Gorilla Permit To Cost $1000 Effective 1st January 2027

The Uganda Wildlife Authority has set a new price for gorilla trekking in Uganda, effective 1st January 2027. Currently, the Uganda gorilla permit is currently $800 per foreign non-resident. This will be edging close to the Rwandan $1500 gorilla permit for non-residents. This will be the third time in a row that the Uganda Wildlife Authority is revising the gorilla trekking rate in less than 7 years.

The previous rate revision has been $100 increase per price change. It was from $600, to $700, then $800. It is the first time in the last seven years that the permit price has been increased by $200. Similar to the former price increase, the experience remains the same. It is simply the same experience but at a revised price.

One of the reasons that gorilla trekking is expensive is because there is a limited number of people allowed to access the national park on a daily basis. Unlike the savannah parks where whoever wishes to visit simply pays an entrance fee, in gorilla trekking the number is limited. In order to compensate for the numbers; the park charges one person a fee that is paid by a total of 25 people in the savannah parks.

Courtesy of wild places, Uganda is going hard on conservation efforts. There are also plans to limit the number of access to the savannah parks in the coming years. The country intends to avoid the strain that Tanzania and Kenya courtesy of Masai Mara and Serengeti national park tend to put on the wildlife. Though it is common to find like thirty cars in just one sector of Bwindi, all these people often go to different directions in the same forest. It is close to impossible to find 30 people in one spot.

The price of the gorilla trekking permit must have been inspired mostly by the Rwanda gorilla trekking permit rate. Though there is need for more resource to support the conservation efforts of the Uganda wildlife Authority, it is also true that they are not revising the rates for Kidepo valley national park because they very well know that it will deter the few visitors that drive that far to visit of the best savannah national parks in Africa.

For clarity purposes, the gorilla trekking permits is costing $800 per foreign non resident until 31st December 2026. This means that even if you are buying the permits for next year in 2026, you will still pay $1000. It is not that you only start paying $1000 on 1st January 2027, it is that every permit that intends to track starting 1st January 2027 on wards, you will pay $1000

What You Need To Buy The Gorilla Trekking Permit In Uganda

Formerly, you were required to send in copies of your passport to buy gorilla trekking permits. However with the new order, you only need to give the tour operator your gorilla trekking dates since the permits are bought in company names. The details of the trekkers name are feed in on the day of trekking.  Therefore all you need to buy gorilla trekking permits are your preferred gorilla trekking dates, location and the money to buy the gorilla trekking permits.

It is also important to note that permits are bought on 100% payment basis. It is not possible to buy permits by making a down payment, you therefore need to send the full amount to have the gorilla trekking permits bought on your behalf.

Are there any changes in reschedules?

Reschedules closer to the gorilla trekking date always attract a 25% fine for late reschedule. This means that if you are to reschedule twice, you will be paying an extra $500 making it the same price like the Rwanda permit.

4x4uganda organizes gorilla trekking permits. You can reach out to us in case you need to buy gorilla trekking permits for Bwindi impenetrable national park or Mgahinga gorilla national park.