NewsPosted by Evert Jakobs Sat, August 14, 2010 08:53:31
ACCESS RWANDA SAFARIS LTD, is pleased to inform the world travel trade industry, of our new tourist product, starting in late 2010, whereby, clients will have the thrilling, lifetime experiences of tracking the Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda / or, in the VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK (DRC), spend one night on top of Mt. Nyiragongo ACTIVE VOLCANO( DRC), trek the giant LOW LAND GORILLAS, in the KAHUZI BIEGA NATIONAL PARK (DRC), and end the safari by trekking the Chimpanzees in the NYUNGWE FOREST NATIONAL PARK, in Rwanda.
This is the new " PURE PRIMATE SAFARIS SERIES ON THE EAST AFRICAN TOURISM MARKET being promoted by the ACCESS RWANDA SAFARIS LTD.
NewsPosted by Evert Jakobs Sat, June 05, 2010 13:46:50The staff at the Karisoke Research Center monitored two new births on June 1, in two different groups that they protect. They had a close look at both infants and they are doing well at this time.
Mother Umuco is 20 years old, and mother Ikaze is only 8-1/2 years old. We are waiting for photos but newborns are so small they are hard to see against the mother's body.
The traditional Rwandan gorilla infant naming ceremony takes place in Rwanda on June 5. Called "Kwitz Izina," it is the time when names are chosen for all the gorilla infants born during the past year. Karisoke staff and various celebrities will be among the participants.
Side newsPosted by Evert Jakobs Thu, May 13, 2010 11:56:11Nyungwe forest is one of the many impressing touristic attractions in Rwanda.
Nyungwe Forest National Park is a national park in southwestern Rwanda, located south of Lake Kivu on the border with Burundi. The park was established in 2004 and covers an area of approximately 970 km² of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs. The nearest town is Cyangugu, 54 km to the west. Mount Bigugu is located within the park borders.
One of the richest mountain primate communities in Africa became a national park on March 3, 2004. Home to chimpanzees, Angolan black-and-white colobus monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, and other primates, the Nyungwe National Park covers 970 square kilometers of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs in the mountains of Rwanda. In all, the new park boasts 13 different primate species, 260 bird species, and over 260 different types of trees and shrubs. Nyungwe became a forest reserve in 1933 when the surrounding land began to be cleared for farming. Now, over seventy years later, the government of Rwanda has made the reserve a national park. Nyungwe and the neighboring Kibira National Park in Burundi, to the south, together form the largest track of rainforest in eastern Africa.
Nyungwe has a wide diversity of animal species, making it a priority for conservation in Africa. The forest is situated in a region where several large-scale biogeographical zones meet and the variety of terrestrial biomes provide a great span of microhabitats for many different species of plants and animals.
The park contains 13 different primate species (25% of Africa's total), 275 bird species, 1068 plant species, 85 mammal species, 32 amphibian and 38 reptile species. Many of these animals are restricted-range species that are only found in the Albertine Rift ecoregion in Africa. In fact, the number of endemic species found here is greater than in any other forest in the Albertine Rift that has been surveyed.
Primate species
- Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
- Adolf Friedrich's Angola Colobus (Colobus angolensis ruwenzori)
- L'Hoest's Monkey (Cercopithecus l'hoesti)
- Silver Monkey (Cercopithecus doggetti)
- Golden Monkey (Cercopithecus kandti)
- Hamlyn's Monkey (Cercopithecus hamlyni)
- Red-tailed Monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius)
- Dent's Mona Monkey (Cercopithecus denti)
- Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
- Olive Baboon (Papio anubis)
- Grey-cheeked Mangabey (Lophocebus albigena)
Loving Rwanda can be the reason for some people to do funny things in order to feel connected to the beautiful landscapes in Rwanda.
The pictures here show you one of the beautiful waterfalls in Nyungwe and form the background of an artificial pond in a garden in The Netherlands. Soon the climbing plants will cover the frame around it, thus creating an overwhelming memory of Rwanda.
Fairs and EventsPosted by Evert Jakobs Fri, April 30, 2010 12:46:00
Access Rwanda Safaris Ltd will attend the annual World Travel Market in London in 2010.
We will be there offering our itineraries to partners who like to offer Rwanda as a holiday destination.
If you are interested in working with a company who offers quality, tailor made safaris to Rwanda, you are welcom to make an appointment on our stand in London.
As we also offer itineraries for the for the physically challenged and/or elderly people, we will give a presentation on this subject during this fair.
More information about the date and time will follow.
You can visit us at WTM on Stand: AF240.
Fairs and EventsPosted by Evert Jakobs Fri, April 30, 2010 12:20:30
Kwita Izina, the uniquely Rwandan event, was introduced in 2005 with the aim of creating awareness for the conservation of the endangered mountain Gorillas, which is line with this year’s theme of WED “Many Species, One Planet, One Future”
The Kwita Izina gorilla naming ceremony has received thousands of international, regional and local visitors to its Virunga mountain ranges to visit the endangered mountain gorillas. For decades, international conservation organizations, donors and concerned individuals have made substantial resources available to the gorilla conservation cause and continue to do so. Each year the new born gorillas are celebrated in an exciting event at the foot of the Virunga Mountains.
Access Rwanda Safaris Ltd will attend this ceremony in June 2010.
After the event the photoos will be published.
SponsoringPosted by Evert Jakobs Fri, April 30, 2010 11:55:04
Access Rwanda Safaris Ltd is the sole sponsor of the worlds biggest photo gallery from the Flower Parade in Zundert, The Netherlands, it contains more than 7000 pictures about this unique event.
Every first Sunday of September this parade is exposing the results of the creative people of Zundert and its suburbs.
If you want to see more pictures of this parades, you just have to click on the elephant.
Enjoy!
Info Access Rwanda SafarisPosted by Evert Jakobs Fri, April 02, 2010 06:48:17
Access Rwanda Safaris Ltd wishes everybody Happy Eastern!
NewsPosted by Evert Jakobs Sun, March 14, 2010 09:53:30
BERLIN - Rwanda, yesterday, made history by being the first country to win — four times in a row — the Best African Exhibitor Award at the annual International Tourism Trade Fair in Berlin (ITB Berlin).
It has maintained the winning position at the world’s largest tourism fair since 2007.
Rwanda’s Ambassador to Germany, Christine Nkulikiyinka, welcomed the announcement that Rwanda had once again topped the line-up in the exhibition that attracted thousands of participants drawn from all over the world.
“This means a great deal for us to win this award again, because we are the only country that has won it this many consecutively,” Nkulikiyinka told The Sunday Times yesterday.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), John Gara, described the development as yet another testimony to the immense potential of Rwanda’s tourism industry.
“Winning this award will definitely boost travellers’ confidence in coming to Rwanda. Other areas of diversification that we are looking at include; conference tourism, birding, and cultural tourism,” he said.
