Top things to do in Volcanoes National Park in 2023 : Volcanoes National Park is the leading top safari destination on a Rwanda safari. Volcanoes national park is located in northwestern part of Rwanda the park covers an area of 160 square kilometers, the park is blessed with various attractions that you will get engaged to do different Rwanda safari activities. Volcanoes national park has got the various things to be done by the tourists in 2023 namely gorilla trekking, Dian Fossey hike, hiking Virunga Mountains, golden monkey trekking. The park offers the unique sights of the primates to the visitors, bird species and among many others. Let Volcanoes national park be your dream safari destination 2023 such that you participate in various safari activities on a Rwanda safari.
Top things to do in Volcanoes National Park in 2023.
Gorilla trekking.
Gorilla trekking is the most safari activity to be done in Volcanoes National Park, this is one of the attractive activity that should not be missed out on a Rwanda safari. The activity starts with the briefing about the rules and regulations to follow while doing gorilla trekking, at the park headquarters. After the briefing tourists can be divided into different groups of about 8 members each group. And then you can be led by the well experienced guide into the forest in the park to search for the gorilla families the activity takes a period of 30 minutes to 4 hours regarding to the location of the gorillas.
Along searching for the gorillas you can hike different Virunga mountains in Rwanda like Mount Muhabura, Mount Sabyinyo, Mount Karisimbi, Mount Bisoke that help you to get the chance of observing well the mountain gorillas in their habitats. While observing plant species, bird species and among others. After finding the gorilla family the tourists are given one hour to be with the presence of the gorillas in their habitats as this is time the tourists can observe the behaviors of the gorillas, how they feed, how they play, taking pictures with them with no flash and videos. That’s the time the tourists can ask all the questions they need to know about the gorillas in the wild to the experienced and knowledgeable guides that answers them with the right information about the gorillas on a gorilla safari in the park.
Hiking Virunga Mountains.
On a Rwanda safari in Volcanoes National Park, the tourists get the opportunities to access and view themselves the Virunga Mountains where you get to spot the various attractions in the park. That’s where you get to spot the beautiful bird species that are present in the park including the Albertine endemic species like Rwenzori Batis, red throated alethe, Pockefeller’s sun bird among others. Other bird species to be sighted includes the blue turaco, long tailed cisticola, Chubb’s cisticola and many others.Travelrs can as well get to watch the primate species in their habitats like the black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkey, and mountain gorillas and among others. The hiking safari in Volcanoes national park gives the tourists the charming safari moments even it helps them to view the twin lakes in Rwanda known as Lake Burera and Lake Ruhondo.
Dian Fossey hike.
A Rwanda safari cannot be fully complete without Dian Fossey hike that takes place in Volcanoes National Park. This is where the tourists get to understand and know about Dian Fossey and her entire contribution of her in Rwanda and the mountain gorilla conservation. Dian Fossey sacrificed almost her life to take care and make thoroughly research on the mountain gorillas through establishing Karisoke research station where she carried various research projects on the sustainability of the mountain gorillas in Africa and where she came up with the findings where the gorilla are highly vulnerable animal species that easily contract diseases. In that reason that’s why it’s advisable during the gorilla trekking safari to keep a distance of 7 meters away from the presence of the mountain gorillas in order to avoid getting in contact with the gorillas that can led to the reducing of the numbers of the mountain gorillas due to diseases in wild.
Dian Fossey is famous in Rwanda majorly in Volcanoes National Park where she came up with many discoveries during her research on the mountain gorillas in Africa. Another reason being that they were alarmingly poached in the wild led to introduction of strict patrols in Volcanoes National Park to stabilize the numbers of mountain gorillas, she snares of poachers, killed their dogs, burnt their houses and during that process she gained more haters, and this ended up found dead in her cabin which was not a surprise. After Dian Fossey’s death she was buried next to her gorilla friend ‘’Digit’’ that was killed by poachers. On Dian Fossey hike in Volcanoes national park will get to see her grave on a Rwanda safari.
Golden monkey trekking.
On a Rwanda safari it’s only in Volcanoes national park where the tourists can experience and carry out golden monkey trekking. Here the tourists gets the best opportunities to watch the endangered golden monkey that are endemic to Albertine rift like the way mountains are in the wild, tourists gets the chance to view the number of features of these primates for super Rwanda safari.
Golden monkey trekking starts with briefing at the park headquarters about the rules to follow while doing the golden monkey trekking. Then after the briefing you can be led by the professional guides in the forest to search for the golden monkeys. That’s a matter of time, immediately after finding the golden monkeys you can be given one hour in their presence while observing, seeing them climbing trees and among others. And you can get the time to take those pictures and videos on a Rwanda safari.
