Attractions in Kibale Forest National Park.
Kibale Forest national park also called Uganda’s known primate capital, is not only the home for the primates, but the park has various attractions that attract various tourists to the capital for the wonderful safari experience with African Vacation Safaris. Kibale forest national park is located in the south western part of the country that covers an area of about 795 square kilometers that lies at an altitude range of 1100 meters to 1600 meters. Kibale forest national park is such colourful destination with the remaining lowland and then the montane forests in the entire in Africa, with the every green forest that makes it as an important ecological system with the various attractions that is the animal species like the leopards, serval cats, bush pigs, and among others, bird species like olive long-tailed cuckoo, black bee-eaters, African Grey parrots and among others, butterflies and among many others.
On an African safari to Kibale Forest national park is such rewarding and exceptional that can be added to other magnificent safari destinations like Queen Elizabeth national and then Semuliki wildlife reserve, mountain Rwenzori national park that gives you an outstanding safari experience. Kibale forest national park has a quite number of the safari attractions that are highlighted here that makes the park to be the most high ranked as the popular safari destination in Uganda and Africa at large for the unforgettable safari memories.
Safari attractions in Kibale Forest national park.
Primates.
Kibale forest national park is a massive habitat for the primates in the entire Uganda with the high population of the chimpanzees which are over 1500 in number. The park is majorly covered by the thick forest cover with the huge and tall trees where the chimpanzees do inhabit, build their nests to rest from, feeding and among others. Minus the chimpanzees, Kibale forest national park is known as a home to over 13 stunning species of the primates that is L’Hoest’s monkeys, grey cheeked mangabey, and red tailed monkeys and among many others. On a Uganda safari, chimpanzees in Kibale forest national park offers the most outstanding chimpanzee tracking and then chimpanzee habituation experience that brings in various tourists to the park and the activities mostly take place at Kanyanchu. The park is a home to the nocturnal primates that makes it as the full package safari destination that includes the bush walks, pottos that can be spotted during the night forest walks.
Animal species.
Kibale forest national park is highly known as a home of other animal species besides the primates. The forest is a home to other animal species that do stay in the thick forests around the park. The animal species that are found in the park includes African palm civet, bush bucks, giant forest hogs, African elephants, sitatungas, marsh mongooses, bush pigs, warthogs, golden cats and among many others. When you visit Bigodi wetland sanctuary you will spot sitatungas, swam potters and various numbers of the elephants and among other animal species that can be spotted coming from Queen Elizabeth national park that is right next to Kibale forest national park.
Attractive vegetation.
Kibale forest national park has the most attractive moist evergreen and then the semi-deciduous forest cover that mostly has different habitats that is tropical forest, woodland and has over a total of 351 tree species, these tree species act as the habitats for the park’s primates, bird species and then the other animal species. The dominant vegetation type is the rainforest that covers over 1100 to 150 meters altitude with the vegetation transitions of the Afro-montane and then lowland forest. The park’s various tree species and some of these tree species includes the eucalyptus, pine trees, lovoa swynnertonni, cordia millenii, mahogany, ironwood, Ficus, Entandrophragma angolense and among many others. Other parts of the vegetation in the park includes the tolerant herbs, a variety of ferns, shrubs, broad leaved forest grasses and many others. The half of Kibale forest national park is 4500 hectares occupied by different vegetation with the moist evergreen forest in the northern part of the park and medium altitude with moist semi-deciduous at the lower altitudes in the south.
Bird species.
Kibale forest national park is the mostly known as an important birding site that is majorly blessed with the forests of the park that acts as habitats of over 375 beautiful bird species, that includes the endemic, migratory, forest bird species and among many others. Some of the bird species that are found in the park includes blue breasted kingfisher, little greenbul, yellow spotted Nicator, African grey parrot, black bee-eater, Olive long-tailed Cuckoo, western Tinker bird, Green breasted Pitta, Afep pigeon, Brown illadopsis, Cassin’s Spinetail, Black-capped apalis and among many others.
Ndali-Kasenda craters.
Ndali-Kasenda craters are fascinating safari attraction in Kibale forest national park that offers the perfect view to the tourists on a safari, these lakes are located close to the park and can be explored as an additional destination during your safari in Kibale forest national park. The Ndali-Kasenda craters are characterized by the series of the various stable and then the seasonal fresh water crater lakes with fresh water like Lake Nkuruba, Lake Lyantonde, lake Nyabikere, Lake Kifuruka, lake Mubiro, lake Nyanswinga, Lake Nyamasingiri, and Lake Kifuruka and among many others. During your visit to the lakes you will be enjoy the sightings of various features around that are impressive. These lakes have got the legend story behind their formation; that they were formed by Ndahura that was a Chwezi ruler during the time when he was fled from his kingdom after he was dethroned by his son Wamala.
Cultures.
Kibale forest national park is a wonderful African culture that is the park is majorly known and then surrounded by the two local groups of the people that is the Bakiga and batooro that inhabit near the park. On a Uganda safari with African Vacation Safaris, these communities offer the perfect African culture activities including the local dances and songs, sharing with them their ways of living, local crafts though their association in the names of Kibale association of the rural environment development and this offers the tourists with the unique experience during the safari.