2 Days Kibale Chimpanzee Trekking Safari

2 Days Kibale Chimpanzee Trekking Safari

Itinerary Overview

This short but rich adventure brings you face to face with our closest wild relatives (chimpanzees) in their natural habitat. In just two days, you’ll travel to Kibale Forest National Park—Uganda’s primate capital—for an intimate chimpanzee trekking experience that shall give you an ultimate satisfaction. If you shave a short on time but longing for connection, wonder, and the raw energy of the rainforest’s primates, this adventure is exactly for you.

This itinerary can be perfectly combined with other destinations such as Queen Elizabeth National Park, Bwindi, Lake Bunyonyi, Semuliki and Lake Mburo. Get int ouch and let’s make this a reality.

Summary Itinerary

• Day 1: Transfer from Kampala/Entebbe to Kibale Forest – Bigodi Wetlands Walk
• Day 2: Chimpanzee Trekking – Return to Kampala/Entebbe

Day 1: Into the Green – Welcome to Kibale Forest

Your journey begins early from Kampala or Entebbe. As you leave the city behind, the landscape unfolds into rolling hills, crater lakes, and sleepy roadside towns. By early afternoon, you arrive in Kibale Forest, where the air is cool, the trees tall, and every shadow seems to whisper with life.

Later, stretch your legs on the Bigodi Wetlands Walk—a guided nature walk through papyrus-lined trails and elevated boardwalks. Colobus monkeys leap between fig trees. Birds call from every direction. And locals share stories about the plants and creatures that call this swamp home.

As night falls, your lodge settles into stillness, surrounded by the breathe of crickets and forest frogs.

Accommodation near Kibale Forest:

• Budget: Kibale Forest Camp
• Standard: Isunga Lodge / Turaco Treetops
• Luxury: Kyaninga Lodge / Primate Lodge Kibale

Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 2: Chimpanzee Trekking – Echoes in the Forest

Before sunrise, you sip a quick cup of tea and head into Kibale National Park. The forest feels ancient—dense with vines, filtered light, and the echo of distant calls.

Your ranger leads the way, after briefing you with Chimpanzee trekking do’s and donts, tips, clues: a knuckle print here, a half-eaten fig there. Then, you hear it—the whoop of a chimp echoing through the canopy.

Suddenly, they’re all around you. One crashes through branches overhead. Another pauses mid-chew to study you with eyes that feel uncannily familiar. A baby clings to its mother’s belly. A dominant male watches, unblinking.

For one magical hour, you’re in their world and have the whole time to sobserve them feed, play and relate. And it’s loud, social, messy, and completely unforgettable.

After your trek, enjoy lunch and begin the scenic return to Kampala or Entebbe, arriving in the evening—with forest dust on your shoes and primate voices in your memory.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Two Days. One Forest. One Primal Connection.
It’s not just about seeing chimps—it’s about feeling the forest breathe and remembering that we’re not so different after all.