Back Into The Wild East With Endangered Mountain Gorillas

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Whether you are a wildlife enthusiast or a conservationist looking for blissful encounter with the wild, a adventure lover looking for wild adventures with Gorilla families, a trekker who loves to climb mountains filled with dense forests replete with wildlife, a wildlife photographer looking to capture unforgettable images of giant primates like Rwanda Gorillas or Uganda mountain Gorillas playing in the wild, a nature lover wanting to soak in the splendor of wild Africa, Umubanotours has customized tours and travel solutions for all. If you are planning to have an up and close encounter with Mountain Gorillas, then it has to Rwanda Gorilla Safaris and Uganda Gorilla Tours.

Rwanda is a land of great diversity and beauty. From startlingly tranquil lakes to misty rainforest and rolling grass plains, the country dubbed 'The Land of a Thousand Hills' is a landlocked jewel. Rwanda is a lush country of endless mountains and stunning scenery and nowhere are the mountains more majestic than the peaks of the Virunga volcanoes in the far Northwestern Rwanda. The volcanoes form a natural frontier with the Democratic Republic of ...
... Congo (DRC) and Uganda, and hidden among the bamboo and dense jungle of their forbidding slopes are some of the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas. Umubano gives you the life-time opportunity to encounter these contemplative creatures at close quarters that continues to draw visitors to Rwanda. With Umubano Tours, you can experience all the natural highlights when you travel to Rwanda! In other words, we offer you a sojourn to one of the most the memorable jungle safari that ranges from the Genocide Memorial sites in Kigali to the wilderness in Akagera, the African jungle in Nyungwe Forest and the Virunga Volcanoes in Volcanoes National Park. Needless to say, Rwanda is popular for 2 highlights of the place i.e. Rwanda Gorillas and Volcanoes National Park.

At Umubano we specialize in gorilla tours and safaris in Uganda and Rwanda. As award-winning pioneers in eco-tourism we ensure our safaris respect the culture of local communities, the fragility of the environment and the need to use resources in a sustainable way. Your safari will explore these diverse and truly unique ecosystems and the landscapes, creating a distinctive and memorable Rwanda gorilla Safaris and Uganda Gorilla tours for you! Your sojourn with the Rwandan and Uganda Gorillas will last exactly an hour before these giants shrug of their gentleness. In between you can see them play, rest and mingle among themselves and capture the moments to cherish for a lifetime. If you still have time and energy left you could go for small Golden Monkey trek to virunga mountains nearby, another endangered species of primates found only at volcano national park. The Golden Monkey trekking in the Volcanoes National Park, entering dense stands of bamboo interspersed with open glades; you will make your way deep into golden monkey territory. Though viewing is kept to a maximum of one hour, travelers can get an up-close look at the golden monkey in its natural habitat, frolicking in plain view, feeding on bamboo leaves and leaping from perch to perch. Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda is also famous for Rwandan Gorilla Safaris in northwestern part of the country. Spanning on a 160sqkm area in the northern part of Rwanda, Volcanoes national park is the oldest national park in Africa. Long winding road through the mountains overlooking tea, banana and coffee plantations gives you a mesmerizing experience. After reaching the park you would be briefed about the do’s and don’ts of encountering the world biggest primate the silverback male gorilla weighing over 200 kilos and his group. Thereafter you will trek about 2-6 hours before coming face to face with the gentle giants of Africa as each gorilla group spreads around a 40 km radius. You will spend an hour with great primates watching them play, rest and eat and capture images which you can cherish for a lifetime. In short, Volcanoes national park in Rwanda is the most rewarding Rwanda Gorilla Safaris destination.

If you find Travel to Rwanda exciting, then Umubanotours will ensure that your tour to neighboring Uganda is simply mind blowing. Known as the ‘Pearl of Africa’, Uganda is home to some of the most scenic landscapes of Africa. Not to mention the majestic Uganda Mountain Gorillas found in Bwindi national park out of which only 300 are left, after resuscitating from extinction. During your Uganda Gorilla Tour, through steep mountain slopes and thick undergrowth, you will reach the Uganda Mountain Gorillas territory, where you will be able to see the Gorilla family playing, resting and eating under the watchful eyes of the dominant silverback male. After spending some quality time with the giant apes and capturing some unforgettable pictures for lifelong memories to reminiscence you will head back to your lodge overlooking the legendary mountains of the moon.

Umubanotours offer the tourist highly customized tours of the four countries of east central Africa depending on the time, wishlist and budget of its customers, in a safe, friendly environment free from nitty-gritty and hassels of Great African Safari. The timing of the tours ranges from one day to fourteen days to suite the taste of the visitors at a affordable rate. The company has at its disposal highly trained English and French speaking guides, having vast knowledge of east-central African outback, to make the safari as comfortable as possible in the African wilderness. The company also ropes in the indigenous communities having ancient wisdom about the African game safari, providing them livelihood and chance to communicate with the outside civilized world through Eco-tourism.

So, contact Umubano Tours today to enjoy the ultimate Rwanda Gorilla Safari which will set your adrenaline pumping by exploration of the magnificent flora and fauna in the ravishing landscape of wild east-central Africa.