Africa Pleasant Safaris is a Ugandan registered Travel Entity, specializing in Air Ticketing, Travel Consultancy services and Safaris/Adventures. We boast of a rich string of corporate clients who have contributed to a consistence growth of business through the years.
Uganda’s smallest park (33.7Km) protects mountain gorillas and other fauna on the Ugandan slopes of the Virunga volcanoes. Through small in size, Mgahinga contains a dramatic, panoramic backdrop formed by three volcanoes. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park covers the slopes of Muhuvura, Gahinga and Sabinyo at an altitude of between 2,227m near Ntebeko Park HQ and 4,127m on the summit of Mt. Muhuvura.
Through small in size, just 33.7km, it adjoins Volcanoes NP in Rwanda and Virunga NP in Congo. Collectively, these three parks form the transboundary Virunga Conservation Area (VCA). The most famous inhabitant of Mgahinga and the VCA is the endangered mountain gorilla. Gorilla conservation on the Virungas dates back to 1925 when the Belgians gazette the portion of the range in present day Congo and Rwanda as a national park to present mountain gorillas.
The British administration declared the Ugandan section as a game sanctuary in 1930. This was upgraded to national park status in 1991. Mgahinga’s three volcanoes provide a dramatic and distinctive backdrop to regional scenery and each has been named descriptively in the local language. Gahinga is the smallest of the Virunga peaks and its name means small pile of stones; a comparison with the cairns piled by local farmers when clearing boulder-strewn land. The lofty Muhuvura is an important landmark and its names means ‘the guide’ while that of the distinctive Mt. Sabinyo, with its rough, jagged crown, translates as ‘old man’s teeth’.
