5 days gorillas and chimpanzee tracking
Overview
Gorilla trekking and chimpanzee tracking in Uganda's lush jungles provide a unique opportunity to witness the world's largest primates. Key destinations include Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Kibale National Park, home to diverse wildlife.
- 🦍 Engage with mountain gorillas during your trek in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
- 🐒 Track chimpanzees and encounter 11 other primate species in Kibale National Park.
- 🌳 Drive through Queen Elizabeth National Park to spot the famous tree-climbing lions.
- ⚠️ This safari may require physical fitness; ensure you are prepared for trekking activities.
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Pickup included
- Continental breakfast
- All activities
- Lunch
- Driver/guide
- Round-trip private transfer
- 4 nights accommodation
- 3-course dinner
- Bottled water
- Professional guide
- Private tour
- Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
- DVD (available to purchase)
- Gratuities
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Excess luggage charges (where applicable)
Meeting point
Return details
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We drive off to western Uganda to Kibale Forest Camp, sleeping with the noises of the tropical Rain forest. You’ll stay at Chimpanzee Guesthouse, overlooking Nyabikere Crater Lake. The lake is famous for the frogs: at night they always give a beautiful concert.
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Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale Forest, At 8.00am we will start with 4 hours chimp tracking – during which you may also get to see 10 other primates! Kibale park is also known for all the butterflies and birds. In the afternoon we will walk through Bigodi Swamp (home to a community based project).
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Bwindi Impenetrable ForestWe will cross Kazinga Channel, traveling through Queen Elizabeth Park, and reach Kabale in time for lunch. From Kabale we will continue through a beautiful landscape also defined as the “Switzerland of Africa”: mountains, lakes, hills with cultivated terraces, tropical rain forest and bamboo forest. On the last hill the landscape unfolds beneath us, taking in the vast planes between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, with the Virunga volcanoes dominating the view. At the bottom of the valley is Kisoro, where we will stay at the famous Travelers Rest Hotel.
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Bwindi Impenetrable ForestThe day of gorilla tracking, you will travel by car from Travelers Rest Hotel in Kisoro to Nkuringo, in the southern part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (1hr). Once there you will first receive a briefing (7.45am) and at 8.30am you will start the tracking. Once you have found the gorillas, you will be able to spend up to one hour with them! You will be expected back to the starting point by 7.00pm at the latest. physically conditioned peoples are recommended.
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Airport Transfer EntebbeEarly in the morning after breakfast you will travel back to Kampala. On the way back to the city you will have lunch in Mbarara town, and after Masaka there will be an opportunity to a stop at the Equator for photo shoots and buying souvenirs and have tea or coffee. We will then bring you back to Kampala or Entebbe for your flight back home and marks the end of the Safari Tour.
If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.