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Andrea Gunderson
US
Visited:
June 2025
Reviewed: Jun 25, 2025
Email Andrea Gunderson | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We did the chimpanzee trekking and loved it. We had the best staff at Kibale Forest Lodge. I had mentioned to the staff that I wanted to try Jackfruit and sugar cane. They made the jackfruit appear at supper that night and the sugarcane the next morning with breakfast! Outstanding service!!
Douglas M. Holden
KR
Visited:
July 2025
Reviewed: Jul 30, 2025
Email Douglas M. Holden | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Cathy Broderick
US
Visited:
September 2025
Reviewed: Sep 22, 2025
Email Cathy Broderick | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Sia Maniatacos
CA
Visited:
January 2026
Reviewed: Feb 2, 2026
Email Sia Maniatacos | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Brian Ralph
US
Visited:
February 2026
Reviewed: Mar 15, 2026
Email Brian Ralph | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Kibale was great, had a wonderful chimpanzee experience. Lovely stay at the Chimpundu, wish we had more days at that lodge.
The town was ok, and the swamp walk was fine. It seemed more like another activity to fill the time. It was nice to walk around, but I wouldn't do it again.
Kent MacElwee
Visited:
January 2014
Reviewed: Apr 21, 2015
Chimpanzee trekking
My wife and I did an all-day Chimp trek. So fascinating. You spend a day with them, as they travel through the forest, you share their daily routine. You see them making choices, resting, eating, drumming on trees (!), interacting. The trek itself is flat, you cover a good area, but not too hard (MUCH easier than Gorilla trekking, which I also recommend). Chimpanzees are our closest relative.. see them in the wild, in their natural habitat, up close.
danjamo
UG
Visited:
May 2015
Reviewed: Jun 15, 2015
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Incredible primate experience!
We visited Kibale Forest in May 2015 and the main reason for our visit was to see chimpanzees, we were certainly not disappointed! The experience was outstanding and the quality of the guiding was second to none. As someone who has visited all of Uganda's National Parks, I would say that seeing the chimpanzees in Kibale was up there with the best experiences in the country and I would highly recommend it to anyone.
We did the trek on a clear sunny day, which apparently helped with the viewing of Chimpanzees. We were lucky to find 3 of them within 5 minutes (having driven for 10 minutes away from the starting point, due to the chimps being some distance away). We then tracked them for about 30 minutes and found the rest of the group, around 25 individuals, whom we were able to get close to and follow for a good period of time. The walk is through fairly thick forest and quite hilly in places. We were with a mixed group, but the guide set a pace appropriate for all.
Sputnikboy
IT
Visited:
February 2013
Reviewed: Apr 16, 2015
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful place
Even without a guide it was rather easy for me to spot quite few red tails and a couple of colobous; in the afternoon, on the other side of the pond in front of my tree house, I could hear crushing sounds and could see the trees shaking: apparently there were a couple of forest elephants lingering in the area. Given the thick vegetation I couldn't really see much of them but it was a cool experience. At night, I could hear
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a group of monkeys coming onto mthe roof and deciding that it was a good place to rest! Fantastic, and it was only my first day!The chimp tracking was demanding since it was in the afternoon and not in the morning: it took almost three hours to track the group but when we managed to find them, it was unbelievable. The females and the babies were in the higher tree branches, while the alpha male was keeping an eye on us. At a certain point while the group started to move, the male came down the tree and started to walk on the ground in the opposite direction, almost trying to attract us away from the females and babies. No wonder they are considered the most intelligent animal in nature. I managed to take a lot of pictures, but best of all were the countless memories I have.
All in all I'd return to Kibale in a heartbeat, even among Uganda highlights I think it's underrated: I'd put over Kibale only the Rwenzori mountains and Bwindi NP.