According to the Uganda Wildlife
Authority Uganda gorilla permits have been increased to USD 700.00 per person
per trek effective 1st July 2020. This development was announced during a
consultative meeting organized by AUTO the association of Uganda Tour
operators. All foreign non residents will pay USD 700 per gorilla permit Effective
1st July 2020 to spend one hour with mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable
National Park or Mgahinga National Park. Foreign residents with a working
permit will pay USD 600 per gorilla permit per trek while East Africans in
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi as well as Southern sudan will have to
pay 25000 shillings.
While Uganda gorilla permits have
been increased to USD 700 for foreign none residents from USD 600 and USD 600 for
foreign residents from USD 500, this permit entitles one to visit or add on a
visit to Semiliki national park or Mountain Elgon National Park. (details of
this to come shortly). This has been done in order to encourage tourists
visiting Uganda to spend more days and time in Uganda. Basically tourists have
been visiting Uganda for three days just to see mountain gorillas in Bwindi
impenetrable National Park but now they will have to look at an option of
extending their stay in Uganda by visiting either Semiliki National Park or
Mount Elgon National Park.
Even though there is an increment
in the price of Uganda gorilla permits. Uganda still remains the most
affordable and safe gorilla trekking destination more than the Democratic
Republic of Congo which is the most affordable of all the three gorilla
trekking nations but is not safe to visit and Rwanda whose gorilla permits are
at USD 1500.00 per person per trek in Volcanoes National Park.
Park Entry Fees
Gorilla
permits from both Uganda and Rwanda include park entry fees for their
respective national parks which include Bwindi impenetrable National Park,
Mgahinga National Park and Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda respectively. They
also include spending one hour with mountain gorillas while observing their
behaviors and taking photographs a process we call habituation. These fees also
include services of an armed ranger guide and trackers who help to guide the trekkers.
Security at the National Parks is provided by armed UWA rangers as well as
tourism police in the case of Uganda. Transport and accommodation is excluded
in Uganda and Rwanda gorilla permits.
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