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There are only about 650 individual gorillas left in the whole
world. Half of these endangered species are located in Uganda.
Gorilla Safaris are done in Bwindi National Park and Mgahinga National
Park in Uganda. The other alternative of Gorilla tracking is in
Rwanda.
Gorilla Tracking Permits in Uganda
-Permit costs USD 500 per person.
-East African Residents pay USD 355
The cost includes park fees and guides fees.
Its advisable to book gorilla permits several months prior
to your visit: Only 24 tourists per day are allowed to
track gorillas. 18 in Bwindi and 6 in Mgahinga National park. Each
tracking party is accompanied by a guide, 3 trackers and 4 army
personnel.
Read about Gorilla tracking Rules Here
-To inquire on the availability of a gorilla permit contact the
Uganda Wildlife Authority.
- Find the Tour operators doing Gorilla
Safaris in Uganda.
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Organisations involved in the conservation of Gorillas include the
Dianney Fossey Foundation and International
Gorilla Conservation Program.
For your adventure holiday in Uganda,a gorilla trekking safari
will make the best of a safari expedition. The Endangered gorillas are one of the prominent apes and primates of the world. Read more about the imp, lemur, monk, orangutan, rascal, scamp and simian and anthropoid ape.
Mountain Gorilla Safari
Testimony of Bruce William 2006
Visiting mountain gorillas in their natural habitat is one of the
things a person must do in their lifetime. It is a unique experience.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to 320 of the 700 remaining
mountain gorillas in the world. Three family groups are habituated
to humans and eight visitors are permitted to spend an hour observing
each family each day. Permits must be purchased in advance at the
UWA office in Kampala. The tour companies take most of the permits
as they become available, so the independent traveller has to act
fast and appear in person with $375 US per person. Bills must be
dated 2002 or later and older US bills will be rejected.
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We stayed at Buhoma Community Rest Camp, a community operated facility
with a few bandas and campsites. It is good to see the money going
to the local people instead of an upscale commercial operation.
Facilities are rudimentary, but well maintained and clean.
Checking in for your gorilla trek is time consuming, so show up
early. First you have to go to the booth at the entrance to the
park, where a ranger will want to see your permit and passport,
will ask whether you have any communicable diseases and will check
your name off on a list. You are then directed to the park ranger
compound where a more senior ranger will want to see your permit
and passport, ask about communicable diseases and check your name
off on another master list. Finally there is an orientation meeting
where you are instructed about behaviour near gorillas, the possibility
of trekking through the jungle an seeing no gorillas and the fact
that if the guide determines you have a communicable disease you
will be sent home with no gorilla sightings and no refund. You are
given a chance to hire a porter for 10,000 Uganda shilling (about
$6.30 CAD). This is a wise investment because carrying a pack with
your camera, rain jacket, lunch and water in a humid jungle is not
pleasant and it is good to provide income to the locals. Several
of the ladies in our group found that the porters could help them
up steep climbs and across streams in the jungle. One porter even
carried a lady who developed a sore knee for about half he distance.
These slight looking young porters are incredibly strong and able
to run up steep hills carrying a heavy load.
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You have to drive from the assembly point to the start of your
trek. The other trekkers were with tour groups who had 4x4 vehicles,
but we had a little 2 wheel drive Toyota Corolla and were concerned
we would not be able to keep up. The ranges offered to let us ride
in their 4x4 Land Rover pick-up. There is a bench seat where my
wife and daughter could sit beside the driver and I got to sit in
the back with the porters, rangers and guides. I got a good close
look at the AK47's the rangers carry in the jungle. The young people
in the back of the truck had a good time as we drove to the start
of our trek. I could not understand much of the African language
they were speaking, but there seemed to be some good natured teasing
of a cute female porter involving the word Impenetrable from the
park name.
We finally arrived at the start of our trek. Gorillas move through
the jungle as they feed so it is not possible to tell in advance
how far the trek will be. One of the groups had to walk 35 minutes
to see their gorillas and the other 45 minutes. Our gorillas had
moved during the night so it was a 3 1/2 hour hike before we caught
up with them. This started with about a kilometer through some very
steep farm land before we got to the jungle, and then up and down
jungle covered hills and across several streams. As you move through
the jungle, a guide stays at the head of the group and porters are
assigned to watch the back for stragglers. Rangers armed with AK47
assault rifles move ahead, to the flanks and to the rear of the
group. These rangers seem to do most of the work of locating the
gorillas and finding a good place to stop, remove packs and get
cameras ready before approaching.
We finally caught up with our gorilla family and spent an hour
observing and photographing them from close distances. This is an
unforgettable experience.
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The guides decided it would be shorter to change the pick up point
and take a different route out of the jungle. They radioed the trucks
when they got out of the jungle to open farm land where there was
radio reception.
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