The COVID-19 epidemic affected global travel as well as chimpanzee trekking tourism in Uganda and those who had booked chimpanzee treks ahead not go on their treks and use the originally booked chimpanzee trekking permits for their dates. Many of them chose to ask for a refund of their money paid to ensure the chimpanzee permits in advance Uganda Wildlife Authority found not tenable at that point.

Many others were forced to cancel their chimpanzee trekking visits to Uganda to see chimpanzees in Kibale National Park. For those who had booked their chimpanzee trekking permits for Kibale National Park in advance and subsequently once you have your credit note processed you will use it to buy new chimpanzee permits up to a period of 31st December 2022.

Uganda Wildlife Authority provides an option to process credit notes for those in this regard. The following can help you handle credit note from Uganda Wildlife Authority -UWA for chimpanzee trekking permits.

What is a credit note from Uganda Wildlife Authority?

Uganda Wildlife Authority provided a credit note for the revoked chimpanzee permits with a refund; this statement may be used to make future reservations upon presentation.

Money kept by UWA in the credit note arrangement for chimp permits may be used for any product or service including admission fees and those items on sale during the promotional period that runs until June 30, 2021. Furthermore possible with the money on the credit note system is top-up on other current permits.

Rescheduling or converting permits bought at the former rate (USD 250) into credit notes will retain USD 250 as their rate. All requests for chimpanzee permit credit notes must either email or pass via the UWA central registration. Get in touch here; we will guide you properly.

Why is UWA let tour operators handle chimpanzee credit notes?

Due to several uncertainties and covid-19 constraints, Uganda Wildlife Authority is letting tour operators handle credit notes for them to conveniently manage the chimpanzee permits that were not utilized by visitors who did not come to Uganda. Most of the chimpanzee permits are bought via tour operators not directly to UWA, so it is easier for them to request and follow credit note inquiries.

To guarantee that permits for these customers canceled from the system at least seven days before the tracking date, tour operators must provide information of their clients for the permits booked in advance to the UWA Reservation Office.

How does a chimpanzee permit credit note get processed?

You will need to write a headed paper letter to Uganda Wildlife Authority, duly signed by the approved signatory, with details of chimpanzee permits you need to be canceled off the Uganda Wildlife Authority system as this will involve deleting the current permits from our system and keeping onto your money for future bookings.

As the chart below shows, the letter should disclose the specifics of the breakdown and totals. Kindly find attached an Excel file; furthermore, send it to UWA via email. Attach also the documentation proving payment for the relevant permissions.

Can one tour operator forward a credit note to another?

The Uganda Wildlife Authority made this decision based on internal financial management policies; hence, the tour companies with a credit note are advised to use these statements to purchase new permits and subsequently at their own liberty transfer these permits to any other tour operator; the name of the original tour company will not change in the Uganda Wildlife Authority System.

The time period allowed to process and utilize a chimpanzee permits credit note?

Once the UWA finance team settles, the chimpanzee permits will be deleted from their system and a credit note or bill will be sent to you for the stated amount, for use at a future period, not beyond December 31, 2022.

What is the protocol for Covid booking and cancellation under chimpanzee permits in Uganda?

You must have a chimpanzee permission if you are going for chimpanzee tracking; so, one who books a chimpanzee permit should be able to utilize it for the scheduled trip. When you miss the 0 to 8 day walk, the day of tracking and with this you do not obtain the return for the permits. Chimpanzee permit cancellation penalty and regulation in Uganda.

Due to the Corona Virus outbreak, which has caused both nations to relax their cancellation policies, chimpanzee permits cancellation policies have changed significantly for the past six months. In Uganda all affected chimpanzee treks have been given an opportunity to change their dates of trekking twice up to 2022 December. Get specifics by contacting us here.

What should you know about Uganda’s chimps’ trekking?

Because of the so many primates, including chimpanzees, in Kibale National Park, Budongo forest, Kalinzu woodland, and Kyambura forest, Uganda is often called as the primate capital of Africa.

One of the greatest locations to spend one hour seeing wild, habituated chimpanzees in Kibale National Park is still One must have a chimpanzee permit granted by Uganda Wildlife Authority before one may walk a community or group of habituated chimpanzees. The chimpanzee permit you will let you one hour in their natural habitat before returning to your overnight Lodge.

Booking Chimpanzee permits for Kibale National Park

A chimpanzee permit is a card given by Uganda Wildlife Authority allowing half a day excursions to see and photograph habituated chimpanzees in Kibale Forest National Park. A half-day excursion, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park allows one to select to go in the morning or afternoon. Before you book, please get more information about this by calling Katland safaris.

