Rwanda may be tiny in comparison to it’s neighbors of Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but that’s fairly irrelevant given the wealth of wildlife going on in the equatorial country’s national parks – particularly the mountain gorillas.

One of only three countries with wild – and habituated – mountain gorillas, Rwandan national parks tend to focus on gorilla safaris, though there are also opportunities to hang out with habituated chimps, and the very rare golden monkey. Rwanda has just three national parks, all of which hug it’s borders with neighboring countries.