Ten ways to spend real time with African primates, from a single protected hour with mountain gorillas to multi-day combination safaris. Every tour below is run by trackers and guides who work in these…
Mountain gorilla trekking is the tour most people mean when they picture an African primate safari. You hike into the high-altitude forest…
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Habituation is the process of getting a wild gorilla family comfortable enough with human presence to be visited safely, and it takes…
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Kibale National Park in Uganda holds the highest chimpanzee density in East Africa and is usually the first stop for this tour,…
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Kibale's habituation program, based around the Sebitoli and Bigodi areas, lets a small number of visitors join researchers from sunrise until the…
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Golden monkeys live in large, noisy troops in the bamboo zone of the Virunga volcanoes, shared between Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park and…
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Not every primate encounter needs a permit or a pre-dawn start. Guided nature walks through forests like Bwindi's Buhoma trails or Nyungwe's…
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Away from the rainforest, savannah baboons live in large, highly structured troops across the open plains of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda's savannah…
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Standard trekking permits give you a fixed window, which is not always enough time to get the shot you want. Our photography-focused…
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Uganda and Tanzania both make this pairing easy: a gorilla or chimpanzee trek in the forest, followed by several days chasing elephants,…
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This tour trades trekking intensity for access: visits to research stations, ranger patrol briefings, and sanctuaries like Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in…
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