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A trip to drc isnt complete withoth visiting virunga national park the home of mountain gorillas.
At 250$ u ll be permited to enter the park escorted by rangers and stay with gorillas for one hour in the forest, Excelent experience u cant imagine. they are big strong like a Mostre they can itimidet you but dont be scared, they are gentle, shy and frendly to human.
Virunga is found at about 45kms from Goma.
Updated Dec 5, 2005
Address: CONGO KINSHASA
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Elle dance.
A pygmy in action,
I M PROUD TO BE A PYGMY, without choose i can walk 100kms by foot!! hard to believe but its a reality.
Remember to bring me choose when u ll come here to visity me and i ll dance for u.
I m found in The eastern congo just in virunga forest near Rwanda and Uganda border.
Updated Dec 5, 2005
Address: DJOMBA/ GOMA
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From the airport of goma Nyiragongo volcano can be seen. A small party of Goma airport olso were destroyed by this volcano but its still in use.
nyiragongo volcano is situeted at about 15 km from Goma town this mountain can be ascended guided by rangers after paying a national fee of 100$. at the top of this mountain u will get the chance of seeing from above red lava trough her crater, the montain chain of virunga from Rwanda, congo up to Uganda, the lake kivu+ all the town of Goma and Gisenyi (Rwanda)+ many villages, to climb the mountain will take u 2 hours to reach the top.
Written Dec 5, 2005
Address: CONGO KINSHASA
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This lava fire can be seen up to now trough Nyiragongo crater in Goma. This volcano still in activity, one day as it has been sai by many observers this volcano will destroy our lovely town aigain. In 2 years ? in 20? No one knows but its verry soon.
Updated Dec 5, 2005
Address: DR CONGO
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Goma is my home town, i dont have some thing to comment as my above freind bonobos2005 has allready gave u all about Goma and what hapened the day when Nyiragongo volcano arupted. Its verry sad to explain, and hard to believe but its a reality wich we lived.
Updated Dec 4, 2005
Address: DRC
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Finally the lavaflow reached Lake Kivu.
At that time the water temperature increased to 40 degrees Celsius and the water level sank so that the shoreline was extended by 5 meters.
The Lake still contains a huge poisonous gas deposit that is feared to be released during a next eruption.
You can visit the point where the lavastone "river" meets the water.
Updated Jun 12, 2003
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Although very few of the former Lakeside establishments remain, the walk from town towards lake following the new road is very impressive.
Efforts have been made to level the lava on the way to the lake, so that it can be used as a road.
I visited several volcanoes with different grades of activity before, but never saw it's destructive powers in a way like this.
The landscapes that it created are amongst the most bizarre I've ever seen...
Let's hope the people of Goma, will finally reach a life without natural disasters and equally disastrous effects of political struggle!
Updated Jun 12, 2003
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On the edges of the lavastream houses are still intact enough to live in, although their views changed considerably.
I found it amazing to see how the people of Goma managed to adapt and re-organise their lives in circumstances like that.
Updated Jun 12, 2003
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You can follow the stream all the way from the airport to the towncentre.
You willl pass a former area with larger compounds, where only frames of cars and rusty fences are signs of former wealth.
It's all covered by a 2, 3 meters thick rocky mess.
Updated Jun 12, 2003
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14 villages and about 15000 houses were destroyed by the immense power of the "fireriver" and the accompanying earthquakes.
Many families live in newly build houses outside town financed by aid organisations, but many of them have preferred to return.
The lavastone, sometimes huge rough rocks, sometimes looking like pudding, has to be levelled, mostly by hand, before a new house can be build. A pile of stones marks the owners property.
Updated Jun 12, 2003
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A volcano changed Goma and the life of thousands
On 17/01/2002 Mt. Nyiragongo erupted, about 15 km from the town of Goma. A more than 100 meter wide river of lava thundered down the lower slopes of the volcano, right through the town into Lake Kivu,...
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Goma is one of the town of the Democratic Republic of congo and my home town, A part of the town of Goma was destroyed in 2001 by lava fire From the Mount Nyiragongo a live Volcano located at about......
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I first visited this town in 1996, shortly thereafter Laurent Kabila staged his uprising from this town and when I went back in the town was like something out of a Mad Max movie. All the buildings......
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Where the earth spills fire...
Until the recent eruption in 2002 Goma was a comparably wealthy town on the north-eastern shore of Lake Kivu at the border to Gisenyi/Rwanda. Former President Mobutu had his residence in this...
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