Top things to do in Virunga National Park : Virunga national park is among the most rewarding destinations in Africa that every traveller should visit once in a lifetime. The park is the largest oldest national park in Africa that travellers will get the opportunity to observe a number of rewarding attractions in the park which will give you the opportunity to observe a number of rewarding attractions and this article, we shall help you understand the top things to do in Virunga National Park to make your Congo Safaris quite memorable.
Gorilla trekking
Among the top things to do in Virunga National Park will give you the opportunity to observe a number of rewarding features of the primates in the wild. It should be noted that in Virunga national park, you will observe the mountain gorillas in Africa and the gorilla trekking experience in Congo that will give you the opportunity to observe a number of rewarding features for an amazing safari. Gorilla trekking in Virunga national park will give you access to the gorilla families which will give you the opportunity to spend an hour with the species in the wild watching a number of rewarding features like the dominant silver back who has all the mating rights with the females in the group, you will also get to take beautiful pictures of the primates to make your safari experience quite memorable.
Visiting the Senkwenkwe gorilla orphanage
You should visit the Senkwenkwe gorilla orphanage in Virunga national park which will lead you to a number of orphaned gorillas in Africa, Congo that you will get to observe as you participate in the activity. While you visit the orphanage, you can volunteer for a day to take care of the species for a day by volunteering to take care of the species for a day and among the activities that you will get engage in include; caring for them for a day, you can clean their sleeping areas, bottle feed the infants for an amazing safari experience. The Senkwenkwe gorilla orphanage has improved sustainability of the mountain gorilla species by giving shelter to orphaned gorillas and once they are ready to go back to the wild, they can be released back their which is an amazing effort towards saving the falling numbers of primates in the wild.
Mount Nyiragongo hike
Although mount Nyiragongo hike is quite impossible to be done right now due to the fact that the mountain erupting which led to its closer however when the park opens, (for travellers that are interested to know when this will happen, you can contact us @info) while hiking mount Nyiragongo, get ready to watch a number of attractions like the rewarding views of the Virunga mountains like mount muhabura, mount sabyinyo, mount karisimbi and many others as you hike the Virunga mountains in the park that will make your safari experience quite memorable. When you hike mount Nyiragongo you will get to watch the lava boiling on the summit of the park on the world’s largest lava lake for a rewarding safari experience.
Birding
Among the top things to do in Virunga National Park that will give you the opportunity to observe a number of rewarding safari experience. Birding in Congo will give you the chance to observe a number of different bird species for an amazing safari experience among the bird species that can be seen include; Pockefellers’s sun bird, Chapin’s flycatcher, Rwenzori Batis, strange weaver, red throated alethe among other bird species. You can also have a chance to see 11 species of the Guinea Congo Forest biome, and a number of other bird species like the blue turaco, Ross’s turaco, coqui Francolin, long tailed cisticola, bubbling cisticola, Miombo wren warbler, Chubb’s cisticola among other the bird species.
