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User Reviews of Kibale National Park (79 Reviews)

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4.5949 / 5 4.6 /5
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Female avatar icon Tracey United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: February 2011 Reviewed: Jun 3, 2011

Email Tracey  |  35-50 years of age

4 / 5 4 /5

Chimp trekking is so easy compared with Bwindi again lovely scenery

Male avatar icon Marcus Richardson Germany flag DE       Visited: September 2006 Reviewed: Sep 6, 2011

Email Marcus Richardson  |  35-50 years of age

4 / 5 4 /5
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A spine-tingling, magical place.

Avatar icon Jean-Pierre Visited: November 2008 Reviewed: Sep 10, 2011

See the Chimpanzees

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A great way to get close to primates in the wild at a fraction of the cost of seeing the gorillas. The chimps that we met were incredibly active. They swung from the trees above and ran through the forest floor around us. Our guide gave us an excellent insight into the hierarchy and activities of the group. The forest is dense and this makes it a little difficult to take pictures, but it also acts as a blind that allows you to get very close to the animals.

Male avatar icon Tomasz Poland flag PL       Visited: February 2011 Reviewed: Apr 5, 2012

Email Tomasz  |  35-50 years of age

Meeting with chimpanzees

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I was so excited seeing chimpanzees living without borders and boundaries - in freedom. As Kibale is a forest there was not too much light for filming of taking photographs but i managed to take some great photos.
Guide knew everything about wildlife and told us as much as he was able diuring our stay.
And the weather was so good during our stay there.
I would really recommend Kibale Forest as a great place to see wildlife in Uganda.

Male avatar icon Gerhard Mauracher Austria flag AT       Visited: August 2011 Reviewed: Apr 20, 2012

Email Gerhard Mauracher  |  50-65 years of age

4 / 5 4 /5
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we saw chimps in its own habitat, not enough time for birding or to lock for other monkeys

Female avatar icon originalribenababy United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: December 2010 Reviewed: Jun 9, 2012

Email originalribenababy  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

4 / 5 4 /5
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We were in Kibale with the view of tracking the chimpanzees, but our best experience was at Bigodi wetlands. We saw many primates there and they were given their own space. It felt a little like we were persuing the chimpanzees which felt a little exploitative.

Male avatar icon majzik viktor Switzerland flag CH       Visited: August 2010 Reviewed: Jul 12, 2012

Email majzik viktor  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

4 / 5 4 /5
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beautiful scenery of wildlife

Female avatar icon Trui Netherlands flag NL       Visited: September 2009 Reviewed: Oct 13, 2013

50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Uganda is amazing!

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Visiting Kibale was part of our trip in Uganda.
We really loved Kibale. We were surrounded by chimps! They were everywhere, playing, fighting, screaming, grooming and mating.
One female stayed in her nest in the tree.
She had a young baby and we think she just didn't want to come out to join the rest of the group.
They were noisy!
It was very impressive, a completely different exerience than the gorilla's.
Our guide was really good. He had lived in the forest for years during the Amin-regime and told us really everything about plants, trees etc.
We stayed in the primate lodge which is only 5 minutes away from the startingpoint for the chimp-tracking. So very convenient.
We liked the lodge. Stayed in one of the cottages.

Male avatar icon LB Switzerland flag CH       Visited: January 2015 Reviewed: Apr 18, 2015

20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

4 / 5 4 /5
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The main attraction is the Chimp trekking, which is a very nice and interesting thing to do, but also a bit touristy and comparably expensive.

Male avatar icon Callan Australia flag AU       Visited: February 2014 Reviewed: May 3, 2015

20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

4 / 5 4 /5
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Chimps were fascinating and the natural surrounds were really lovely. A nice stopover between Kampala and the seeing the gorillas.