Top things to do in Nyungwe Forest National Park : Nyungwe Forest National Park is a nature lover’s paradise, offering a wide range of activities that allow visitors to experience themselves in the park’s wonderful and diverse wildlife. As you step into the forest, the sounds of the chirping birds and chattering monkeys and the scent of blooming wildlife flowers fills the air.
Chimpanzee trekking.
Nyungwe forest national park is a home to large number of the chimpanzees which allows the tourists to carry out chimpanzee trekking. Chimpanzees do live majorly in two sections of the park that includes Uwinka area and Cyamudongo section. The chimpanzee trekking starts with a briefing early in the morning at the park headquarters where they give you rules and regulations to follow while trekking the chimpanzees. After the briefing you can be led by the experienced guides to the forest while following the trekking trails to do the trekking and after finding them you are given one hour to be with the presence of chimpanzees.
This is incredible during the gorilla trekking the travelers can come across various wildlife in the park including the various primates like the red tailed monkeys, olive baboon, Vervet monkey, grey-checked manages, bushbabys and among others and spotting various bird species.
Bird watching.
Nyungwe forest national park is the birding haven, which makes the park to be best bird spotting destination where it boasts over 300 bird species. The park is the best choice for the bird lovers where they can be able to spot bird species like Rwenzori batis, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Handsome Francolin, Stripe-breasted, Stripe-breasted Tit, Chestnut Owlet, Regal Sun-bird and many others.
Canopy walks.
Tourists who visit Nyungwe forest national park experience canopy walk as this is the gorgeous safari activity in the park where tourists experience 50 meters high steel canopy bridge that is situated above the treetops. Canopy walk has got 3 walking sections where one has 90 meters longest stretch, 45 meters stretch and 25 meters stretch being the shortest.
The safari activity is adrenaline adventure that takes 2 hours where it starts from the visitors center in Uwinka, as this helps you to explore the beautiful wildlife creatures of the park while moving from up.
Guided nature walks and hiking.
Nature walks in Nyungwe forest national park exposes the tourists to explore the hidden places of the park where the vehicles do not reach, while on foot to the steep landscape of the park, while using the different number of trails that encounters the tourists to the various features of the park biodiversity.
Gisakura plantation tour.
Tourists do explore outside the park through visiting Gisakura tea plantation tour that is located at the edge of Nyungwe Forest National Park, as this magical expression while viewing the beautiful tea plantation as during a visit the tourists can participate in activities like tea picking, interacting with the local farmers. The tourists use the different trails as they are carrying out the nature walks like the Umuyove trail, Karamba trail, Umugote trail where the tourists are heading in the areas that are in the place.
Where to stay in Nyungwe forest national park.
Tourists who come to visit Nyungwe forest national park are provided with variety of accommodation facilities that provide comfortable zone to the tourists that are grouped in to Budget, Mid-range and luxuries which includes Nyungwe top vie hill hotel, Nyungwe forest lodge, Gisakura guest house, other guests can adopt camping to experience the wilderness in the park and among many others.
