Kibale Forest National Park 
The Park lies east of the Rwenzori on the edge of the Rift Valley between Fort Portal and Queen Elizabeth National park. It is well known for its 560kmn primate- rich tropical forest. The forest contains 13 primates including the remarkable 9 diurnal species such as the Chimpanzee, Baboon, Grey-Cheeked Mangabey, Red Colobus, Black and White Colobus, L’hoest’s, Red tailed, Vervet and the Blue Monkey. Buffaloes and Elephants are also present though they are rarely seen during the ay time. Kibale forest is well-known for the great variety of primates including man’s closest living relative the Chimpanzees.
Location; The Park is located in the western region of the country 30km away from Fort Portal town.
Size; Kibale forest National Park is approximately on the land of 795km.Kibale National Park contains one of the most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda.
Tourism activities
Chimpanzee tracking
This is the main tourism activity taking place in Kibale forest National Park. The activity takes place in Kanyanchu river camp which is 30km south of Fort Portal. The habituated groups of the chimpanzees have been tracked since 1993and the chances of finding them are very many. The activity lasts for 2-3 hours.
Bird watching
This is carried out in the Bigodi wetlands and it is because the park is a home to 325 variety of bird species, including 6 that are native to the Albertine Rift destination, such as the dusky crimson wing, black-capped apalis, blue-headed sunbird, collared apalis, red-faced woodland warbler and purple-breasted sunbird, the green breasted pitta, African pitta, black bee-eater, Abyssinian groundthrush, yellow spotted nicator, little greenbul, black-eared ground thrush, brownchested alethe, yellow rumped tinker bird, blue-breasted kingfisher, and the crowned eagle.
Other mammals are present, although they are rarely seen. These include forest elephants, buffaloes, leopards, bush pig and duiker, lions, warthogs, reptiles and amphibians as well as a colorful variety of butterflies.
Nature/forest walks. This is done with in the famous Kibale forest.
Village walks. This involves visiting the local community that surrounds the park. The people living around Kibale National Park are mostly the Batoro and Bakiga. The Batoro are native to the region while the Bakiga are just immigrants from the thickly populated southwestern part of the country.
Accommodation
- Kanyanchu Tourist Camp
- CVK (Crater Valley Kibale) Resort Beach Lodge
- Ndali Lodge.
- The Rwenzori View Guesthouse
- Primate Lodge.
- Nyinabulitwa Country Resort & Safari Camp
- Kibale Forest Camp
- Chimp guest house
- Chimp nest camp
