Uganda · East Africa
Kibale and the crater lakes.
Kibale has the densest chimpanzee population in Africa, and the crater-lake country around it is some of the prettiest in Uganda.
Photo Keith Kasaija / Unsplash
Chimpanzee tracking here is genuinely reliable, and the habituation experience — a full day with researchers rather than an hour with a group — is available for those who want it.
The Bigodi wetland next door is excellent for birds and monkeys, and the crater lakes make a comfortable base between the forest and Queen Elizabeth.
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Elsewhere in Uganda
- Bwindi Impenetrable ForestBwindi holds around half the world's mountain gorillas and is where most Ugandan itineraries are built to reach.
- Queen Elizabeth and IshashaQueen Elizabeth is Uganda's most visited savannah park, and the Ishasha sector in its south is known for lions that rest in fig trees.
- Murchison Falls and the northMurchison is where the Nile is forced through a gorge seven metres wide and falls into the Albert Nile below.
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