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3 Day Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale National Park & Crater Lakes Visit | MuAfrika Adventures

This 3 Day Chimpanzee tracking and Crater lakes visit to Kibale Forest National Park famous for Chimpanzee Trekking to Explore the Jungles

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8 DAYS CHIMPANZEE SAFARI GOMBE STREAM AND MAHALE MOUNTAINS

This is a perfect safari combination to see chimpanzee up close in western Tanzania.

Ngombe stream National Park is the famous place where Jane Goodall did her research on chimpanzee populations. It is located on the western border of Tanzania and the Congo. and has 35 km² of protected land along the hills of the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Mahale Mountains National Park is located close by, south of the city of Kigoma. It is the only place where chimpanzees and lions co-exist. This private safari offers you the flexibility to travel at your own pace, exactly the way you like it. You will have a private safari vehicle and guide. This itinerary is only available in one class.

Itinerary.

DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN DAR ES SALAAM

DAY 2: FLIGHT TO KIGOMA

DAY 3: GOMBE STEAM NATIONAL PARK

DAY 4: GOMBE STEAM NATIONAL PARK

DAY 5: DRIVE AND BOAT TRANFER FROM KIGOMA TO MBALI MBALI LODGE MAHALE.

DAY 6: MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

DAY 7: RETURN FROM MAHALE TO KIGOMA

DAY 8: FLIGHT TO DAR ES SALAAM AND FLIGHT HOME

Itinerary

DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN DAR ES SALAAM

Welcome to Tanzania! Upon your arrival at Dar es Salaam Airport, our friendly and knowledgeable guide will be eagerly waiting to warmly welcome you. He will be readily available to assist you and ensure a smooth transfer to your hotel. Sit back, relax, and let us take care of all your travel needs, providing you with a memorable and unforgettable experience in Tanzania.

DAY 2: FLIGHT TO KIGOMA

Today you fly from Dar Es Salaam to Kigoma, on the western side of the country. When you arrive, a driver is waiting to bring you to your hotel, after which there is plenty of time to go for example on a city tour, visit a historial town or a nearby village, or go for boat ride on Lake Tanganyika. The next day it's all about the chimpanzees!

DAY 3-4: GOMBE STREAM NATIONAL PARK

Have you always dreamed of seeing chimps in their natural habitat? Then by all means visit the Gombe Stream National Park where Jane Goodall once did her behavioural research on chimpanzee populations. This small national park lies along the western border of Tanzania on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, where it is only accessible by boat. Step into the footsteps of Jane Goodall as a guide takes you to watch groups of chimpanzees climb trees, play or nurse their babies!

DAY 5-6: MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

More chimpanzees await you in the Mahale Mountains National Park. At a 2.5-hour drive and a boat ride from Gombe National Park, this park is a bit larger and home to roughly 900 wild chimpanzees. The park is different from most since there are no roads and you have to go on foot. Experienced guides take you on a hike through the mountains in search of groups of chimpanzees. Once found, you get plenty of time to observe these beauties - a magical experience!

DAY 7: RETURN FROM MAHALE TO KIGOMA

After an amazing time with the chimpanzees, it is time to embark on your journey from Mahale back to Kigoma. This beautiful and adventurous journey by boat and car takes approximately eight hours.

DAY 8: FLIGHT TO DAR ES SALAAM AND FLIGHT HOME

This is your last day! Today you fly to Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar Es Salaam, from where you will catch your flight home. Having second thoughts? Then don't hesitate to extend your holiday to one of Tanzania's best destinations.

WHATS INCLUDED?

All Accommodation as per the itinerary.

Transport and transfers 4 x 4 safari vehicle with pop up roof for game viewing.

Professional English speaking driver guide.( or other languages as well )

All game drives activities as per the itinerary.

All Park entrance fees.

All Government taxes and V.A.T

Daily Meals (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)

Bottle drinking water daily.

Reservation costs

Boat

WHATS EXCLUDED?

All flights International and domestic.

Travel insurance.

All items of personal care.

All optional activities.

Tips for driver guides and Hotels.

Alcoholic drinks and non alcoholic drinks.

Visa.

