Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda

Travel Blogs from Parc National des Volcans (5)

Gorilla Tracking Day 1:  Susa Group, Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda travel blog
Gorilla Tracking Day 1: Susa Group
Feb 24, 2008

... trek.  Breakfast was at 5:30 am and we left the lodge at 6 am in order to drive to the gate of the Volcano National Park.  At the gate we gathered with the other wazungo (Swahili for white people, or foreigners in our case) to be split off into ...

A travel blog entry by paulandmel
Gorilla Tracking Day 2:  Amahoro Group, Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda travel blog
Gorilla Tracking Day 2: Amahoro Group
Feb 25, 2008

Getting to Susa exhausted us.  We gratefully took a bush shower, ate dinner and collapsed into bed.  We were not looking forward to another round of fighting the dense stinging bush.  However, the thought of seeing more gorillas kept us ...

A travel blog entry by paulandmel
Volcanoes Virunga Lodge, Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda travel blog
Volcanoes Virunga Lodge
Feb 23, 2008

... the beautiful hills of Rwanda as we made our way from Kigali to the northern part of the country and the Volcano National Park.  The last Saturday of each month was a national "cleaning day" and Paul proudly explained that communities would gather ...

A travel blog entry by paulandmel
Gorillas in the mud, Ruhengeri / Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda travel blog
Gorillas in the mud
Aug 10, 2006

... note, meaning all our money was fake. Only it wasn't. We started off getting a friendly reception as we drove through Rwanda, and then kids started throwing rocks at us, possibly because Robert ran over one of their footballs, or becauseof the huge ...

A travel blog entry by froglin81

Forum Discussions on Parc National des Volcans (4)

Destination Rwanda: Kigali Travel & Vacations
Posted on Mar 30, 2009, 04:51:54
... one of the foremost travel destinations in Africa. Rwanda is an interesting travel destination owing to the fact that Parc National des Volcans, its main tourist attraction, hosts more than 3/4 of the 600 or so world remaining mountain gorillas. Read ...
Know these before traveling to Rwanda
Posted on Jan 19, 2009, 03:46:24
If you only do three things in Rwanda..... 1). Look a gorilla in the eye in the Parc National des Volcans; 2). Learn about the 1994 genocide at Kigali Memorial Centre; 3). Watch acrobatic Colobus monkeys on a walking trail around Nyungwe National Park. ...
Uganda vs Rwanda - Gorilla Tracking
Posted on Mar 24, 2009, 13:01:21
... Rwanda has progressed enormously, and with approximately half of the world's mountain gorillas accessible through the Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda's tourism is booming. Tracking gorillas in Rwanda is a highlight of the country, but as far as ...
Mountain Gorillas
Posted on Aug 20, 2009, 07:10:20
... 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 volcanoes. Despite the ...