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Depart Entebbe\Kampala for a 5-hour picturesque drive through western Uganda to Fort Portal Town. A beautiful drive with scenic views of tea plantations, green mountain backdrops, and the people and their cultures along the road.
Once in Fort Portal, you can decide with your private Chimp Habituation driver/guide to visit the amazing caves that are surrounded by the creator lakes. Inside these beautiful caves are historical myths about the Bachwezi people with associated geographical features such as the breast-like pointed pillars, stalactites, and the stalagmites locally called the “Amabeere ga Nyinamwiru”? This mythical story about the Bachwezi people and their culture will blow your mind. You’ll retire to your booked lodge and prepare for the following day, which will equally be exciting as you spend time with the Chimps.
After breakfast, head to Kibale Forest National Park headquarters for a briefing, and you'll be assigned a chimp group that you’ll either be tracking or going for a habituation experience. For Chimpanzee habituation, you’ll have to wake up very early to be able to meet the Chimps before they wake up from their nests to embark on a breakfast foraging. You will then follow these animals throughout the day.
This 3-Day Chimp Habituation or Trekking tour will expose you to Chimpanzees, the black and white colobus monkeys, the bush baby, grey-checked mangabey, red tailed monkeys, as well as the different bird species that you encounter along your trekking journey. There are about 138 species of birds, including the black bee-eater and the crowned eagle, that have been recorded in Kibale National Park.
You will have a late lunch at your lodge (particularly for those who will have opted for Chimp tracking). After lunch, you will visit the Bigodi swamp, which is privately owned by the local community. This swamp is home to more than 10 primate species and is also an excellent place for bird watchers. Some animals like the Warthogs can also be seen in this swamp. Since this walk in the Bigodi wetland is designed and managed by the local community surrounding the park, all the fees you pay for the walk directly go to benefit the local community living around Kibale National Park. As Encounter Africa Safaris, we encourage our clients to take part in this walk as the money raised from it helps the communities to sustainably manage and utilize this wetland
After your breakfast, you will be driven to Kampala or Entebbe for your post tour accommodation or you may choose to fly out of Uganda today. You will use the same route enabling you to have a second stop over at the Equator.
This tour is 100% sustainable. We encourage our travelers to minimize their carbon footprint by choosing eco-friendly practices.
Cancellations made more than 60 days before departure qualify for an 80% refund of the deposit paid. Cancellations made between 30 and 59 days before departure qualify for a 50% refund of the deposit. Cancellations made less than 30 days before departure are non-refundable. Gorilla and Chimpanzee permits are non-refundable once purchased. Guests are advised to purchase comprehensive travel insurance for unforeseen circumstances.
Among Uganda's gorilla trekking safari experiences, booking a trek to visit the Nyakagezi family in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park follows its own distinct logistics shaped by the family's unique cross-border movement, the park's smaller size, and a booking process that, while broadly similar to Bwindi's, carries a few important differences worth understanding before you commit your dates and your deposit. Here is exactly how to book the Nyakagezi gorilla trek, step by step.
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Every now and then a destination becomes so famous that people start questioning whether it can possibly live up to its own reputation. Serengeti National Park is one of those places. You have seen the photographs, watched the documentaries, read the articles, and somewhere in the back of your mind a small but persistent voice is asking whether the reality can genuinely match the legend. Whether all those wildebeest, all those lion prides, all that extraordinary golden savannah stretching to the horizon is truly as breathtaking in person as it looks on a screen. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that the Serengeti does not just live up to its reputation it quietly exceeds it in ways that no photograph or documentary has ever managed to fully capture, and here is exactly why.