Rwanda presents a number of scenic opportunities for interaction with wildlife, one of which is gorilla photography. Capturing gorillas in the Virunga volcanoes is made possible by wonderful and fastest world class cameras. The cameras are designed to work in all conditions ranging from hot to cold temperatures.
Trekking mountain gorillas in Virunga volcanoes is an activity worth venturing since it offers great experiences like spending one to four hours with mountain gorillas commonly known as “gorilla habituation experience”. In addition to that is gorilla tracking that involves hiking into the dark African jungles where meeting these animals is almost a sure deal.
In order for tourists not to lose the right track, constant communication is made instant between them and professional guides and rangers as they move alongside. Rangers will have to first study the mood of gorillas met before offering permission to take pictures and capture videos to tourists.
Every tourist that books a ticket to trek gorillas looks forward to taking pictures with these giant apes. It has always been noted that gorillas are as friendly as human beings. It is therefore vital to take as many pictures as your camera can afford and share them amongst your life circles of friends. As of today, only one 1064 gorillas still find their being in the forests of Mgahinga, Virunga, Volcanoes and Bwindi impenetrable national parks.
If one is to enjoy the beauty of photography with gorillas, they ought to let their tour companies know about the specific category of which gorilla families they are interested in most as early as possible. This is because, some gorilla families are fond of having many members, including silverbacks, many young ones or mother gorillas. Rwanda currently inhabits only 12 habituated gorilla families whose family composition differs in terms of numbers, movements and other aspects of their day to day life.
Places to stay during Rwanda photography tours.
Quality accommodation is another attractive prospect for a potential travelers. Since genocide in 1994, Rwanda has ideally rebranded itself and proved to the world that it has learnt from its dark to a promising safari destination, which has attracted multitude of foreign tourists to come and explore Rwanda’s magnificence.
Rwanda has over time presented varied classes of accommodation to her visitors, be-fitting every one’s pockets ranging from budget, midrange and luxury accommodation properties, all spread across the 4 national parks.
What more to photograph in Rwanda other than mountain gorillas?
Quite a number of wildlife experiences ranging from wildlife that dwell in mountain slopes that are typically shy and difficult to be found are common in the northern Rwanda gorilla circuit. It is luck that can make you land on a fleet-footed duiker or a buffalo within in the area. However, the available beautiful activity to engage in here is golden monkey tracking. These monkeys are common in the bamboo zone the fact that they are restricted to montane forests of the magnificent Virunga volcanoes and neighboring areas of Kahuzi-Biega in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Scientists are yet to prove that these monkeys are subspecies of the common Blue monkeys. They are good at staging beautiful entertainment much as they are a bit difficult to capture in photographs; they usually dive into bamboo plantations. However, they have golden faces and golden-roufous saddle of fur something that makes them photogenic and a true reflection of beauty.
Photography of wildlife requires faster and higher magnification lenses than many other objects. In case of gorillas, magnification should range from 70 to 200 per lens. This should possibly be supplemented by 28 to 70 in case of wider angle photographs. A 300 zoom is good elsewhere but should be supplemented by a fixed lens ranging from 400 to 500, with a fastest f-stop of between 4 and 2.8.
