Twenty kinds of primate. One forest holds thirteen.
Mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and golden monkeys, in a single country.
From 254 left on Earth, to more than a thousand.
In 1981 only 254 mountain gorillas remained anywhere in the world. Today there are more than a thousand, and about half live in Uganda’s Bwindi forest. They exist in only three countries on Earth, and you reach them on foot, close enough to hear one breathe.
Our closest cousin, in the forest of Kibale.
Uganda is home to around 5,000 chimpanzees. Track them in Kibale, in the Budongo forest, or down in the Kyambura gorge, a sunken green world inside Queen Elizabeth park. You hear them long before you see them.
Gold against green, in the bamboo.
High on the Virunga volcanoes lives the golden monkey, its coat a bright orange-gold. In Uganda there is one place to meet them, Mgahinga, where they move in troops led by a single male, and belong to almost nowhere else on Earth.
Come and explore Uganda.
Tell us what you would love to see, and we will plan the journey with you. The whole of East Africa is yours to explore with Bashem.