park head offices for briefing before you start chimpanzee tracking. Tracking for chimpanzees takes about 3 – 4 hours and will come across other primates like white and black Colobus monkeys, olive baboons, red Colobus, grey checked mangabey in the forest. After the tracking chimps, return back to your hotel for lunch and later visit Bigodi eco swamp.
Today you will set off early after breakfast driving to Bwindi national park. Enjoy the beautiful Ugandan countryside with stops at all interesting points.
After a comprehensive briefing overview from one of the head guides about what to expect during your gorilla trekking adventure, you will split into groups of 8 people for which gorilla family you will be tracking. If you need a simple hike, inform your guide before the briefing so that he helps speak to the trackers to select for you a simple hike. The trackers have an idea of how far each group is as their colleagues go into the forest earlier to establish actual locations of the gorilla groups. Do hire a porter, even if you feel fit enough not to need a hand up having someone else to carry your backpack makes it so much easier as you hike.
Return to your hotel for lunch and an afternoon rest, and late evening head out to visit the Batwa pygmies communities which are just neighboring the park. These where the former forest inhabitants who where led out of the forest in order to conserve mountain gorillas and their habitant. You will have a chance to interact with them and learn about their cultures.
Today is your last day and if traveling to Kampala you will set off early so you can catch your departure flight and if departing via Kigali, its a shorter drive to the airport.