Are you planning to take gorilla trekking tours and safaris in Africa? The Volcanoes National Park is one among the best suitable for this experience and tourists have great opportunity to take photos of the mountain gorillas; but without the flash since the gorillas can be scared. The photos will also provide a good memory of all the adventurous time you had while tracking the mountain gorillas.

The gorillas are also wild animals; therefore they don’t need to be disrupted since they might be encouraged to harm the tourists. The rangers always brief the tourists at the park headquarters before going to track.

Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park is two hours by car and on good roads from the capital Kigali, is also the closest to an international airport, so the higher cost of the trekking permit is offset by lower local transportation costs and it is possible for a tourist to do one day Rwanda gorilla safaris than in Uganda, where the minimum trip is 3 day gorilla safari and It can easily start from Kigali city which is short distance or longer from the Entebbe International Airport, Uganda.

The Bwindi, by contrast, is ten hours by road from Entebbe and here you can be able to visit some other tourist attractions like Lake Mburo National Park and Lake Bunyonyi on your way to Bwindi, so I can recommend people visiting Bwindi for gorilla trekking to make it a full safari for gorillas, wildlife and holidays.

Mgahinga National park currently has no habituated gorillas for observation the family is called Nyakagezi gorilla family and this group used to be known as the trans-boundary product that is crossing from Mgahinga to Volcanoes and then to Virunga National Parks, but now the Uganda Wildlife Authority has placed several conservation measures to reduce the movement of the primates and this time all year round you can find the family for gorilla tourism.

The Virunga National Park can be reached by half- day road trip from Kigali, but you might encounter delays at the border securing a DRC tourist visa. Therefore if you are planning for your Congo gorilla safaris it is better for your tour operator to arrange for this with the Virunga reservation team.

For your Virunga visit you will experience the hike of mount Nyiragongo and have extraordinary amazing boiling Lava, gorilla trek, chimpanzee habituation and the relaxing stay at the Tchegera Islands Tented Camp that is overlooking the shores of the Lake Kivu.

After the experience to the mountain gorillas you can also visit the Kahuzi Biega National Park in the eastern region of DRC Congo – Bukavu for the Eastern Lowland gorillas.