The mountain gorillas are known as gorilla beringei beringei and are noted to be the descendants of the ancestral monkeys which are known to have lived in Africa and Arabia at the beginning of the Oligocene epoch about 34 – 24 million years ago.
Despite the poor record of their evolutionary history, it is believed that the primate group which evolved into gorillas separated from the common ancestor along with the chimpanzees and humans about nine (9) million years ago and the initial relative of mountain gorillas is known as Proconsul Africanus.
The mountain gorillas are known to have separated from the Eastern lowland gorillas about 400,000 years ago while the two are believed to have separated from the western lowland gorillas about 2 million years ago.
Mountain gorilla treks in Uganda are an unforgettable life-time memory experience. Gorilla trekking in Uganda is an amazing captivating search involving long walks following gorilla trails in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park majorly or Mgahinga National Park.
Travel to Africa and Tour Mountain in Uganda deep in the heart of Africa’s most spectacular rain forests. A mountain gorilla trek trip in Bwindi can take anything from 15 minutes to 8 hours, depending on where the Uganda Gorillas are located. At the end of each Gorilla search in Uganda`s thick forested mountains, you will stay for only one hour photographing, admiring, learning and interacting with these great mountains Gorillas or apes.
Uganda gorilla safaris require one to have gorilla permits that are bought in advance to allow one track gorillas because only a maximum of Eight people are allowed to search each gorilla group in Bwindi, and Mgahinga. Uganda has 12 mountain gorilla groups open to tourists and one spends only one hour observing these beautiful mountain Gorillas and taking photos.
Mountain Gorilla trekking Safari in Congo Virunga National Park-Positioned to the Central of Africa, DR. Congo Gorilla Safaris & Tours/ Mount Nyiragongo Volcano Climbing Hiking Safari Tour Trips are among the most authentic African safari adventures that tourists can ever undertake majorly because of her less exploited virgin wilderness.
Democratic Republic of Congo has passed through a series of naming including Belgian Congo from 1908 to 1960 and Zaire from 1971 to 1997. DR. Congo borders a range of African countries including Central African Republic and South Sudan in the north, Republic of the Congo to the North West, Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola to the south west, Zambia to the south, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to the east providing for East Africa combined safaris.
DR Congo Gorilla safari tour trip offers Mountain Gorilla tracking in Virunga National Park Congo Africa. It is a rewarding primate Congo Gorilla Tour Safari package designed to enable you explore the critically endangered Mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo at your own pace.
The gorillas in Congo have been less explored compared to the rest in the region and thus the tour offers an authentic touch of these ancient species in their intact wilderness.