Day: March 20, 2017

Where Can I Go for Gorilla Trekking Experience in Africa?

The gorilla trekking experience is the life time adventure that one wouldn’t miss for the visit to Africa. There are 3 African countries where you can find the mountain gorillas which include Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla Park, Rwanda, Volcanoes National Park and DRC Congo, in the Virunga National Park as well as Kahuzi Biega National Park for the Eastern low land gorillas. The mountain gorilla trekking experience can be done in all the 3 African countries with reliable service providers like Eco Tours Rwanda which can offer you combined gorilla trekking experience in all national parks which protects the primates. If you would love to take this experience in Africa visit Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Volcanoes National Park offers the several experiences apart from the mountain gorilla tour which include the golden monkey track, Dian Fossey, mount Visoke and Karisimbi hiking and the most loved new tourism product which is bird watching. The gorilla trek experience in Rwanda cost $ 750 USD, golden monkey cost $ 100 USD, Dian Fossey cost $ 75 USD and also the hike to the mountains cost $ 75 USD. There are several gorilla families which include the Amahoro, Susa, Sabyinyo, Ugenda, Hirwa, Umubano, Group 13 and Karisimbi among others and each group in the 3 regions per day is visited by 08 clients as to meet the conservation of the mountain gorillas and to meet the carrying capacity of the forest!

The Virunga National Park, has got also the gorilla families which include the Kabirizi, Humba, Rugendo, Mapuwa and Lulengo and at the Virunga you can visit other gorilla centre like Senkwenkwe orphanage centre, and you can as well experience the Nyiragongo Hike, Mount Nyiragongo is an active strato – volcano with an elevation of 3470 m (11382 ft.) in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift.

It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km (12 mi) north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater is about two kilometres wide and usually contains a lava lake. The crater presently has two distinct cooled lava benches within the crater walls – one at about 3,175 metres (10,417 ft.) and a lower one at about 2,975 m (9,760 ft.).

Nyiragongo Lava Lake has at times been the most voluminous known lava lake in recent history. The depth of the lava lake varies considerably. A maximum elevation of the lava lake was recorded at about 3,250 m (10,660 ft.) prior to the January 1977 eruption – a lake depth of about 600 m (2,000 ft.). A recent very low elevation of the lava lake was recorded at about 2,700 m (8,900 ft.). Nyiragongo and nearby Nyamuragira are together responsible for 40% of Africa’s historical volcanic eruptions.

Then the gorilla permit in Virunga National Park cost $ 464 USD, the hike of the Nyiragongo cost $ 255 USD and then the chimpanzee habituation can be experienced.-Later you can transfer to Uganda for the 3rd gorilla trek in either Mgahinga Gorilla Park or Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and it is Uganda with high population of mountain gorillas and families include the Mubare, Habinyanja, Rushegura, Nkuringo, Bikingi, Bitukura, Oruzogo, Kyaguriro, Nshongi, Mishaya, Busigye, Kahungye, Bweza among others and this experience can be experienced with the combination to the African wildlife species in the Queen Elizabeth National Park where you can experience the game drives and boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel.

Safari Camping Sites in Uganda National Parks

It was last year when we planned to visit Uganda and as we were not financially stable we decided to take camping safari than stay in lodge safari, our safari started with Kidepo National Park and we spent 3 nights in this park as it has much to offer that we wanted to discover all and we did so, this park has got variety of wildlife and also visit to the Karamajong cultural groups like the Manyatta, Ik, Geers and Pokot. With our 4×4 Car Rental in Uganda and the professional guide we had 3 consecutive game drive viewing and good photo shoots and videos were taken.

Then our stay at the Uganda Wildlife Authority Banda’s, and us and our guide Alex we prepared for our dinner and later back to our Banda’s. After being filled with all what Kidepo offers we continued to Murchison Falls National Park, and upon arrival we stayed at the Fort Murchison Camp, and this lodge is quite strategically stationed near the park so connecting to do our game drives was so convenient as it took us like 40 minutes into the park and start searching for the wildlife species. Later, we had our lunch near the shores of the shores of the River Nile, and after we took the amazing boat cruise along the River Nile towards the bottom of the falls and then when we reached at the end of the boat, we jumped off the boat and hike the top of the falls and upon our arrival at the top our guide with the car had already crossed with the ferry to meet us at the top and drive us back via the ferry to return to the lodge.

More so for clients that would not like stay at the lodge we stayed there is also other amazing camping places in the Murchison Falls National Park, like the camping near the shores of the River Nile at the delta side and this, the park management provide you with the security officers to protect you from wildlife and camp fire is set too at the camp. You can also opt to stay at Red Chill Camp, Yebo Camp, and Murchison River Lodge Camp among others.

Thereafter, we spent one night extra at the Budongo Forest and here we stayed at the Bomu Women Camp and this is locally home stay place that we loved much while on our safari, here you can practice in activities locally and then on our following day we experienced the chimpanzee trekking and the fee is $ 90 USD per person, and as this is an Eco Tourism destination much primates, birds, butterflies and plants species we experienced and after we embarked our safari jeep and continued to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and stayed in hostels and the meals here are local but so delicious!

After having visited the re-introduced white Rhinos, drove to the Fort Portal town and here we stayed again budget at the Raja Hotel, and then the following day we visited to Semliki National Park for the hot springs and also we experienced the night game drive that is much done in this national park having this experience we had to return to Entebbe for one more night and then visit to the Mabamba wetland for the search of the shoe bill and then in the evening embarked the flight back home and I highly recommend this saving type of travel in Uganda.