Primates watching in Nyungwe-Rwanda

Nyungwe Forest National Park is located in the southwest of Rwanda and it is a vast tropical forest with beautiful a high canopy and there are lots of tourists who are interested in having the canopy walk every time they visit Nyungwe forest.  A trip can start with the guided walk/hike the trails and you’ll go through the old mahoganies, ebonies and giant tree ferns tower, there are orchids and other epiphytes cling to every branch. Among other attractions are colored birds, butterflies, among others.

Nyungwe Forest is one of the largest of montane forest left in East or Central Africa and it’s a home to 275 different birds, hundreds of butterflies and orchids, and more than 75 different species of mammals, among which is 13 primates

One of the best activities you can do is have forest walks that last for one to six or seven hours, there is the chimpanzees track, you can search for the colobus monkeys usually found here in troupes of several hundred. There are other primates like the l’Hoest’s monkey, the grey-cheeked mangabey. The bird life is spectacular in most tropical forests. 

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