The real adventure
The Nyungwe Forest Canopy Walk is a very impressive experience in Rwanda’s Nyungwe Forest National Park. This park is the only one in East Africa that offers canopy walking safaris. Nyungwe Forest National Park is one of the reasons Rwanda has become the number one travel destination in the world. This forest is the largest protected montane forest in Africa, covering 1600 to 2000 square meters and is a 5-6 hours drive from central Rwanda-Kigali. This medium drive to Nyungwe gives guests the sumptuous and tremendous treat to explore the country’s diverse and endless landscapes cruising in the sharp corners en-route to the main attractions. Proceed for great canopy walk that usually takes 2 hours starting the journey from Uwinka Tourist Reception Centre. The first 200 meters are walked along forest trails under a dense canopy, admiring nature close to the ground before heading to the canopy trails. Notable sightings include blue monkeys, L’Hoest monkeys, black-and-white colobus, red-tailed macaques, birds, and the forest’s most famous inhabitants
The canopy bridge Height
The Nyungwe forest Canopy Walk Experience is one of the most amazing and exacting Nyungwe National Park tourist activities, providing visitors with the most gorgeous view of almost entire Nyungwe mist-blanketed forests. Suspended on a metal bridge above a deep and narrow gorge in the heart of dense tropical rain forests, covered walkway that is raised 70 meters above the woodland floor and 160 meters long is a complete clean and interesting guided visitor pastime in Nyungwe National Park that provides excellent views of tree tops and wildlife encounters within the park. Nyungwe National Park is unquestionably one of Africa’s most historic and largest tropical and montane rain forests, situated over a huge area of steep slopes within the Great Rift Valleys
Canopy Excursion Time
The Nyungwe Forest Canopy Walk Experience is a non-strenuous walking excursion that lasts a few hours, trekking alongside the rated clean 2.1 km long Igishigishigi road or other Nyungwe trekking trails such as the Umuyove or Imbaraga trail which is remarked as a difficult hike in the park. Joining one of Nyungwe’s various tourism activities, such as the Nyungwe National Park hiking trails, is the ideal way to explore Nyungwe National Park. The Nyungwe Canopy Walk experience is available at various times throughout the day, beginning at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and finishing at 3:00 PM. You can combine this incredible experience with additional activities to discover a variety of Nyungwe National Park attractions.
The fee for the canopy walk in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park is $40 per person for international visitors. However there will be need for park entry fees of 60$ making it 100$ ,150$ if you are staying for 2 nights and $200 for those spending 3 nights. East African ex-pats -foreign residents pay $60 and $10 EAC community
Location
Nyungwe National Park is located in Rwanda's southern province, from Kigali with an estimated street distance of 218 kilometers covering 5-6 hours however, There are numerous ways to get to the park, and the best way is to use street delivery, but the fastest way is to use helicopter flights to Nyungwe National Park, which are scheduled helicopter transfers from Kigali International Airport to Nyungwe operated by Akagera Aviation and take only 45 minutes. There are additional scheduled domestic flights from Kigali to Kamembe operated by Rwanda Air, with a street switch from Kamembe to Kigali. Nyungwe National Park is an iconic primate habitat where you can get magnificent journey reviews that involve enchanting encounters with first-rare monkeys such as owl faced monkeys and chimps. If you want to have a more in-depth experience in Rwanda, you can combine your Nyungwe cover stroll experience with other Nyungwe activities by going to Volcanoes National Park for Gorilla hiking safaris, Golden Monkey hiking and trekking adventures, and Akagera National Park for thrilling natural world safari reviews
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