Cycling Tour Kibale Forest National Park
Cycling tour in Kibale Forest National Park is done in accompany of our expert guides on mountain bikes. Visitors ready to do a cycling tour around Kibale, are required to hire mountain bikes or come along with their own.
The cycling usually starts from your lodge, so, feel free to let us know know about your lodge. That is where our guides can find you to start this adventure. Be ready for a sportive 2-4 hour tour with some climbing altitude surrounded by swaying trees and scenic crater lake views. This is an environment that awakens a vibrant energy within you.
More About Cycling Tour in Kibale
While on a cycling tour in Kibale, cyclists will explore the surroundings of Kibale Forest National Park on mountain bikes. You will weave through the village and farm lands of Nyinambuga villages. Depending on your fitness, you can bike through over 5 crater lakes in 2 hours.
The journey sketch is approximately 16kms long, covering 5 to 7 crater lakes. The idea is to have good information from the guide about the surrounding area. This can take between 3 – 4 or 5hrs, but you can decide on how many hours to stop looking at your other commitments. Guides are always flexible. During the cycling tour, the speed and the reach is dependent on the weather of the day.
You will traverse from the lowest crater lake at 1,404m altitude and the highest crater lake at 1,608m. This is known as the top of the world. Kibale Forest National Park is believed to be connected with all elements of nature, from the popular chimpanzees to many other primate species and many beautiful bird species. Visitors can book their chimpanzee habituation experience or simply walk to Bigodi wetland sanctuary, a hub for plant life and butterflies.
Many guests extend their experience in the Pearl of Africa by continuing further south to Queen Elizabeth National Park for a Kazinga channel boat safari. This is where you will also witness a variety of wildlife along the shores of the channel connecting Lakes Edward and George. You may also choose to simply encounter our closest cousins in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park by simply booking a gorilla trekking tour, and then come face to face with the mountain gorillas..