When you want to schedule a chimpanzee trekking permit, you must tell us dates, months, and years when you expect to see chimpanzees in Kibale and we will verify availability. Once we discover permits for the desired day, we will reserve them and have them ready for you after payment. For records and review, we always provide scanned copies to our customers. A chimpanzee ticket covers one hour with chimpanzees, park admission costs, and armed ranger guide services.

Controlling Chimp Travel Expectations in Uganda

High expectations will definitely be there once you pay your chimpanzee trekking permits, transportation, and lodging expenses to see habituated chimpanzees in Kibale National Park; but, there is a way one can control his or her expectation bearing in mind that chances of seeing chimpanzees in Kibale National Park are way beyond 95%.

One of the greatest spots in Africa to view African habituated chimpanzees is Kibale National Park Usually beginning from your overnight accommodation, a chimp trip consists of traveling to Kibale National Park headquarters for registration and briefing. Each group of six will be assigned an armed ranger guide after the briefing to lead and guide you into the forest.

Regarding monkeys, birds, trees, plants, and bushes, UWA ranger guides are well informed; you will discover that your search for chimpanzees will be rather fulfilling. Once you locate the chimpanzees, you might spend one hour viewing a 20-foot or 7-meter distance while snapping images and basic films.

UWA stresses one hour with these endangered apes as, in their habituation process, they are essentially conditioned to tolerate human people for one hour so that privacy is preserved as well as providing adequate time to eat and build their nests.

Unlike mountain gorillas living in a well-organized family structure, chimpanzees dwell in large groups ranging in count from 50 to 300 people. To avoid food rivalry, these chimpanzees split into little gatherings of perhaps eight or so throughout the day. Later, they would get together in the twilight to build their nighttime nests.

It is noteworthy that these parties continue to mix and at one point you will see three different groups of visitors following joining up producing numerous persons viewing one community that has just combined. This is the reason many people grumble about the large numbers of chimpanzees around a neighborhood or party.

Why would you book your chimpanzee trip via Katland Safaris?

Should you not be able to make it for the trip because to uncertainty, Katland Safaris will assist you in booking your chimpanzee trekking permits in Uganda and help you handle a credit note for your permits. We can arrange for you several chimpanzee trekking safari packages ranging from budget, mid-range to luxury alternatives including the chimpanzee permits.

View our travel adviser evaluations and read from a community of contented customers. You know you will have an unforgettable Uganda chimpanzee trip with us. Our first priorities are giving great client pleasure and service. Our staff of outstanding tour guides is always ready to assist with all your safari queries. We promise a fantastic chimpanzee trip in Uganda with us.

Kibale NP Chimpanzee FAQ for Trekking

Trekking with chimpanzees: what is it?

Trekking in the bush to locate wild chimpanzee habituated populations is an outdoor sport known as chimps’ trailking.  Once you locate them, one hour is set up for observation and pictures. One must have a current chimpanzee trekking permission provided by Uganda wildlife Authority or National Forest Authority in order to hike chimps anyplace in Uganda.

Where can I get or arrange chimpanzee permits to see Ugandan chimps?

While National Forest Authority provides licenses to visit chimpanzees outside national parks but in forest reserves, Uganda Wildlife Authority issues permits for chimps in National Parks. While individuals interested in trekking chimpanzees in Kalinzu and Budongo forest can consider contacting Agents designated by NFA to dole out chimpanzee trekking permits on their behalf, those interested in trekking Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park and Kyambura gorge should contact UWA. Katland safaris helps customers who book via us. Get in touch for more information.

A chimpanzee hiking permit for Kibale National Park costs what?

Kibale Chimpanzee permit prices vary as UWA reviews tariffs. Kibale chimpanzee permits cost UDS$300 for foreign none residents and USD$250 for foreign residents with a working permit right now. This expenses park admission costs, one hour with habituated chimpanzees, and armed UWA ranger guide services.

Why does the chimpanzee permit for Kibale National Park cost so much?

We see the cost of a chimpanzee permit to walk chimps in Kibale Forest National Park as costly as we view chimpanzees globally as endangered and hence the activity is pricey depending on daily visitor count. Apart from this, they need funds to safeguard these primates by paying staff members, funding research initiatives, and allocating some money to local development projects around Kibale National Park.

Why one hour is chimp trekking in Kibale National Park?

