The canopy walk
Over a green valley.
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Nyungwe National Park is a mountain rainforest in south-west Rwanda, covering about 1,019 square kilometres and perhaps the best preserved of its kind in Africa. It runs along the Burundi border and reaches close to Lake Kivu. It is known for a walkway hung above the trees, for chimpanzee tracking and for large troops of colobus monkeys. It lies on the watershed between the Congo basin to the west and the Nile basin to the east, and one of the streams feeding the Nile rises on its eastern side. The park was established in 2004 and holds forest, bamboo, grassland and bogs, as well as Mount Bigugu at 2,921 metres. Walking trails run for long distances through its valleys. The best-known sight is the canopy walk, a narrow bridge of cable and netting that takes you over the treetops with a green valley below. In the branches you may see black-and-white colobus and L'Hoest's monkeys, and hear chimpanzees calling in the morning. The main road cuts through the forest between two walls of green, and the hills turn blue at sunset. It is about 52 km from Huye in a straight line. The UK Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to parts of Rusizi District within 10 km of the DR Congo border, including Kamembe Airport, so enter from the Huye side. Bring a rain jacket and strong shoes, and be ready early for chimp tracking, which starts around dawn.
Over a green valley.
Black-and-white troops.
Between walls of green.
South-west Rwanda, on the Burundi border
It is high and sways a little, but netting encloses it, so decide by your comfort, or keep to the ground trails.
No, as the groups move a lot, though rangers track them early in the morning.