Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Vs Virunga National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Vs Virunga National Park is a simple comparison of the 2 national parks and one can get to know which is better than the other. The two parks are located in Africa. The two National parks inhabit the Mountain Gorillas, currently the most endangered subspecies in the world and going extinct.
Mountain Gorillas in the jungle is the most breathing and amazing unforgettable experience to encounter on your safari. Having a face to face encounter with the mountain Gorillas on unforgettable experience for all the trekkers on the safari, one should plan where to trek on the 3 countries inhabiting the Mountain Gorillas in the forest including Bwindi Impenetrable National park, Mgahinga National park in Uganda, Volcanoes National park in Rwanda and Virunga National park.
For tourists to trek the Mountain Gorillas during the safari, they have to first have the idea of the trekking experience, prices, distance, hardness, and other added activities to encounter during the Gorilla trekking process in Bwindi Impenetrable National park and Virunga National park.
For tourists to enjoy the amazing encounter of the Mountain Gorillas, it is very important to get enough information which concerns comparing the Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National park and Virunga National park. Therefore this question is asked by a number of tourists, who would like to compare the two countries for Mountain Gorilla trekking.
Mountain Gorilla trekking in Uganda is most favored in Bwindi Impenetrable National park and some inhabit in Mount Mgahinga National park.
Mgahinga National park is included on the Virunga ranges together with the other national parks including Virunga and Volcanoes national park. However Mgahing national park has only one habituated Gorillas family.
Bwindi Impenetrable National park is home to over 400 Mountain Gorillas, which is part of the world’s endangered species in the world protecting 15 habituated Mountain Gorillas. The park is more affordable for trekking, the permit costs 600USD per a day, the Mountain Gorilla permit sometimes affects the decision of visitors which concerns the trekkers on the decision regarding the Gorilla permit, whereby they end up choosing Uganda for trekking Gorilla as the perfect destination for Mountain Gorilla trekking.
However, trekking the Mountain Gorillas in Uganda is further and harder than trekking in Rwanda.
Trekking Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National park on your safari involves another activity called Gorilla habituation process where one spends 4 hours with the Mountain Gorillas which is different from Gorilla trekking where you have to spend one hour with the Mountain Gorillas.
Gorilla habituation experience permit costs 1500USD per person per day for four days which is better than paying 1500USD in Rwanda to watch Mountain Gorillas trekking for 1 hour day.
Bwindi Impenetrable National park which inhabits the Mountain Gorilla in Uganda, besides there other National parks in Uganda to a total of 10 national parks compared in Rwanda with 3 national parks.
You can Combine your Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National park with a visit to Kibale National park as the highest concentration of Chimpanzees in Africa, Mountain Elgon, Murchison falls, Queen Elizabeth National park, Lake Mburo National park, Kidepo National park, enjoy rafting on the Nile in Jinja, as well as a culture, encounters among other activities.
Bwindi Impenetrable National park is far away from Entebbe International airport, however, the journey is very tiresome especially for those are not having any stopover in other National parks on the way.
It takes 9 to 10 hours drive from Entebbe or Kampala City to Bwindi Impenetrable National, for those who prefer to fly to the park you can opt to schedule for a flight to the park.
Virunga National park the park is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the central part of Africa. Despite the challenges which are related to Goma political unrest, trekking the Mountain Gorillas in Virunga National park is very cheap, actually, the park is the cheapest across the three countries inhabiting the Mountain Gorillas, at a cost of 400USD you can pay for a purchase of Congo Gorilla trekking permit for foreigners and at 150 USD for Congolese. The park is one of Africa’s oldest parks it’s the highest biodiversity.
It stands as a very unique destination with amazing features such as the Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Volcano this erupted in the year of 2011.
The park rangers and the conservationist committee have put more efforts over the years to manage to raise the number of Mountain Gorillas from 76 to 300 individuals inhabiting the Virunga ranges.
There 7 habituated Gorilla families in the Virunga National park, the number of Gorilla family keeps changing when there is a new family member added, or when the new group of gorillas decides to move from Rwanda.
Surprisingly Mountain Gorillas can be found on the border with Rwanda and Uganda. Recently after the research conducted the number of tourists has increased since the year of 2014, this was the reopening of the park after a long period of time. The Park does not only inhabit Mountain Gorillas however chimpanzee habituation also takes place.
So since there is a comparison between Bwindi Impenetrable National park Vs Virunga national park, one should consider the distance of the park from the point of arrival, the number of habituated Mountain Gorillas, accommodations, weather conditions, safety and other activities around the park.
But for the cheapest Gorilla trekking, the Democratic Republic of Congo is the best country with the cheap cost of Gorilla permit, the permit is affordable and very easy to get to the park from Kigali international Airport then drive for 3 hours to cross to Goma. However, you should take note of safety precautions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
There are other activities to encounter including Mountain Hiking at Nyiragongo.
The second option to trek the Mountain Gorillas is Uganda, where the permit is affordable at 600USD per person. The accommodation facilities are also affordable, ranging from luxury lodges, budget facilities depending on which sector to trek the Mountain Gorillas.
The safari is amazing with incredible memories to trek the Mountain Gorillas in the world within the 2 National parks Bwindi Impenetrable National park and Virunga National park.
