Chimpanzee trekking and wildebeest migration safari – what to expect : A chimpanzee trekking and wildebeest migration safari is a safari that will give you a chance to trek the chimpanzees in their habitat and also experience the wildebeest migration in the river mara. Because of the wildebeest migration this safari, is specifically timed during one or two seasons when migration is expected to happen.
The combination of this safari is quite unique and unusual because most people are acquainted with the mountain gorillas so would prefer to have a combined safari with the gorillas because gorillas are more famous. However, the chimpanzees give you a similar experience if not equal to that of the gorillas, the only difference here is that you will be seeing chimpanzees instead of the gorillas.
Well, this combined Chimpanzee trekking and wildebeest migration safari will have some or more of these things listed below.
You will definitely see the chimpanzees and wildebeests and many more animals especially in the maasai mara area.
This safari will take place in Uganda and Kenya. In Uganda at the Kibale National Park the primate capital where you will see all the chimpanzees you want to see and in Kenya at the maasai mara game reserve where the wildebeest migration takes places.
Your safari will happen between the months of July and October because these are the wildebeest migration months. For chimpanzee trekking the chimps are in their habitat all year round, that’s why its not a thing to plan around them. Any time you want to visit them they will be in the habitat.
The trip will start in Uganda, where you will land at Entebbe International Airport and then transfer about 6 to 7 hours to western Uganda at the Kibale National Park; this journey can be shorter if started in Kampala.
The day you arrive in Kibale National Park, you will have a leisure afternoon, eat, move around if you want and then rest for the night. You will be up early the next day, have breakfast and then head to the park head quarters for a briefing before you enter the forest for your chimpanzee trekking experience.
Afte the brief you will, will enter the forest with you trekking guide and group mates. You will spend about 2 to 3 hours trekking and then you will find the chimpanzees with whom you will spend at least an hour observing them and enjoying their presence.
After you will exit the forest and head back to the park for the rest of your day activities or rest. In this park, other activities you can do include but not limited to bird watching, nature walks, community visits and many other activities.
When your time in Kibale National Park is done, you will travel back to Entebbe through Kampala and at Entebbe you will get your connecting flight to Kenya Nairobi. When you get to Nairobi you will have a day to enjoy the Kenya’s capital before you transfer to Maasai Mara Game reserve where you will have the rest of your safari.
When you arrive at Maasai mara you will spend your arrival day at leisure, just enjoying the ambience of the park and the surrounding. In the next days that’s when you will have the maasai mara experience from game drives to see the big five lions, leopards, buffaloes, rhinos, elephants and other animals’ giraffes, antelopes, cheetahs, impalas, elands and many more. You will also enjoy activities like bird watching, hot air ballon experience, nature walks, maasai mara community visit and others.
After experiencing all that you will then go down to the Mara River, where you will camp for a couple of days just enjoying the spectacular show of the wildebeest, zebras and antelopes escaping predators and crossing the mara river to the other side. After you days at the Mara, you will conclude you time there and head on to something else.
