Gorilla Trekking Congo

GORILLA TREKKING IN CONGO

Democratic Republic of Congo is currently the last country where visitors can still experience Africa. If peace and good governance structures were established, then Congo could easily become the leading tourism destination in the entire Africa. Democratic Republic of Congo is the best safari destination were the visitors can trek both the mountain gorillas and their Eastern lowland cousins in the wild. The destination is the best country for seeing the eastern lowland gorillas. Gorilla trekking in Congo is such a very exciting Congo safari experience where the visitors explore the jungles while looking for the gorillas in their natural habitats.

Where to do gorilla trekking in Congo.

Gorilla trekking safari in Congo is done in different two safari destinations that is in Virunga national park, Kahuzi Biega national park that’s why most of the tourists come for gorilla trekking in the country because it’s done in different safari destinations which makes the activity to become massive.

Gorilla trekking in Virunga national park.

Virunga national park is one of the best destination with diversity in Africa famous for the mountain gorilla trekking or the gorilla tours, harboring with more than a half of what’s in sub Saharan Africa in the concentrated in this park.

Gorilla trekking in Virunga national park is the reason to why most travelers do come for a Congo safari. Gorilla trekking in Virunga national park Congo is one of the authentic safari experience for tourists interested in the full Congo experience. The gorilla trekking in the park starts from Bukima Ranger post where you can be given a brief about the rules, regulation, expectations during the gorilla trekking by the park rangers. After the briefing you can be grouped in to various groups, according to your strengths, age, fitness level then the park rangers, porters led you to the forest to search for the mountain gorillas while following the right trails. Along the way searching for the mountain gorillas you can spot the various wildlife located in the park.

Gorilla trekking in Virunga national park takes a period of about 30 minutes to 5 hours depending on the location of the mountain gorillas, then after immediately you get to spot the mountain gorillas you will encounter the silverback that is identified by the grey hair in the lower part, then the tourists can be given 1 hour to be with the presence of the mountain gorillas in their habitants while taking photos and recording them videos, watching them play, feed, observing their behaviors and among others.

Gorilla trekking in Kahuzi Biega national park.

Kahuzi Biega is the biggest national park on a Congo safari. The park is the thrilling biodiversity of the rainforest habitat and its Eastern lowland gorillas. Kahuzi Biega national park is the reason to why most travelers on a Congo safari enjoy looking at the Eastern Lowland gorillas. This is where the travelers get the opportunity of admiring the world’s largest species of primates.

Gorilla trekking in Kahuzi Biega national park is the most rewarding activity that every tourist can take on a Congo safari where the tourists gets the information and you understand more about the endangered primate species. On Congo safari Kahuzi Biega national park where you can spot the eastern lowland gorillas and interesting and different type of gorilla species from those in Volcanoes national park, Bwindi impenetrable national park, Mgahinga gorilla national park.

Gorilla trekking in Kahuzi Biega national park starts with a briefing in the morning about the rules and regulations about gorilla trekking at the park headquarters. After the briefing you can be grouped into various groups where each group can be given a park guide/ranger that take you deep in the jungle to look for the eastern lowland gorillas that differ from the mountain gorillas. The activity takes a period of about 30 minutes to 5 hours depending on the location of the gorillas.

 During gorilla trekking in Kahuzi Biega through hiking the forests you will also get the chance to see a number of the features like the exciting dormant mountains Kahuzi and Biega and among many others. after finding out the eastern lowland gorillas you can be given a period of one hour to be with the presence of the eastern lowland gorillas while watching their behaviors in the wild, watching their feeding patterns, how they co-exist one another, how they make nests for their next nights, grooming ways. During that one hour that’s when you take the photos and record the videos of the eastern gorillas as they are in their habitants that you will take to show people home after the end of the safari.