Short Chimpanzee Trekking Tours

Short Chimpanzee Trekking Tours – Why not discover the human-like apes in a few days?

Short Chimpanzee Trekking Tours: Travelers dreaming of an encounter with chimpanzees can engage in short tours to either Uganda or Rwanda. In these short tours, travelers take on a tour of 2 to 3 days to any of the chimpanzee safari destinations and create everlasting memories. Chimpanzees are large primates living in families within their habitat. They are considered the closest cousins to men since they share a DNA of 98%.

The tracked chimpanzees are usually first habituated for them to get used to the human presence. The habituation process takes about 2 years. You can be part of this process on a short chimpanzee trekking tour.

Short Chimpanzee Trekking Tours

If you want to see chimpanzees, you must acquire a valid chimpanzee trekking permit through a reputable tour operator like Native Africa Tours. A chimpanzee trekking permit is a legal document that allows travelers to see chimpanzees in Uganda and Rwanda. Chimpanzee trekking tours are done in both Uganda and Rwanda. In Uganda, short chimpanzee trekking tours take place in many places. These include; Kibale Forest National Park, Kyambura Gorge, Budongo Forest Reserve, Kalinzu Forest, and Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. On the other hand, short chimpanzee trekking tours in Rwanda can be done in Nyungwe Forest National Park. Therefore, travelers have to choose any of these destinations to visit for their short chimpanzee trekking tours.

Top destinations for short chimpanzee trekking tours

Short chimpanzee trekking tour in Uganda is done in several destinations These include;

Kibale Forest National Park

The park is located in western Uganda, covered with moist green forests and diverse landscapes. It has the highest number of chimpanzees. In the park, there are over 13 species of primates that travelers on their safaris, and this park is considered to have the highest number of chimpanzees in Africa. The chimpanzee trekking in this park is done in two sessions that is to say morning session and afternoon session.

There are over 56 chimpanzee trekking permits for the morning session and 36 for the afternoon session. A chimpanzee trekking permit in Kibale National Park costs 250 USD for foreign nonresidents, 200 USD for foreign residents, and 180,000 UGX for the rest of Africa. Our team of safari experts is available to help you reserve your chimpanzee trekking permit.

Kyambura Gorge

Kyambura Gorge is located in Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda. the park overlooks the snow-capped Rwenzori mountains. Kyambura Gorge is part of the Great Rift Valley. Anyone interested in seeing the chimpanzees can easily visit the gorge and spend time in the presence of the magical playful apes. Kyambura Gorge has fewer habituated chimpanzees for travelers to track compared to Kibale Forest National Park.

There are about 16 chimpanzee trekking permits that travelers can acquire to see the chimpanzee. These permits have morning and afternoon sessions for the travelers to encounter with the chimpanzee. A chimpanzee trekking permit in this park costs about 100 USD for foreign nonresidents, 50 USD for foreign residents, and 50000 UGX for East African residents. The chimpanzee trekking in the gorge excludes the park entrance fees which are paid separately on the day of tracking the chimpanzee. The short chimpanzee trekking tours in the park take about 2 to 3 days for travelers to engage in the tracking of the chimpanzee.

Kalinzu Forest Reserve

This is the second best place to see the chimpanzee in Uganda where travelers on their Uganda safari for the short chimpanzee tours can visit and encounter. In this forest reserve, there are over 320 species, and about 70 of these are habituated for tracking. In this forest reserve, travelers are supposed to book in time the chimpanzee trekking permit. The chimpanzee trekking permit to the forest reserve costs about 50 USD for foreign nonresidents,40 USD for foreign residents, and 30000 UGX for East African residents.

Budongo Forest Reserve

Budongo Forest Reserve is located within the heart of the Murchison Falls National in northwestern Uganda. The forest reserve is under the management of the Jane Goodall Institute for Research. In the forest, there are over two sessions of the tracking of the chimpanzee where the morning session starts at 0700 hours and the afternoon session starts at 1500 hours. Chimpanzee trekking in Rwanda is done in the Nyungwe Forest National Park in southwestern Rwanda. The park has about 3 habituated chimpanzee families that travelers can encounter during their short chimpanzee tours.

Nyungwe Forest National Park

Nyungwe Forest National Park has one of the oldest rainforests in Africa and it is a mountainous region neighboring the lake Kivu. The tracking of the chimpanzee in this park is quite challenging for travelers on their short chimpanzee tours. There are over 3 groups of chimpanzees that travelers can track on their safaris and they include the Cyamudongo group that lives in the Cyamudongo forest, the Uwinka group that is within the center of the park near the park headquarters, and the Gisovu group that is found in the lounge forest.

Tracking chimpanzees in Nyungwe National Park requires one to have booked a chimpanzee trekking permit. A Chimpanzee trekking permit costs 150 USD for foreign nonresidents, 75 USD for foreign residents, and 25 USD for East African residents. In the tracking of the chimpanzee, travelers are supposed to for the park entrance fees which include; 100 USD for foreign nonresidents, 60 USD for foreign residents, and 10 USD for East African residents. In this park, there are about 24 tracking permits for the chimpanzee.