TOP ACTIVITIES IN NYUNGWE NATIONAL PARK

Top Activities in Nyungwe National Park : Nyungwe national park is the primate hub of Rwanda that tourists interested in watching and understanding the different primate species in the country as they have wonderful adventures witnessing a variety of primate species in the country. Nyungwe national park Is one of the national parks in Rwanda that have put in place and exercised a number of covid-19 safety pre cautions by its park management and the different service providers like the guide rangers that interact with the tourists to ensure that covid-19 in Rwanda is combated by ensuring that the visiting guests adhere to the pre-cautions to avoid the spread of the virus making their activity quite unbearable.

Some of the covid-19 safety measures that are carried out in Nyungwe national park like urging tourists to disinfect and sanitize their hands before they participate in the different activities in Nyungwe national park, they are advised to maintain physical distance from one another to avoid the spread of the virus in case you come in contact with contaminated surfaces among other covid-19 safety measures in Rwanda that will ensure you participate in the top activities in Nyungwe national park for a memorable Rwanda safari.

Chimpanzee trekking

Chimpanzee trekking in Rwanda is the most amazing experience that you should not miss out on as you participate in the top activities in Nyungwe national park. Chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe national park should not be missed out on for a memorable experience.  The chimpanzees are the most dominant species in the park and these are habituated in cyamudongo forest and Nyungwe forest where tourists will have the chance to spend an hour with the habituated troops understanding their different behaviors of the species in the wild as you observe how they carry out their different activities like their feeding patterns which involves a number of invertebrates like centipedes, caterpillars and in seasons where fruit is readily available, they can be seen eating more fruit than edible leaves, wild celery and many other interesting features of the primates. During the activity, you will get the chance to see a number of rewarding species like numerous bird species like he blue turaco, Ross’s turaco, coqui Francolin, long tailed cisticola, bubbling cisticola, Miombo wren warbler, Chubb’s cisticola Primate species like the vervet monkey, dent’s monkey, Hamlyn’s monkey and many other interesting features that you will find rewarding.

Hiking the different trails in the park

While you visit Nyungwe national park you should not forget taking part in hiking the different hiking trails in Nyungwe national park. Nyungwe national park is home to a number of hiking trails that will lead you to a number of rewarding attractions that will ensure will have an amazing experience during your participation in the top activities in Nyungwe national park.  Some of the trails that should not be missed out on include the ishigishigi trail that will lead you to the canopy walk way that will offer rewarding views of the park from an aerial view, you can hike the karamba birding trail which will give you the chance to see a number of bird species like he blue turaco, Ross’s turaco, coqui Francolin, long tailed cisticola, bubbling cisticola, Miombo wren warbler, Chubb’s cisticola.

You can also participate in the Isumo waterfalls hike which will lead you to the waterfalls which will lead you  a number of rewarding attractions like the primate species in the park, you will see a number of mammals quenching their thirst from the water, you will get to see numerous bird species as well for an amazing experience in the park.

Canopy walk

Understand more about the wildlife population in the park as you participate in top activities in Nyungwe national park. The metallic walk way is quite an adventure with a number of attractions that can be seen like from an aerial view in the park, the walk way is divided among three stretches all of which will open up new sceneries in the park for instance the views of the wildlife like the bird species, mammal species, butterfly species and many other attractions like the white colobus, Angola colobus, red tailed monkey, blue monkey, owl faced monkeys other animal species like the golden cats, duikers,, giraffes, lions, buffalos chimpanzees jumping from tree to tree. Butterfly species for instance the graphium- gudunesi, metisella- articolla, zenonia- crasta, charaxes-mafuga among others which offers a breathtaking experience to the tourists that take part in the activity of canopy walks.

Birding

Birders should participate in birding in Nyungwe National Park as part of the top activities in Nyungwe national park given the different varieties of the bird species that can be seen during the activity. Nyungwe national park was declared by the birdlife international as anis Important Bird Area with a number of bird species that can be seen making it one of the destinations that should be visited interested in watching a number of bird species like; 25 endemic species of the Albertine Rift, like Pockefellers’s sun bird, Chapin’s flycatcher, Rwenzori Batis, strange weaver, red throated alethe, 11 species of the Guinea Congo Forest biome, and a number of other bird species like the blue turaco, Ross’s turaco, coqui Francolin, long tailed cisticola, bubbling cisticola, Miombo wren warbler, Chubb’s cisticola and many other bird species. Interesting about the activity is the fact that you will also get the chance to see a number of other attractions like primate species for instance the black and white colobus monkeys, l’hoest’s monkey, grey cheeked Mangabey, red tailed monkey and so many more making your activity quite rewarding.