Tracking chimpanzees on foot through Kibale, Nyungwe or Budongo. Noisier, faster and funnier than gorillas — they move, argue and feed overhead while you follow.
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Each of these is somewhere we run chimpanzee Trekking, with its own page.
Rwanda
One of the oldest rainforests in Africa, and a canopy walkway a hundred metres above the forest floor to see it from. Thirteen primate species live here, including chimpanzees and troops of several hundred Angolan colobus — the largest arboreal primate groups anywhere.
Rwanda
Rwanda's newest national park, gazetted in 2019 out of two remnant forests that were nearly logged out. It is a restoration project you can walk through: chimpanzees, golden monkeys and over two hundred bird species in forest that is being actively stitched back together.
Tanzania
The smallest national park in Tanzania, a strip of forest on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, and the place Jane Goodall spent fifty years studying chimpanzees. The troops here are habituated to a degree found almost nowhere else, which means close, unhurried time with them on foot.
Uganda
The Nile squeezes through a gap seven metres wide and drops forty-three metres, and the noise of it is the reason people come. Around the falls is Uganda's largest park: a boat trip to the base of them past hippo and crocodile, then game drives on the northern bank for lion, elephant and Rothschild's giraffe.
Uganda
The best chimpanzee tracking in East Africa, in a forest holding thirteen primate species. Around 1,500 chimps live here and the habituated communities are relaxed enough that you watch them feed, groom and argue overhead rather than catching a glimpse and losing them.
Uganda
The largest mahogany forest in East Africa, on the road into Murchison Falls, with a chimpanzee community that has been tracked since the nineties. Stopping here turns the drive north into a morning in the forest rather than six hours in a vehicle.
Uganda
Uganda's oldest wildlife reserve, in the Albertine Rift where East African savannah meets Congolese rainforest — so the bird list reads like two countries at once. The Sempaya hot springs boil hard enough to cook an egg, and the Batwa still live on the reserve edge.
Prices are per person. Any of these can be adjusted to give the activity more time.
3 Day
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10 DAYS
Chimpanzee trekking also starts in the morning and the activity is conducted in groups of a maximum of eight (8) people just as it is with gorilla trekking.
Say so when you get in touch and we will build the route around it, rather than squeezing it in on an afternoon when the light is wrong.
