Virunga National Park Congo

Virunga National park was created in 1925 by King Albert I of Belgium as the first national park on the continent of Africa. It was founded primarily to protect the mountain gorillas living in the forests of the Virunga Mountains that were controlled by the Belgian Congo covering Rwanda & Uganda, but later expanded north to include the Rwindi Plains, Lake Edward and the Rwenzori Mountains in the far north. Among Virunga's numerous species of wildlife, the park is home to approximately 200, a quarter, of the world's critically endangered mountain gorillas that live on the slopes of the Virunga volcano ranger which includes active Nyiragongo volcano and the largest lava lake in the world. Virunga National Park is a well known destination for mountain gorilla tracking and they are found the sector of Montane Tropical forest, go gorilla trekking in congo & Nyiragongo hike on A 3 Days Gorilla Safari tour.