Gorilla Permits For Both Bwindi And Mghahinga Parks

Gorilla permits can only be purchased from Uganda Wildlife Authority headquarters in Kampala. This is the only legalized issuing body which offers gorilla tracking permits in Uganda. Any gorilla permit which is not offered by Uganda Wildlife Authority should be rendered an illegal permit and it does not permit you to go and track the mountain gorillas of Uganda in either of the parks. The gorilla permits offered to you do indicate the gorilla family of group to trek. The accommodation preferred is that   which must be near the gorilla group you are going to trek the next day. Booking or obtaining this gorilla permit can be through a tour agent or directly from Uganda Wildlife Authority. In both processes, you will need to either make direct calls or send emails. Expect to get instant feed backs from either Uganda Wildlife Authority or  the tour and travel company which you might have chosen to  book for  you the gorilla permit.

During your reservations for gorilla trekking or tracking, you will need to consider a full day of travel from Uganda’s capital Kampala to the national park of Bwindi. This calls for proper planning as the journey is not short. Depending of your travel itinerary, you will have stopovers to buy yourself food or a drink. You need to book and pay for your accommodation as you pay for your gorilla permit from the Uganda Wildlife Authority. When you are paying for a gorilla permit, you need to give the exact dates you intend to travel because, it’s these date which will have to appear on your gorilla permit.

After you have made payments, Uganda Wildlife Authority will make you a tentative booking for you until   your transfer goes through. This transfer takes about 7 days. When you are wiring the money, you will instruct your bank to deduct on the money you bank off the bank charges from you so that the money for obtaining the gorilla permit is not tampered with. This should be so because if the money you sent is less then you will not be able to obtain the gorilla permit. It is a fixed pay whereby you need to pay 600 USD fixed to obtain a gorilla permit. When you are booking a gorilla permit through a tour and travel operator in Uganda you need to do it through a genuine tours and travel company because some tour and travel companies are not genuine tour operators.

To some tourists obtaining gorilla permits has been tedious to them. Not only is it tedious but also very tiresome when using a tours and travel company and instead have preferred to get it direct from the Uganda Wildlife Authority. This is because; tour and Travel Company usually put an extra charge which scares off the tourists from using the tours and travel companies.

Unlike for the republic of Rwanda, the gorilla permits in Uganda cost 600 USD, while those in Rwanda cost 750 USD. This therefore means that the gorilla permits of Rwanda are more expensive as compared to those in Uganda.  Therefore, tracking the gorillas in Uganda will make you save some money which will be used to do some other things on your African safari.

You can participate in Chimpanzee tracking experience. This also means that you will you will have to obtain a chimpanzee tracking permit.  This activity is widely carried out in Kibale forest national park where there are habituated groups of chimpanzees for viewing.  These permits are also issued by Uganda Wildlife Authority in Kampala and they have to be booked in advance