Kyambura Gorge

KYAMBURA GORGE  


Kyambura Gorge – Kyambura Game Reserve located near Queen Elizabeth National Park is Africa’s only place you get to track Chimpanzees underground in a gorge – Kyambura is called “The Valley of Apes”  and probably the best place to see Chimps near Queen Elizabeth National Park.


kyambura gorgeKyambura gorge (or Chambura) is an astonishing piece of natures art located in the far-flung eastern corner of Uganda’s most popular national Park – Queen Elizabeth.

Kyambura Gorge is situated inside the Kyambura game reserve (156 sq. km) which is a buffer zone for the main Queen Elizabeth National park. The gorge is approximately 1 km wide and round about 100m deep and stretches through a distance of up-to 11km joining the popular Kazinga Channel.The Kazinga channel provides for the constant water flow of River Kyambura that flows through the gorge and Is a major source of water for all the gorge dwellers.

The gorge is home to Queen Elizabeth National park’s only habituated chimpanzees and other types of primates including the red-tailed monkey, black-and-white colobus, baboons and vervet monkeys probably the reason its called ” the valley of Apes”. Most popularly visitors to Kyambura come for chimp trekking experience and only take on other activities as an “Add-on”. Among the other things to do and see in Kyambura gorge is;

  • Bird watching in Kyambura Game Reserve.
  • Guided forest walks and hikes.


OUR SAFARI RECOMMENDATIONS THAT VISIT KYAMBURA GORGE 


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Visiting this spectacular gorge is an off-the-beaten-track experience. Not many tourists visit the gorge – probably one of the main reasons Realm Africa Safaris likes to add it to her 3 Days Queen Elizabeth Safari.

Interested in adding Chimp trekking in the Kyambura gorge, BirdWatching and or any other walks to your 3 Days Queen Elizabeth Safari, Please contact us.

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