KAHUZI BIEGA NATIONAL PARK , GORILLA SAFARIS
Kahuzi Biega National Park located in the South Kivu province, just around 30kms from Bukavu is the home of low land Gorillas, Don’t miss the opportunity of seeing them, whatever it will costs, because the experience is guaranteed to be worth 20 times that. seeing a lion while you’ are protected in vehicle is one thing, crawling through bamboo forest for several hours and founding a silver back gorilla standing just a few meters, in front of you is a quite another. You will never forget looking into a gorilla’s brown, intelligent, curious eyes staring unblinking at you.
There are also plenty of extinct volcanoes to see in the Park. These extinct volcanoes are the Kahuzi and the Biega volcanoes. The present gorillas are well protected from poaches as well as a plethora of other animals and plants in the park.
The species there are eastern lowland gorilla and not Mountain Gorillas found in Virunga national park. Unlike the chimpanzee-like lowland gorillas found in Gabon and Congo Brazzaville, The Kahuzi-Biega Gorillas are large about the size of mountain Gorilla, so you definitely won’t be disappointed. Weighing up to 200kg, one these gorillas can kill you in seconds.
The park is mountainous jungle area, there is numerous gorillas families in the park as well as chimpanzees; monkeys, buffalos, antelopes, and forest elephants, which you probably won’t see, only four of the gorillas families has been conditioned to accept human visitors. Finding them takes normally one to two hours, so may back in Bukavu by early afternoon.
Others attractions in Kahuzi-Biega
Park visitor can also hire a Guide a guide at park headquarter to them to the summit of Mt Kahuzi 3308metres, winch takes three hours from the base to the top, or to Mt Bugulumiza
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