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The forest growing back
Gishwati-Mukura National Park
The country's youngest park: two replanted forests, chimpanzees and community tourism.
- From Kigali
- 3.5 hours by road
- Region
- West, Ngororero and Rutsiro
- Best season
- All year, avoiding the heavy April rains
- Book
- About 3 months ahead
Between the volcanoes and Lake Kivu, Gishwati-Mukura brings together two forests: the larger Gishwati and the smaller Mukura. Long cleared, they have been replanted and protected; it is Rwanda's newest park.
Here you follow a small community of chimpanzees, golden monkeys, L'Hoest's monkeys and blue monkeys. Visits are led by guides from neighbouring villages, who make a living from the regrowing forest.