Chimpanzee Trekking Tours in Nyungwe Forest are among the top primate’s trekking activities that tourists targeting Rwanda among their travel destination should not miss out as it is appreciable by many visitors and most rewarding while encountering with these black colored, lighter skinned face and large eared great apes. Nyungwe National Park located in south west Rwanda is a vast area rich in biodiversity and spectacularly beautiful creating a comfortable home to many species of Chimpanzees and other primates like different types of monkeys.
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, they share 98.7percent of our genetic blue prints and they are also believed to share with us a common ancestor who lived some seven to 13 million years ago. In Rwanda Chimpanzees can be found in three main places Nyungwe National Park which covers Nyungwe Forest and Cyamudongo forest and Gishwati Mukura National Park of which Nyungwe National Park has the highest population of Chimpanzees (over 400 individuals) and other 13 primate’s species in total. There are two chimpanzee communities that have been partially habituated in Nyungwe National Park and most of them live in Nyungwe Forest (60 individuals) while the rest are found in Cyamudongo Forest (30 individuals) which makes your Chimpanzee Tour a fantastic experience with no doubt of missing on the chimps.
In so many ways a Chimpanzee Trekking Tours in Rwanda is uniquely different from other primate’s tours like for the endangered Mountain Gorillas tour as the Chimpanzees are lighter, stubborn and mobile always constantly moving around at high speeds, jumping from different tree branches to the others making noise unlike the Gorillas which are gentle and peaceful always found sitting quietly feeding on their herbs and stems in their home environment thus giving you a special encounter with great memories once you take part in this tour however there is a similarity between a Chimpanzee Trekking Tour and a Gorilla Trekking Safari in Rwanda whereby after being briefed on your trekking day at the park headquarters and spending some hours in search of the chimps, on finding them you are always entitled to one hour of spending with the great apes to watch and enjoy them, observe their features, take pictures, learn their behaviors in the jungle and enjoy nature in their real home which similarly applies to the Gorillas.
Chimpanzee Trekking Tours in Nyungwe Forest can be so easy to carry out as just one day can be enough especially for tourists who tend to have very limited time for adventure normally those popping into the country for business meetings/conferences however this tour can also be included in a safari with more days and many activities in different National Parks within Rwanda and East Africa entirely.
