Kibale Forest National Park is a tropical rain forest protected area located in the south of Fortportla town. The national park covers up to 760 square kilometers and is the nearest of the rain forest national parks in Uganda. Kibale in famous for its primate numbers and is most visited for Chimpanzee tracking.
Kibale has two rainy seasons and two dry seasons from December to February and June to September. The average temperature in this park goes up to 250C.
This National park like any other is home to wild life and the residents of this park include red-tailed monkey, diademed monkey, blue monkey, white cheeked mangabey, olive baboon, chimpanzee, black, white and red colobus, bushbuck, Harvey’s red duiker, blue duiker, Uganda kob, genet, bush pig, and African civet.
You may as well see buffalo, waterbuck, hippo, warthog, and giant forest hog, Elephants if lucky enough because they have become rare.
While in Kibale Forest National Park you expect to engage in activities like forest hikes, Chimp tracking, primate walk, long distance walk, hiking, bird watching, Chimp Habituation, nocturnal walks, village walks among others.
Tourists to Kibale national park spend their night in the available accommodation units like Primate Lodge, Mantana luxury tented camps, Ndali lodge, Rwenzori view guest house, and others in Fort portal town.
Kibale is accessible by road from Kampala using Public or private mean with the help of tour operators.
