4 Days/ 3 Nights – Kibale National Park

Your driver will be waiting with an airport sign at the airport exit lounge to transfer you to 2 friends Beach Hotel. 2 friends beach Hotel found at edge of the second largest fresh water body in the world offers the best views of the powerful waves crushing against the white sands, a very serene natural environment to relax in. After a 15 minutes’ drive from the airport, you will find the beautiful hotel with different room classifications like the lake View with AC rooms, Pool view rooms, budget rooms – all these to make guests comfortable in their budget. Alongside the comfort of the rooms, the hotel provides different amenities like the free Wi-Fi access, 24 hours room service, and secure parking space and also to mention the delightful meals.

Overnight at 2 Friends beach Hotel.

Your driver will pick you up from 2 friends Guest House in the morning after your breakfast to transfer you to Kibale National Park. The drive time is approximately 5 – 6 hours from Entebbe.

The road drive offers lots of amazing sighting and views, you can as well stop over for a few photography moments if time permitting. Along the road expect to see the locals go on with their daily lives and how they run their business, the kids playing in the homesteads, the plantations of bananas and other crops along the hills and the valleys and note that you will be going through the cleanest town in the country – Fort portal, stop over the tea plantations and after like 5 -6 hours you will have reached Kibale Forest National Park.

Kibale Forest National Park is the most accessible of Uganda’s rainforests. It covers an area of 766km2 of which the dominant vegetation is lush and shady rainforest, interspersed with patches of grassland and swamp. This enchanting and exotic environment is home to at least 60 mammals species, remarkably 13 of which are primates. It has a rich diversity of birds with 335 species identified. 

Kibale forest national park is home to 13 primate species and a guided forest walk can be taken in search of one of the most popular primate species in the world – the chimpanzee. There are 9 diurnal primates, these include vervet, red-tailed, L’Hoest’s, blue monkeys, grey-cheeked manabey, red colobus, black and white colobus, olive baboon and of course the chimps. Although chimp sightings are not guaranteed, the odds are good with the chance of encountering them at about 90%.

Once at the lodge, you can relax in your room or enjoy some of the optional activities available like the Crater Lake visit.

Dinner and overnight at Turaco Treetops safari Lodge.

Turaco Safari Lodge is located just at the outskirts of the forest canopy and a 10 minutes’ walk to Bigodi Swamp and a 5 minutes’ drive to the park headquarters. The lodge is one of the most recommendable lodge around Kibale Forest because of its beauty just like the Blue Turaco from which the lodge was named. The rooms are scattered on the premises to offer a very exclusive experience and each room has a balcony for you to relax as you watch the natural life as you sip on your coffee or tea. All rooms have ensuite showers, large beds with mosquito nets draping, a reading table and the interior designs are also so amazing plus the lounge is well spacious with comfy seats for you to relax and enjoy your free internet. Turaco Treetops has a kids play room, you don’t have to worry about the children as you go off for the trek.

Enjoy the delicious meal and an overnight at Turaco Treetops.

After your breakfast, drive to the National Park Headquarters to meet your ranger guides for the day and begin you chimpanzee experience. Follow your ranger guides together with other trackers on an early morning trek into the forest to view wild chimpanzees as well as several other species of primates in their natural niche.

Whilst touring in the depths of the green forest you will be girdled by the chattering of the birds and actually anticipate seeing at least 5 or 6 other types of primates. The walking is fairly easy due to the well- maintained trails and reasonable flat terrain.

For the chimp trackers and researchers, this is the best experience which involves staying with the chimps from sun up to sun down and provides the occasion to really connect with the group and learn about the diurnal behaviours and different characteristics of the chimpanzees.

You’ll witness the chimpanzees within a few metres of these entertaining and veritably social hams, participating in their daily lives and passing through their day- to- day conditioning. Chimpanzees, our closest relatives are extremely risked with only an estimated 5000 remaining in Uganda.

After an hour with the chimpanzees, return to the lodge for a refreshment, your guide will pick you up to head to Tinka’s homestead for the traditional meal. Tinka is a community leader in Bigodi distract and he welcomes you into his home to enjoy a traditional Ugandan meal. Not only will you be able to try the Ugandan diet but Tinka will also describe each dish and give you a background information on the farming, harvesting, cooking methods of the traditional foods.

After the delicious meal, your driver will drop you off at the starting point of the Bigodi swamp walk. Bigodi Swamp walk. The Bigodi wetland sanctuary is a small but impressive wetland project that protects the Magombe swamp and is an important contribution to Ugandan conservation. It is run by the Kibale Association for Rural and Environmental Development (KAFRED) and all the funds received are used to support the local community projects in the Bigodi area. The trail offers one of the best guided bird trails in Uganda and gives walkers the attractive prospect of seeing various different primate species in just a few hours. The swamps are a haven for a huge number of bird and butterfly species and visitors can also expect to see at least 2 or 3 primate species

Return to the lodge after the walk for dinner and an overnight.

Overnight at Turaco Treetops safari Lodge.

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