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CHIMPANZEE TRACKING SAFARI IN KIBALE NATIONAL PARK 

The park is located in the Western Part of Uganda in the Districts of Kabarole and Kamwenge. It is best known for the number and variety of resident Primates. An Impressive list of 13 Primate species includes Uganda’s largest population of Chimpanzees with an Estimated 1450. Habituated Groups can be tracked with experienced Ranger Guides. Chimpanzee tracking guidelines, permits, booking procedures, itineraries and habituation information. Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best safari destination in Africa for chimpanzee trekking in Uganda. Kibale’s 795 km2 National Park contains one of the most beautiful and with the most varying tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda. This is a place to a number of forest wildlife, most especially 13 species of primate coupled with chimpanzees. The Forest covering predominates in the central and northern part of the park on the raised Fort Portal plateau. At the park’s northern tip, Kibale is highest and stands 1590m above sea level Kibale Safari.

It’s a 12 km hike and usually done in the dry seasons. The months are mid November-February, June and September. Hiking helps discover the park’s assorted habitats such as river line forest, swamp, grassland and tropical rainforest.

Birding in Kibale

Visit Bigodi a top birders spot. It’s famous for wildlife such as chimpanzees, red colobus, black and white colobus, red tailed monkey, bushbuck as well as mongoose. It has about 138 bird species seen on nature walks within.

Cultural Trail

The nature walk begins from Kanyanchu or Sebitoli and it takes about 2-6 days. The enroute will help discover the forest and late rest in the community-run campsites close to the villages of Kikoni,Nyakalongo and Nyaibanda.

Additionally the wettest area is Northern Kibale , receiving an average annual rainfall of equal to 1700mm, mainly during March-May and September-November. The climate is usually pleasant with an average annual temperature range of 14 to 27oC. Temperatures are at maximum (& rainfall lower) in the south where the terrain drops onto the blistering rift valley floor and forest provides way to open grassland. Southern Kibale borders Queen Elizabeth National Park and collectively these preserved areas maintain a 180 kilometer long migration corridor for wildlife that stretches from the remote southern sector of Queen Elizabeth  National Park in “Ishasha”, to the north of Kibale in “Sebitoli”. The Kibale-Fort Portal region is one of Uganda’s most pleasing places to explore. The park is located close to the calm Ndali Kasenda crater area & which takes a half day’s drive to Queen Elizabeth, Rwenzori Mountains & Semuliki National Parks along with the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve.

Flora and fauna in Kibale Forest

Kibale’s varied altitude holds up different varieties of habitat, ranging from moist evergreen forest (wet tropical forest) along the Fort Portal plateau, then through the dry tropical forest (moist semi deciduous), and then to the woodland & savanna along the rift valley floor.

In the central part of the park, around Kanyanchu, the high forest consist of a mixture of evergreen trees and  deciduous with the evergreen species being dominant. Vegetation rise to over 55m and establish a semi closed canopy of massive stratified tree crowns. With shade tolerant herbs, a variety of ferns, shrubs and broad leaved forest grasses, the undergrowth is sparse. 351 tree species have been registered in the park.

Chimpanzee Tracking Safari 

The density and diversity of primates in Kibale National Park is the highest in the whole of Africa. The most well known of its 13 species are the chimpanzees, our closest relative. Kibale’s 1450 chimpanzee indicate Uganda’s biggest population of this threatened primate. A Uganda Safari can enable you to see all these primates. Additionally Kibale is home to the uncommon I’Hoest’s monkey as well as East Africa’s biggest population of the endangered red colobus monkey. The black & white colobus, red tailed monkey, blue monkey, olive baboon, grey cheeked mangabey, bush baby and potto are among the other primates.

Other mammals are also present, though they are hardly seen. These consist of buffalo, leopard, bush pig elephant, and duiker. A neat viewer could also see amphibians and reptiles and a colorful variety of butterflies.

The park is a home to 325 variety of bird species, including 6 that are native to the Albertine Rift destination, that is to say dusky crimsonwing, black-capped apalis, blue-headed sunbird, collared apalis,red-faced woodland warbler and purple-breasted sunbird. Other Kibale specials are the green breasted pitta,African pitta, black bee-eater,Abyssinian groundthrush, yellow spotted nicator, little greenbul, black-eared ground thrush, brownchested alethe, yellow rumped tinker bird, blue-breasted kingfisher,  along with the crowned eagle.

Local people

The people living around Kibale National Park are mostly Batoro and Bakiga. The Batoro are native to the region while the Bakiga are just immigrants from the thickly populated southwestern part of the country. The Batoro carry pride in the ethnical heritage of the Kingdom of Toro, a section of the ancient kingdoms of the Great Lakes region in Africa. The king (Omukama) and the kingdom personify the traditional along with cultural values of the Batoro. The immigrants (Bakiga) still hold their culture and tradition as expressed in their dance, folklore, as well as language.

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