The price for kibale chimp permits has been increased from $250 to $300.
Starting on July 1, 2020, for the next two years, the price of a Kibale chimpanzee permit will be $300, up from $250. At a gathering of stakeholders held at Hotel Africana, this increase was disclosed. A total of USD300 per permit per trek will be required of all visitors to Uganda from July 1, 2024, due to the addition of an additional USD50.
Chimpanzee excursions in Kibale Forest National Park have become more popular, leading to a price rise. Kibale National Park is still one of the greatest spots in Africa to witness habituated chimpanzee colonies, as well as eleven other monkey species and a plethora of birds that call this remnant tropical rain forest home.
If you’re looking for a place to go chimpanzee trekking or see them in the wild, go no further than Kibale National Park in western Uganda. In the beginning, when the number of chimpanzee permits was 250, the demand for chimpanzee trekking was so high that the Uganda Wildlife Authority had to implement three shifts daily to accommodate all of the visitors who wanted to see these habituated groups of wild chimpanzees.
They also claim that the little price increase would help with chimpanzee conservation in Kibale via funding research and salaries for all the people working to keep these amazing apes in Uganda.
While chimpanzee permits in Kibale have gone up in price from $250 to $300, those in other chimpanzee trekking locations, such Kyambura Gorge, have stayed at $50. Visitors to Queen Elizabeth National Park who are interested in chimpanzee trekking may want to add a stop to Kyambura Gorge to their schedule.
For reservations made prior to July 1, 2024, what will happen?
The price of Kibale chimpanzee permits has been raised from $250 to $300, however this change only applies to reservations made after July 1, 2024, and not before. Get in touch with Katland Safaris right now if you want to take advantage of the $250 price tag and get your chimpanzee permits before they sell out.
Through its umbrella group, tour operators in Uganda are also attempting to have the price of these chimpanzee licenses waived for everyone who books theirs before the deadline. That is to say, the previous pricing should still be valid for August chimpanzee permits reserved in 2019 or early 2020. If this passes, it will be the result of ongoing discussions. Safaris with Katland will be the ones to inform you first.
UWA modifies protocol for reserving chimpanzee licenses.
All chimpanzee licenses purchased at 30% must be replenished within 90 days before to the scheduled trekking date, according to the Uganda Wildlife Authority’s proposal. At once, tour operators and individuals could add chimpanzee permits whenever they wanted, even at the last minute.
However, this was soon changed owing to high demand and a lack of available permits. The fact that some tour companies have been hoarding these chimpanzee permits and then releasing them when they are no longer required has also come to light. To avoid all of the aforementioned hassles, Katland Safaris often requests that guests pay in full for their chimpanzee permits in advance.
Engage Katland Safaris for Your 2024 Kibale Chimpanzee Permit
Booking and securing your Kibale chimpanzee permits in advance is highly recommended at Katland Safaris, especially now that 2024 has arrived. Although obtaining a Kibale chimpanzee permit is easy and may be done on your own, the fact that it does not need going via the Uganda Wildlife Authority is rather unsettling. When customers book all-inclusive safaris to Rwanda and Uganda with Katland Safaris, we take care of reserving, booking, and securing Kibale chimpanzee permits on their behalf.
Giving Katland Safaris the precise dates of your intended visit to Kibale National Park for chimpanzee trekking is all that is required to book your Kibale chimpanzee permit. After that, we will verify whether there are any chimpanzee permits available on that specific day. We will inform you and give you an invoice once we confirm the availability.
You won’t have to wait for the money to reach our bank account to purchase and secure your Kibale chimpanzee permits; we’ll get to that as soon as you pay and scan and send us confirmation of payment. We do this to ensure that we don’t run out of space for chimpanzee permits due to the first-come, first-served policy and the three or four business days it takes for wired payments to show up in our bank account.
At a later time, when you have purchased and secured your Kibale chimpanzee permit, we will email you scanned copies of the receipts. When it’s time to print and distribute chimpanzee permission cards, we’ll also email you the corresponding receipts to verify that we’ve paid for them.
If you are interested in trekking chimpanzees in this forest in 2020, you should know that Kibale offers three sessions. The first two sessions are in the morning, while the third is in the afternoon. You could wind yourself scheduled for one of those three sessions—it all depends on the availability of permits and our customers’ preferences and interests.
Feel free to contact Katland Safaris via email with any queries you may have about the distribution of permits for chimpanzees in Kibale. So far, no one has been able to match our record of delivering up-to-date, accurate information on chimpanzee trekking in Uganda.
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Think carefully about the tour operator and permit provider you choose while arranging your trip to Uganda, and more specifically, Kibale National Park, to go chimpanzee trekking. Get in touch with an honest and reliable tour operator who won’t let you down. Safari reservations and TripAdvisor both give Katland Safaris great reviews and praise for their over a decade in the industry.
The Uganda Tourism Board, a government agency, has granted us a license and registered us with the Uganda Wildlife Authority. We are one of the few tour providers who have round-the-clock access to their database and system for booking chimpanzees.
The availability of chimpanzee permits may be checked at any time, day, or minute using this. Our company is an active and dedicated member of AUTO, the Ugandan organization of travel operators.
