Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best destinations in Africa for chimpanzee trekking safaris and has got the highest number and diversity of primates in East Africa. The park has got 13 number of primates including chimpanzees living with in its 795km of land cover with the most beautiful and most diversified tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda. The forest covers predominate in the central and northern part of the park on Fort portal plateau. The park is one of the best safari destination in Africa for chimpanzee tracking

The national park is located in the western part of Uganda about 348km from Kampala and about 26km south east of the beautiful town of fort portal. This is one of Uganda’s most lovely places to explore. Its located close to the serene Ndali Kasenda crater area and it takes a half day’s drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Rwenzori Mountains & Semuliki National parks and the Toro Semliki Wildlife Reserve. Kibale borders Queen Elizabeth National Park and Collectively these areas protect a 180km long migration corridor for wildlife that extends from the remote southern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Ishasha to Sebitoli in northern Kibale.

The park has got different varieties of wildlife habitat that range from the most evergreen forest along the Fort portal plateau, then through the dry tropical forest, and then to the woodland and savanna along the rift valley floor. In the central part of the park, around Kanyanchu, the high forest consists of a mixture of evergreen trees and deciduous with the evergreen species being so dominant. The vegetation here includes herbs, ferns, shrubs, broad leaved forest grasses as well as 351 tree species.