Discounted gorilla permits this November – Gorilla trekking safaris and tours.

The game is on and Uganda Wildlife Authority is still selling reduced gorilla permits at USD800.00 to travel gorillas in Mgahinga National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Should you be a foreign resident of Uganda, the cost is USD 800.00 per gorilla permit per person. Now that you may book with us a gorilla trip with inexpensive low season gorilla permits to visit gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga National Park Uganda, if you missed opportunity of April and May 2016.

Discounted Gorilla Permits

Although Uganda Wildlife Authority has vowed to keep providing low season gorilla permit offers for next years, the pricing may alter for 2018. Every year and upon announcement, the price for reduced gorilla permits is agreed upon and communicated to all of our customers and tour agents at Katland Safaris. We so advise anybody wishing to save $250.00 per permit to get in touch with us with dates.

All you need to do is let us know the precise day in November 2016-17 when you want to see gorillas; we will then verify availability of gorilla permits at Uganda Wildlife Authority on that specific date. Once permissions are obtained, we will bill you for full payment and 20% of the overall safari fee so we may validate your gorilla permit and other services to be rendered on your gorilla trekking Uganda safari.

Discounted gorilla permits are none refundable but may be modified or rescheduled to another day only in case you find any issue with your original date. They must be paid in full. Since rates vary depending on your status, you will have to email us a copy of your passport so Uganda Wildlife Authority may verify your either East African, Foreign Resident, or Foreign None Resident status.

They also ask for your passport in order to prove the age of people seeking gorilla permits. When passports are given, age limit may be determined and they can tell you if you are qualified or not. The minimum age for gorilla tracking is 15 years and above.

Get more information about savings on our transportation, lodging to help you visit Uganda using our reasonably priced low season prices by contacting Katland Safaris.

Gorilla tracking-which country benefits more – Gorilla trekking safaris and tours.

Mountain gorillas are found in Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other nations; so, gorilla tourism has expanded in these nations when visitors visit national parks and spend one hour with the gorillas. This page will attempt to identify the nation most benefiting from gorilla tourism.

Advantages from gorilla permit sales.

Mountain gorilla permits vary depending on the nation one is planning to visit for gorillas. While in Uganda a gorilla permit costs USD800 in peak season and USD 800 in low seasons of April May and November, Rwanda’s development board charges USD1500 for a gorilla permit per person per trip.

On paper, Rwanda makes more money from the selling of gorilla licenses based on the amount paid than Uganda owing mostly on pricing. Uganda could, however, sell additional permits and decrease the price differential gap depending on cost control. This pricing differential can also help Uganda to be a less expensive travel destination than Rwanda.

Advantages for hotels and lodges

Gorilla tourism benefits hotels and lodges as well; this depends on the number of days one spends at the lodge or hotel during his/her gorilla trip. The minimum days one needs to spend on a gorilla trip in Uganda are three and thereafter two nights at any one Lodge.

You have to spend another second night in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park as one night is when you get there and the second night is for trekking gorillas; you never know when you will be returning. Uganda Hotels & Lodges so enjoy more bed nights than their counterparts in Rwanda. Many visitors like trekking gorillas in Rwanda more for fewer days or nights spent than for any other reason—not because of any statistics.

You may travel to Kigali, drive directly to Volcanoes National Park, track gorillas the next day and then get to the airport for your departing flight out. This results in fewer bed nights per lodge as one requires one night at a specific resort in Rwanda. Although this benefits the visitor, it is not healthy for lodges as well as a source of government income.

Advantages for Tour Operators

Given more evenings and days spent on a gorilla trip to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga than in Rwanda, Ugand’s gorilla packages are more lucrative. For Uganda travel agents, discounted gorilla permits in April, May, and November is proving helpful.

Many visitors have been drawn to hike In Uganda at this time instead of Rwanda, and lodges also often lower their prices, which helps Uganda sell more easily than Rwanda.

Gorilla tourism helps all nations; depending on the approach used, we shall see who gains more in futre. Please contact Katland Safaris for any questions about gorilla trekking safaris; we will then provide appropriate advice.

Gorilla tourism and communities around Bwindi impenetrable forest.

Shared across districts of Kabale, Kisoro, and Kanungu, Bwindi impenetrable National Park stretches a sizable portion of southwest Uganda. Almost half of all the mountain gorillas in the world live here, making over 400,000 total.

Before Bwindi Impenetrable forest was gazzatted as a national park, local people and villages in kisoro, kabale and kanungu used to directly profit from the forest by gathering firewood, harnessing honey, hunting forest elephants, monkeys among others. They would also gather plants and drugs to treat malaria and other diseases. Practically, the local population considered their own as Bwindi impenetrable forest and felt they had rights over it.

Using Uganda Wildlife Authority, the government of Uganda decided in 1991 to classify Bwindi Impenetrable forest as a national park. This meant that, in terms of direct forest use at least, the local kabala, kisoro, and Kanungu communities surrendered their mandate to the Uganda government.

our did not go well in certain areas of the community as one elderly man complained that “God made sure he supplied a resource to the local communities in each region when He was building this planet.” God provided them Lake Victoria in central Uganda as a resource to support them by giving water, fish and leisure and so for that matter, the people of Kabale, Kanungu and kisoro were given Bwindi Forest as source of survival interms of firewood, medicine, hunting and honey harnessing.

Tell your government, then, that what they are doing is unacceptable. The Batwa people, who had been living in this forest for hundreds of millions of years, had seen it as their home. Their own will drove them out of the woodland when it was gazzatted.

Looking at the above, one wonders whether gorilla tracking helps the communities more than it did in past times. Uganda Wildlife authority began using the local people as rangers and guides after it took over the forest, therefore enabling them to somewhat profit from it rather than destroy it. Uganda Wildlife Authority’s motto, “Conserving for generations,” led them to provide an opportunity to all young people—especially those in school—to work as porters for gorilla hikers in order to generate some school fees and money to purchase books. our is considered as directly benefiting the younger generation, who will shape the future of our nation.

Revenue sharing involved a certain percentage of park entrance fees paid by visitors being returned to the nearby communities to build roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure absent from Bwindi impenetrable National Park when gorilla tracking tourism had not begun. Actually, the communities are gaining from this more than they have ever done.

Thanks to gorilla tracking, several community enterprises have emerged around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. A testimony to the fact that gorilla tourism has indeed been a revelation in as far as community development is concerned is camp sites like Buhoma community Bandas, craft shops and so many small businesses around buhoma, Ruhija and in the southern part of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.