Day 2 & 3: Kibale Forest National Park
This day we drive to Kibale Forest Reserve via Mityana and Fort Portal, in a breathtaking landscape that forms the Albertine western Rift Valley. We will have several stopovers to relax, and sightseeing as we pass verdant countryside, traditional homesteads, and farms. We will have our packed/picnic lunch on the way.
Kibale National Park contains one of the loveliest and most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda. Forest cover, interspersed with patches of grassland and swamp, dominates the northern and central parts of the park on an elevated plateau. Kibale is famously known for Chimpanzee tracking.
The next day you will be allocated to a chimpanzee community and your ranger guide will lead you on the trek in search of this great ape. Watch the chimpanzees in their natural habitat, as they swing from the branches in the canopy high above the forest floor, feed, play, and rest.
In the afternoon, explore the Bigodi village. You have the opportunity to visit a swamp with abundant butterflies, plants, animals, and spectacular birds like Great Blue Turaco and will be of great interest to birders. After this experience, you will take a village walk that will lead you to the Coffee experience, banana beer making, busked making, and traditional healer.