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Mgahinga National Park
A guide to attractions in Mgahinga National Park in Western Uganda where activities include gorilla trekking, together with map, video and fees. This is the most southern of the national parks in Uganda, stretching into Rwanda, and takes its name from "Gahinga" - a local word for volcanic stones. It is also the smallest national park in Uganda but one of the most popular being home to mountain gorillas and the golden monkeys. Sitting high in the clouds and surrounded by dense forest, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is also home the indigenous Batwa pygmy people who lives are dominated by three extinct volcanoes that form part of the Virunga Mountains straddling trhe borders of Rwanda, DRC and Uganda. |
