Kibale Accommodation

Location: Kabarole district, Western Uganda

Kibale National Park is located in the western Uganda covering an area of 776 km2 and ranges between 1,100m – 1,600m to protect the moist evergreen rainforest. The park was gazette in 1993, from the Kibale Forest reserve and the Kibale Forest Corridor Game Reserve. The most popular activity in Kibale is the Kanyanchu Primate walk, to seek the 13 species and a good diversity of diurnal monkeys are always encountered with the stars being the chimpanzees.

Considered to be one of the best safari destinations in Africa for chimpanzee trekking and has the highest number and diversity of primates in East Africa.

Kibale is accessible from Kampala a 5 hr 39min drive (196 mi), a 40mins drive (19.3 mi) south-east of Fort Portal town. The forest predominately covers the central and northern parts of the park on the raised Fort Portal plateau, with its highest tip at the park’s northern tip.

The vegetation offers different varieties of wildlife habitat ranging from the moist evergreen forest along the Fort Portal plateau, through the dry tropical forest and the woodland and savanna along the rift valley floor. Around Kanyanchu, which is the central part of the park is the high forest consisting of a mixture of evergreen trees and deciduous with the evergreen species being dominant.

The vegetation rises to over 55m establishing 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 having registered 351 species of trees in the park.

Chimpanzees are over 1,450 individuals living here, in addition Kibale is home to the uncommon L’Hoest’s monkeys, East Africa’s biggest population of the endangered red colobus monkeys, the black & white colobus, red tailed monkeys, blue monkeys, olive baboons, grey cheeked mangabeys, bush babies as well as potto and many others.

A number of other species found here though hardly seen include duikers, elephants, bush pigs, leopards, buffaloes, some reptiles, amphibians and a number of butterflies.

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