virunga, Congo

Travel Blogs from virunga (7)

Gorilla Trekking!!, Parc National des Virunga, Congo - The Dem. Repub. travel blog
Gorilla Trekking!!
Oct 6, 2005

Whilst in Kisoro we drove the short distance across to the Uganda/Congo (Zaire) border, we passed through immigration with no problems whatsoever! It was actually quite scary being in a war torn country like Congo, the poverty there was like nothing we ...

A travel blog entry by alinmattrtw2005
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Gorilla Trekking, Virunga Rainforest, Congo - The Dem. Repub. travel blog
Gorilla Trekking
Sep 12, 2006

... , they have 1,000,000 shilling notes...worthless and speak French and Swahili so Kenyan boy Stu fitted right in...'You are a Congo Man!' Over the border a 3.5hour drive in old rickety 4x4 with no suspsension before we even began the trek. I was starting to ...

A travel blog entry by bexstable
Twelve Hours in the Congo, Virunga, Congo - The Dem. Repub. travel blog
Twelve Hours in the Congo
Jul 25, 2006

... walking across the Uganda - DRC border and going through Immigration. We then thought we'd be taking a 90 minute jeep ride to Virunga National Park. Instead, it turned out to be a 3 hour bumpy ride. This was after our driver spent 30 minutes trying to ...

A travel blog entry by vannhansen
Gorgeous Gorillas, Virunga National Park, Congo - The Dem. Repub. travel blog
Gorgeous Gorillas
Jan 27, 2006

... yourself from laughing out loud, but we didnt want to wake Humba. Humba and his family live in the Virunga National Park, in a part of the Congo called Albert National Park. Despite UK warning about travel over the border from Uganda to the Congo, we ...

A travel blog entry by rcoales

Forum Discussions on virunga (2)

Know these before traveling to Rwanda
Posted on Oct 18, 2008, 01:44:46
... country is divided into six topographical regions from west to east. (1.) The Great Rift Valley and Lake Kivu. (2.) The volcanic Virunga Mountains and the high lava plains of the northwest. (3.) The Condo-Nile divide and the central plateaux east of the ...
Mountain Gorillas
Posted on Aug 20, 2009, 07:10:20
... life. Rwanda Rwanda has one park in the North of the country encompassing its share of the mountain gorilla population: the Virunga National Park or Parc National des Volcans (PNV). The park covers an area of about 46 square miles and encompasses six ...

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