Once you discover them, visiting habituated chimpanzees and watching them just takes one hour all throughout Africa. Chimpanzees are wild creatures by nature, hence their interactions with humans should be few.

They train chimpanzees to meet human humans everyday for one hour to allow them time to eat and go about their regular tasks like building their nests with little disruption, therefore sustaining this habituated state.

Can one spend longer time with chimpanzees in Kibale National Park?

Once you have located them with an armed ranger escort, normal chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park lets you spend one hour with habituated chimpanzees. If you reserve a gorilla habituation experience permit instead of the usual chimp trekking permit, you may therefore spend longer time with Chimps in Kibale National Park. Experience with chimps allows you to spend half a day among yet under habituated animals. See Katland Safaris for more details on chimpanzee habituation experience.

Included in the cost of my chimp trekking permit?

One hour with chimpanzees where you can see habituated chimps in Kibale allows you to see, record movies and take photographs, park entrance fees for Kibale and services of UWA armed ranger who will be with you throughout the journey.

Excluded from the cost of my kibale chimpanzee trekking permit is what?

The cost of chimpanzee permit to walk in Kibale National Park excludes lodging, food, transportation to and from Kibale National Park which should be reserved via a reputable tour operator like Katland safaris.

When should one go chimpanzee trekking in Kibale?

An all-year round activity, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park may take place any day, any time. For gorilla trekking, the drier and warmer June, July, August, September then December to February is the ideal season to explore Kibale National Park. Regretfully, this year in

Chimps need time to get accustomed.

Completing the habituating of a chimpanzee population in Uganda takes two to three years. Until they become adjusted to humans, a group of experts and researchers will remain visiting wild chimpanzees. First carried out until they are happy, a simulated exercise should be done before a town opens itself to tourists. Visited from Kanyanchu UWA headquarters, Kibale National Park has three habituated chimpanzee populations.

When should one go chimpanzee treking in Kibale National Park?

Though the optimum time to visit Kibale is the dry or warm season of June, July, august, September then December to February, chimpanzees in Kibale National Park may be visited or hiked any of the year. But this season falls within summer and peak seasons when chimpanzee permits usually sell out.

Is the money used for chimpanzee treking in Kibale worth it?

To a regular visitor, its true Kibale National park chimpanzee trekking is quite costly. One might wonder whether the money spent for such is worth it. The first thing to value is the amazing and lifelong memory to savor that comes from witnessing and shooting chimpanzees in their natural surroundings.

This money was used for community-based programs to benefit people living around Kibale National Park as well as for chimpanzee licenses to pay staff wages of Uganda Wildlife Authority. Paying and hiking chimps in Kibale National Park will help you simultaneously contribute to community development and protection of the threatened chimpanzees.

In Kibale National Park, chimpanzee trekking minimum age is fifteen years and above. Not permitted are any youngsters under the age of fifteen. Sometimes a youngster who is approaching turning fifteen but not yet permitted to walk chimps as long as he or she appears adult and is physically fit.

Still, individuals who like traveling with children under the age of fifteen may engage in various activities in Kibale woodland, such a woodland walk to find other primates or a Bigodi Swamp hike in the neighboring community swamp. As you go for gorilla trekking, Katland safaris can help with activity planning for your youngster. For more information, please not hesitate to phone or email us.

Can my chimpanzee permit be rescheduled?

As long as you notify UWA in time, you may postpone your chimpanzee permission to another day. We will handle everything when you book your chimpanzee permit with Katland safaris.

How differs chimp trekking from chimp habituation experience?

One hour is the difference between chimpanzee trekking and Chimpanzee habituation experience; habituation provides more hours with chimpanzees while trekking is just one hour.

When should I arrange my chimpanzee permit?

After gorilla trekking and permits, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park is the next big attraction. Sales of these tend to run fast. Like we do with short notice, it is advisable to reserve your permit three to four months ahead.

Where else in Uganda may I find a chimpanzee?

Apart from Kibale National Park, one may hike chimpanzee at Budongo woodland in Murchison Falls Conservation area, Kalinzu forest in Bunyaruguru and Kyambura gorge in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Where in Kibale National Park may one find chimpanzees?

Given the highly ordered experience of habituated chimps free of fear of humans, chances of encountering them in Kibale forest National park are 95% and higher.

Kanyanchu hosts how many chimpanzee communities?

Three colonies of habituated chimpanzees accessible for tourists right now. One of Kibale’s best sites for chimp treks is Kanyanchu.