Chimpanzee Trekking

After a long cross country trip from Jinja to Kibale, with a shopping stop in Kampala, we arrived at a lovely campsite in tea plantation countryside. We did an afternoon trek in Kibale Forest to a group of Chimpanzees. We found a group high in the treetops and waited for one of them to come down. Then we tracked him to an area where he was taking his afternoon rest. We spent about an hour with him and then we radioed the other half of our group and called them over to our location so that they could see him too. Then we went back to the area that we had originally heard the group in the treetops and more Chimps had come down to the forest floor. We saw the Alpha Male being groomed by one of the females and also a pair of little guys playing. One thing that can't be adequately described is the sound the Chimps make in the forest when they start vocalizing. It's so loud that you'd think that you were in a small room rather than out in the open forest. We also saw a troop of about 80 baboons, but in the forest they are much more shy than they are out in the open Savannah.



Just a yawn