Discover Primate Paradise: Chimpanzee Safari Tours in Uganda

Chimpanzee trekking is not only fascinating, but a lot of fun. It’s often a more active experience than gorilla trekking, which involves adopting a very submissive pose while in the presence of these forest giants. Chimps tend to move around more, and you can feel like a child on an adventure following them through the forest.Further more,Chimps are  one of  our  closest relatives  around 98 percent of their DNA with humans .This would be fun if you are the kind of person that loves hanging out with your relatives.

During chimpanzee trekking, you will be walking up and down changing altitudes, due to this it is advisable to wear layers and bring an additional outfit to change into. So you can take a layer off when you get hot and add one when you get cold. Lightweight waterproof clothing, Clothing in greens, khakis, and dark colors to blend in with the forest ,Long-sleeve top (wear one and bring a spare), Long bottoms , Long hiking socks or Gaiters and Hiking boots.

Some tours offer the chance to take part in a habituation experience, which involves spending the day with less habituated groups (although this is never guaranteed), as part of the process of getting them ready for tourists to watch them. Non habituated chimps would have disappeared into the forest long before you could see them, but this process which takes at least six years, slowly, slowly reassures them that humans do not pose a threat. Kibale issues eight permits per day for chimp habituation.

Most people say that the habituation experience is more immersive . It is usually   a full day, from when the chimps get up in the morning and leave their nest to when they make their nest again for the night. As the communities you track are wilder, you can’t get as close, the chimps are more skittish and sighting chances are lower. It’s a long day, too – some people bail out in the afternoon to go and get a beer.

Chimpanzees stay in groups of 10 – 100 members. They can baby sit each other’s’ young, groom one another. The female Chimpanzees baby sit the young ones for only four years, At four years the chimpanzee becomes independent.

Kibale National Park boasts with around 1,450 individuals of Chimpanzees, from these about 4 families were Formed that is Kanyanchu Chimpanzee group – this is the easiest group to track, It has been tracked since 1993, Kanyawara Group having about 50 -60 chimpanzees, Sebitoli Chimpanzee Community, this is mainly set for research and then one other group is found in the middle of Kibale national Park with about 200 Chimpanzees.