Is Nyungwe worth visiting?
Is Nyungwe worth visiting? This is a park that is not to be missed. The hikers offer unforgettable experience depending on which animals and other wildlife you will see. Nyungwe forest national park is also a dwell for astonishingly attractive plant species, orchids and magnificent marshland and it is widely and wonderful documented as a birding paradise with over 322 recorded bird species, 29 of which are regarded to be endemic to Albertine rift as well as magnificent butterflies.
Nyungwe forest national park is one of the three national parks in Rwanda that offers astonishing safari once visited. The park is well known for housing many chimpanzee which are over 500 recorded and being the only destination were this astonishing and stunning Rwanda chimpanzees tracking tours are conducted, the park also ensures that it offers the most astonishing chimpanzee safari adventure to travelers.
Though the park is well known as a Rwandan chimpanzee tracking destination, the park also is a dwell foe many fascinating colobus monkeys and the canopy walk experience which is the only national park in east Africa which offers such amazing adventure experience which is the ideal to most of the travelers in the country.
Reasons why you should consider Nyungwe in your travel safari in Rwanda
Home to chimpanzees in Rwanda
This is the most important reason why Nyungwe is a worth visiting, the park is the only one national park that you can find this astonishing chimpanzees. The park has gotten 3 habituated chimpanzee community in Nyungwe forest national park where tourist on a Rwanda chimpanzee safaris can easily trek this magnificent chimps with over 500 chimpanzees that are habituated and fully open for tracking yearly such as Cyamudongo family with over 30 individual , Uwinka family ,this is a huge group of chimp’s family living in the Nyungwe forest itself with approximant of 60 magnificent chimps and finally the newly created habituated chimpanzee family called the Gisovu family .
Rwanda Chimpanzee tracking tours starts in the morning and the activity is carried in a maximum group of 8 individuals just as the gorilla trekking. The chimpanzees at Nyungwe forest national park have been and being habituated that’s to say they are now used with human presence. The park receives a very huge number of tourists annually who come to meet face to face and spend time interacting with this magnificent primates –man’s closest living relatives observing them as they carry out their daily activities , playing among others
Primate safaris
Nyungwe is the only national park in Rwanda that offers primates safaris, the park is a home of over 12 primate species including the occasionally golden monkeys that have been recorded, the park is also famous for its large number of colobus monkeys, there also others primate species such as Mona monkeys, Ruwenzori colobus monkey ,grey-cheeked mangabey ,L’ Hoest’s monkey, Owl -faced monkeys, Olive baboons, Red tailed monkeys, Vervet monkeys, Black and white colobus Dent’s monkeys and Bush baby among others .
Offers amazing birding safaris
Nyungwe forest national park is worth visiting, a montane forest is a bird paradise with 322 bird species will offer you with some fantastic views of this astonishing birds. Currently about 29 bird species are endemic to the Albertine Rift, 11 of the 23 gunea-Congo forest biome, montane birds and migratory birds among others. Some of the birds that can be spotted by birders on birding safaris in Rwanda include Grauer’s Rush Warbler, Rwenzori Turaco, Red-throated Alethe, Apalis argentea, Purple-breasted and Blue-headed, Kungwe Apalis Ruwenzori Apalis, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Alethe poliophrys, Stripe-breasted Tit, Batis diops, Ruwenzori Batis, Caprimulgus Ruwenzori, Archer’s Robin-chat Cossypha archeri, Ruwenzori Nightjar, Dusky Crimson Wing, Handsome Francolin, Shelley’s Crimsonwing, Francolinus nobilis, Cryptospiza Shelley, Cryptospiza Jackson, Hemitesia neumanni, Red-collared Babbler, Kupeornis rufocinctus, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Melaenornis ardesiacus, Regal Sunbird, Neumann’s Warbler, Kivu Ground Thrush, and Willard’s Sooty Boubou Kungwe apalis ,Congo Bay Owl, Albertine Owlet, Rockefeller’s Sunbird and Cinnyris regius among others . All of this and more may be spotted easily from the park’s well-maintained network of trails such as Igishigishigi trail, Isumo trail, Kamiranzovu trail, Gisakura trail, Bigugu trail, Karambi trail among others with the assistance of skilled bird guides
Offers the best hiking experiences
Nyungwe forest is the perfect destination for Rwanda hiking safaris, the forest has a total of 13 hiking trails along which you can walk in 1 to 8 hours viewing a multiple of plants, tress, birds, primates and others wildlife. Nyungwe national Forest has a steep ground, many waterfalls and captivating wildlife species makes hiking in Nyungwe Forest a fame activity. Hiking in Nyungwe Forest provide enormous net system of attractive trails for hikers of any level. Besides being one of the oldest forests in Africa, Hiking in Nyungwe Forest takes you to plentiful waterfalls, viewpoints, and not to mention the discussed source of the Nile. For the more comfy hikers, Hiking in Nyungwe Forest presents you with shorter options such as the canopy walkway and hikes around Kamiranzovu Swamp such hiking trail includes, Igishigishigi trail, Isumo trail, Bigugu trail, Karamba trail, Irebero trail, Uwinka trail, Ngabwe trail, Umuyove trail, Congo Nile divide trail, Rukuzi trail, Muzima trail, Umugota trail among others.
Offers interesting canopy walk adventure safaris
Nyungwe national park is the only national park in east African that offers amazing canopy walk safaris to visitors. Nyungwe forest national park is contains about a 50 meters and 200meters above the ground level. the Canopy walkaways in Nyungwe forest national park is the first and longest walkway consisting of 1 kilometer long and 70 meter height from the ground and it is the third in longest in African continent. While on top of the forest, you will get to spot some of the monkeys move around in the tree tops, the birds that are flying above you and below you and a magnificent view of the huge Nyungwe forest. It’s also amazing view of the surrounding landscape.
