How best can you pick your Chimpanzee permit card from Uganda Wildlife Authority? There are several stages that the visitors have to pass through to book and secure a chimpanzee permit card. Collecting chimpanzee permits card from the Uganda wildlife authority is one of the steps that visitors have to pass through to book the chimpanzee tracking permit cards. Other than gorilla trekking, chimpanzee tracking is the second thought after activity by the visitor in Uganda, Uganda is known as the destination with several primates and has always been referred to as the primate capital by different scholars and travelers who have visited the country. Visitors interested in doing chimpanzee tracking in Uganda must have a chimpanzee permit card. Remember that chimpanzee tracking is only done on habituated chimpanzees.  The chimpanzee permit card will enable to access Kibale forest national park, Budongo Forest Reserve in Murchison falls National park, Bugoma forest reserve, Kyambura gorge in Queen Elizabeth national park for chimpanzee trekking.

History of chimpanzee tracking permit cards issued by Uganda Wildlife Authority

All activities related to a primate in Uganda and wildlife are regulated by Uganda Wildlife Authority. Also, the chimpanzee trekking permit cards are issued by UWA. The chimpanzee trekking permit card allows you to spend one hour seeing the habituated chimpanzees in Kyambura, Budongo, or Kibale Forest National Park. Once you have your card, you may decide to do chimpanzee trekking in the morning, mid-morning, or the afternoon. Visitors with chimpanzee trekking permit cards will be entitled to have free park entrance, no charges for the guide and security and then guarantee you your one hour of seeing chimpanzees in the forest. Previously, the chimp permit cards were just printed as receipts that visitors would carry to the park or forest but with technological advancement, the chimpanzee’s trekking permit cards have now replaced the paper permits. The chimpanzee trekking permit cards bear the details including those on your passport and the actual dates of tracking.

When to pick chimpanzee permit cards from Uganda Wildlife Authority?

Picking the chimpanzee permit card is done when you have fully booked through the Uganda Wildlife Authority. By contacting our services at Africa Adventure Vacations, we will help you check the availability of the chimp permit cards through the UWA system whether there are slots for chimpanzee permit cards in Kibale National Park and Kyambura Gorge. And once we found availability on your requested date then we will get back to you with the dates of the availability and once you agreed with the available date then request you to make some payments. Remember that Africa Adventure Vacation, we will require you to make payment for your chimpanzee permit. At Africa adventure vacations we accept two modes of payment which credit card and bank accounts even cash once you have Encounter Africa safaris accept bank transfers, credit card as well as cash depending on your preferred mode of payment. We will continue booking and secure your permit once you have cleared the payment.

The moment we get the monkey we go straight to the Uganda wildlife authority head offices in the reservation department and pay for your chimp permit card. The Uganda Wildlife Authority will then issue us a receipt, not the real card then we shall send you the scanned copies of the receipt as proof of payment. Once the dates of trekking are closer, we shall get back and have all the details for you to be able to print the cards which will then be collected by one of our staff. The chimp permits will be safely kept in our offices until you touch down on the Ugandan soil for the real experience of chimpanzee tracking.

Our visitors need to note that the best time to collect and pick the chimpanzee permit card from Uganda Wildlife Authority is one week (7days) before your actual date of chimpanzee tracking. By this time, you will be assured that you will able to visit the Uganda Wildlife authority and pick your chimp permit cards. At Africa Adventure Vacations, we have got a very good record management system and in case you lose your permit, we shall be able to retrieve it and proceed for your chimpanzee trekking safari in Uganda.

Once you have collected your chimpanzee permit cards from Uganda Wildlife Authority, It doesn’t mean that the permits are fully yours, they remain the property of UWA and you will present them to respective conservation areas where you will do your chimpanzee trekking safaris for verification of the cards. This will be done by all the warden who will check the whole process and ensure that the permit is valid and the warden keeps the card as you trek and once the activity is done the cards are resent to UWA offices for re-use. The moment the activity is done, the chimpanzee permit card is expired immediately for that particular date.

Why use a tour operator in booking and picking chimpanzee permit cards from UWA

 It is very easy for you to use a tour company in booking and picking the chimp permit cards. By booking with Africa Adventure Vacations, we shall check for you the availability, reserve a, pay, and then pick your chimpanzee permit cards from Uganda Wildlife Authority. We do all this on your behalf once you have booked with us as we leave you to concentrate on other travel arrangements according to your plans Africa adventure vacations has assembled different safaris to Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo. We shall do for you a wonderful safari to Kibale Forest National Park, Budogo Forest, and Kyambura Gorge for chimpanzee trekking. All our packages are well uploaded on our website and you can go there and read and send us inquiries then we shall be able to respond to you back immediately.