Nyungwe National Park situated in southwestern part of Rwanda, at the extreme border between Rwanda and Burundi in the south, and it borders Lake Kivu as well as Democratic Republic of the Congo on the western part. The remarkable Nyungwe rainforest national park is one of the best preserved and conserved montane rainforest in whole of the Central Africa and the park is one of the attractions responsible for the many safaris and tours to Rwanda. It is positioned in the landmark between the wonderful basin of the river Congo found on the western part of the park and the stunning basin of the world’s longest river Nile positioned on the Eastern part of the park and hence giving it the opportunity to host some interesting eco-systems in the whole of African continent.
Exploring Nyungwe after your gorilla trekking safari to Rwanda will offer one the opportunity to enjoy the remarkable 13 primate species found in the Nyungwe national park and the park contains almost 25% of the total numbers of primates in the whole of African continent. The natural endowed park houses both endangered and threatened primate species and hence taking safaris to Uganda where the park is found offers one with the opportunity to enjoy the sights of these species which are rare and unique and not easily got any where the world.
The remarkable species being the chimpanzee species and these can be easily watched and trekked by any visitor on his primate trekking safaris in Rwanda. The experience of seeing the human brothers living in the forest jungle is very fascinating to visitor.The most recommended species here also include the Rwenzori Colobus as well as the rare Angola colobus which can be only found in the Albertine Rift Valley. The primates in Nyungwe are unique other than other primates in other protected area and the uniqueness is expressed I n the way that these primates move in groups consisting of an estimated number of hundred. The habituated group or troop made up of 400 primate species can be easily found in the campsite Rwenzori Colobus is mainly arboreal as well as acrobatic leaf-eater.
The other interesting types of the monkeysin the park involve the L’Hoest’s monkey, Owl faced monkey, Silver monkey as well as golden monkey red tailed monkey, Vervet monkey, Dent’s Mona monkey plus even the crowned monkeyand Olive baboon which is considered to be a savanna monkey species and not easily sighted along the road through Nyungwe.
In addition to the mentioned species, one can also enjoy the sights of the four nocturnal primates and these can only be seen by the tourist trekking the primates at night and these species almost look like the lemurs found in Madagascar.
