Virunga National Park

Virunga National Park is a national park in the Albertine Rift Valley in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has a long history dating back to 1925. Virunga National Park has two active volcanoes located within the park: Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira. This is one of the destinations of tourists who love to explore and are not afraid to experience it because this national park is the habitat of many wildlife species with more than 3000 species of animals, vegetation, and flowers.

Virunga National Park is also the site of a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its rich diversity of habitats, exceptional biodiversity and endemism, and its protection of rare mountain gorilla habitat in 1979. Among these, there are particularly endangered primates. extinct species such as mountain gorillas (G. b. beringei), common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), golden monkey, red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus Ascanius), Dent's mona monkey (C. denti), blue monkey (C. mitis) ), Hamlyn's monkey (C. hamlyni), De Brazza's monkey (C. neglectus), Central African red colobus (Procolobus foai), mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), olive baboon (Papio Anubis) and gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena).

Location: WGX7+WP7, Bulambo, Congo - Kinshasa

Refer to: https://www.silverbackgorillatours.com/congo/tourist-attractions-in-congo