6 Days | 5 Nights Primate Sequence
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There are 20 primate species in Uganda, consisting of 13 day-walking (diurnal) and seven nocturnal species. They flourish in the country’s tropical forest, making Uganda a nation with the highest concentration of primates on the continent. The list includes the mountain gorilla and chimpanzee with the most tourist attention and the latest discovery, the dwarf galago.
Most of the primates on the list are Old Wold Monkey species: the golden monkey, de brazza’s, black and white colobus, red colobus, potto, bushbaby, grey-checked mangabey, l’hoest’s monkey, red-tailed monkey, vervet, patas, baboon, and blue monkey.
In Uganda, tourists can have a more profound encounter with Africa’s primate species than any other African destination. The endangered mountain gorillas and naturalists’ expeditions.
On a trekking expedition, travelers are taken on a wilder experience with primates in their natural forests. Guided trekking adventures go out in the untamed jungles every day, escorted by local rangers, trackers, guides, and sometimes primatologists. They track a habituated primate group and spend a couple of restricted hours watching their behaviors, social structures, and familiar body formations.
The best places to watch Uganda’s great primate species are Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for the gorillas and Kibale National Park for the chimpanzee experience. The two national parks are also excellent for watching other small monkeys on a guided day or night forest walking excursion.
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Arrive at Entebbe International Airport where you will be transferred by your Pelican Tours and TravelSafaris driver guide to your hotel.
Early morning depart for a half day drive west via Mubende to Fort Portal, passing though the scenic countryside of Rwenzori Mountains. Known as the “Mountains of the Moon”, the Rwenzori mountain range in Central Africa is the source of the Nile River. We relax in the afternoon.
Overnight at Crater safari lodge (FB)
We enter Kibale Forest National Park Forest for primate viewing in the morning. We search for chimpanzees and other primates including phoestes, Red-Colobus, Blues, Red-tailed and grey cheeked Mangabey. After lunch, we visit to Bigodi swamp eco-tourism site and explore the areas rare and beautiful flora and fauna. A variety of bird species flourish among these trees.
Overnight at Crater safari Lodge (FB)
This morning, we will leave for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home to the few remaining mountain gorillas. Bird life and primate life in Bwindi is quite superb, and there is an incredible variety of flora. Once continuous with the forests of the Virunga Volcanoes (Dian Fossey’s stomping ground), Bwindi is now an ecological island, surrounded by cultivation on the rich volcanic soils.
Overnight at Bwindi lodge (FB)
We head to the park headquarters for a briefing from the Uganda Wildlife Authority before setting off to the forest see the gorillas. The ranger guides will take you through the forest to track gorillas, which can take from half an hour to five hours. A reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as a sturdy pair of walking shoes. If you have the afternoon free, you will take a guided village walk to see how the Ugandans live.
Overnight at Bwindi lodge (FB)
Early in the morning have breakfast at leisure and enjoy your by road back to Kampala while enjoying the magnificent views of the hills. (-/+08 hours) you will have a stop for lunch at a selected restaurant and later proceed to Entebbe for your Outbound flight.
