Mount Nyiragongo

Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano found in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central sub-Saharan Africa that covers about 11,000 feet high and stands proudly on the border of Congo and Rwanda. Nyiragongo volcano is located inside Virunga National Park over 20 km North of Goma and is currently still, active which has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and it’s last deadly eruption taking 147 lives in 2002

Mount Nyiragongo caldera is almost one mile wide and it holds a deep world’s largest lava lake that is associated with the Albertine Rift. For visitors who are looking for a hiking adventure, climbing to the top of the volcano and watching its bubbling lava at the summit is a must. Nyiragongo Mountain is popular with its fluid lava that runs as water when the lava lake drains; this is where it remands you in early 2002 on 17 in January where it last erupted and left over 200,000 homeless and others were dead. The lava lake was drained from fissures on its western flanks in the city center of the Goma town, the capital of the East Virunga province, had been destroyed by voluminous lava flows.

Mount Nyiragongo became more famous in the early 1960s and late 70’s when volcanologists such as the Kraffts and Tazieff studied it as Lava Lake hold in its deep summit crater and it had been active for half a century, even before it drained in one of the volcano’s recent most catastrophic eruptions in 1977, by openings in its outer flanks in 1977, a huge lava flow poured out and killed hundreds of people. A similar event happened again in January 2002 and over 2000 people were killed

Nyiragongo Mountain is the most active Volcano in Africa and is considered the most dangerous volcano in the world because it directly affects 2 million residents in Goma making them homeless, orphaned, and as well many were killed. The summit of mountain Nyiragongo has little cubes where you retire after having a long day of hiking