Why Gorilla Trekking in Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park is the most visited Park in Congo, the most unexplored, beautiful and the oldest Park in Africa that lies in South East of Congo bordering Uganda and Rwanda. Visiting Virunga National Park for gorilla tracking is worthwhile and it stands alone on the Earth with such a variety of wildlife. There are many reasons why you do gorilla trekking in Virunga National Park not elsewhere can offer the same unique experience the way Virunga offers
Gorilla Trekking
Virunga National Park has the cheapest gorilla tracking permit to among the three countries mountain gorilla takes place. Deciding to do gorilla tracking in Virunga National Park in Congo, you expect to pay $ 400 per permit person per trek that will allow a visitor to do gorilla tracking in Virunga National Park and spend them almost one hour face to face in their natural home.
Tracking gorillas in Virunga National Park is a little bit not tiresome compared to other National Parks where gorilla trekking takes place. This is because of that the terrain of Virunga National Park is a bit more open and less difficult in terms of terrain for tracking and the altitudes can be higher at 5000m, this still means that the activity is still fit for visitors and therefore it is easier to get a good and clear view.
This is a rare opportunity to track gorillas in the UNESCO World Heritage Site that was designated due to the biological diversity it has with over 2,000 premier plant species have been identified here of which 10% are endemic to the Albertine Rift. Taking this chance to track gorillas in the Park that boats afro-montane forests, savannas, lava plains, swamps, belts to unique afro-alpine vegetation, erosion valleys and permanent glaciers peak of mountain Rwenzori is worthwhile which you can’t find elsewhere gorilla tracking takes place.
This is an extraordinary opportunity of tracking gorillas within the same Park with the most active Volcano in Africa and considered the most dangerous volcano in the world. Mount Nyiragongo is currently still active which has erupted 34 times since 1882 and it’s last erupted in 2002, and it holds a deep world’s largest lava lake that associated with the Albertine Rift. Visitors who are looking for the extraordinary opportunity of gorilla tracking and the same time hiking adventure or climbing to the top of the volcano and watching its bubbling lava at the summit, this is the best destination to visit
Gorillas in Virunga National Park
Gorilla tracking in Virunga National Park offering a unique opportunity to see chimpanzees under the same wild with mountain gorillas and over 218 mammal species, 706 bird species, 109 reptile species and 78 amphibian species of which all make you trek worthy. This is an incredible chance who have own by a very few tourists who have visited this destination
Visiting Virunga National Park for gorilla tracking takes you to the home of Gorilla Orphanage Center. Senkwekwe Gorilla Orphanage Center is the only Gorilla Orphanage Center in the world situated at Virunga National Park headquarters in Rumangabo. This is an amazing opportunity which you can’t find elsewhere in the world unless you visited Virunga National Park.
The increasing number of visitors has also attracted the potential investors who have constructed the accommodation facilities that range from luxury to budget facilities which are open all year round. Such facilities surrounded the Virunga National Park include Mikeno Lodge, Tchegera Island Tented Camp, Bukima Tented Camp, Lulimbi Tented Camp, Nyiragongo Volcano Summit shelters and among others that offer you the ultimate experience.
Virunga National Park accessible in two counties that are through entering Rwanda and a three-hour drive to the Gisenyi border of Rwanda and Congo, and Uganda through the Bunagana border of Uganda and Congo. Luxury travel tends to use air transport that flies from Kigali airport to Goma airport in Congo and then drive to Virunga National Park and direct flight are also available in ET ‘’Ethiopia airline’’