Gorilla Habituation Experience Permits for Rushaga Gorilla group Bwindi ForestUganda cost 1500USD a Gorilla permit. Four (4) Ghex – Gorilla Habituation Experience slots are available to Tourists to spend 4 hours with Gorillas daily.
Spending 4 hours with the wild gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with the park officials is amazing.
Slots for tracking the wild Mountain Gorillas are more expensive than the regular tracking.
GHEX in Uganda operates in Rushaga Sector of Bwindi Forest Impenetrable National park and differs from Gorilla Trekking exercise.
Gorilla Habituation exercise or Gorilla Experience happens on wild Gorilla Families in Rushaga Sector of Bwindi Forest for instance Bikyingi Gorilla group.
Apparently Byikyingi group has 1 silver back, 9 adult females 2 sub adults and 9 infants and another Gorilla group for habituation is Bushaho gorilla family.
4 Hours Uganda Gorilla Trek or GHEX
Advantage of Gorilla Habituation, clients spend more time with the mountain gorillas after finding them compared to normal gorilla trekking.
Whats is Gorilla Habituation Experience?
It is a process of training wild mountain gorillas to be familiar to human beings.
Gorilla Habituation time frame work is two to three (2-3) years and it is done every day.
The experience helps game rangers to learn more about individual gorillas and their behaviours.
With time, researchers and gorillas get used to each individual gorilla and eventually name the gorillas.
Once researchers are sure that these mountain gorillas can be trekked, they then introduce a mock exercise where some few people like scientists and journalists start visit the group.
Once such a gorilla family has passed mock exercise, then it is opened for Gorilla Trekking Exercise.
Uganda Bwindi Forest has more than eleven habituated gorilla families which include Mubare, Habinyanja and Rushegura in the Northern section of the park.
This is Buhoma, then Bitukura or Oruzogo and Kyaguriro in the Eastern Part of Bwindi in Ruhija.
Nshongi, Mishaya, Busingye and Bweza plus Kahungye in Rushaga Sector.
And then Nkuringo Gorilla Family all in the Southern sector.
At the moment, eighty eight (88) gorilla permits are available for purchase from Uganda Wildlife Authority.
Two gorilla families available for gorilla habituation experience and these are in Nkuringo and Rushaga side of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
For this reason that gorilla habituation safaris are done only in the southern part of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Questions asked about Gorilla Habituation or Gorilla Experience
It only takes place in regions that have mountain gorillas under habituation and as of now, it’s only in Rushaga where new gorilla groups of Bikingi and Bushaho are under habituation.
Gorilla Habituation Experience in Uganda in Bwindi Forest Park
Provider Name
Katona Tours and Travel,
Plot 11 Luwum street Kampala,Kampala,Central-+256, Telephone No.+256774161700
Area
Bwindi Forest National Park
Description
Gorilla Habituation Experience Permits for Rushaga Gorilla group with in Bwindi Forest Uganda cost 1500USD a permit fee. Four (4) Ghex - Gorilla Habituation Experience Gorilla permits is the maximum number of permits sold to Tourists to trek Gorillas and spend 4 hours with Gorillas.