Covering 970 km2 and stretching over the rolling hills of South-Western Rwanda, Nyungwe National Park is Africa?s last remaining high-altitude virgin forest (1,600 to 3,000 metres) .Due its incredible diversity of landscape, flora and fauna it plays an important conservation role, and various local and international scientific projects take place here.

Nyungwe is known for a variety of at least 250 different types of trees and hundreds of different flowering plants including more than 100 species of orchids and the unique giant lobelia. Every visit to the Park offers an atmospheric jungle experience with the melodious songs of more than 300 species of birds (25 regional endemics of the 'Albertine Rift'), 13 different types of primates, beautiful butterflies and even the occasional leopard, golden cat or bush pig. Not only are a quarter of Africa?s primate species present in Nyungwe, but visitors can also experience the largest ever recorded colobus monkey colony and over 500 chimpanzees.