Golden monkey trekking is an awesome adventure experience which takes place in Volcanoes and Nyungwe forest national park,however golden trekking is most popular and famous in volcanoes national earth closeist national which 160km and 2 hours drive from Kigali Rwanda’s largest city. Rwanda is described as the land of a thousand hills because of the nature of the landscape making it a unique destination.
Volcanoes national park was part of Albert national park present today Virunga national park is Africa’s oldest protected area, because of Rwanda – Congo independence the national park was divided into parts, this formed the volcanoes and Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Golden monkeys are among the listed endangered rare species and Volcanoes national park currently volcanoes national park has two habituated golden monkeys’ troop’s members.
In Nyungwe forest, there 13 primates found in the forest, including the unconfirmed sightings of the golden monkeys that have also been reported. Like chimpanzee trekking and nature of the chimpanzees are closely related to golden monkey species as they spend time in trees.
Like gorilla trekking, golden monkey trekking in the volcanoes national park golden monkey trekking start as early as 7:00am with hot coffee, later go to the park headquarter for briefing, rally behind your reange atrek and until you encounter them. Enjoy watching the rare endangered species.
Golden monkey require permits organized by park authorities at a given fee to purchase them and can be booked in advance, since trekking is restricted to a certain number of trekkers/people.
Golden monkeys trekking in Rwanda is done in the bamboo vegetation towards the base of the volcanoes and habituation has helped them to overcome their initial shyness to accept their daily visit by researchers and tourists.
Golden monkeys and gorillas trekking adventure experience related in their natural setting. However, golden monkey trekking is trekked by a small group of not more than eight people, on finding them, observe them and you can spend one hour with the monkeys taking pictures and videos.
The endangered species are very active creatures, and jump from tree to tree which is really interesting and a little difficult to photographs and capturing video.
Golden monkeys trekking can be done in Uganda in Mgahinga gorilla national at the extreme corner of Uganda bordering Congo Virunga, Rwanda volcanoes national park and these formed largest conservation project of Virunga responsible for gorilla protection and conservation. This has project the endangered species.
