Icolo and Bengo - Quiçama National Park registers an influx of 150 tourists per day from Thursday to Sunday, and less than 100 on other weekdays, with a greater presence of foreigners, the infrastructure manager, Francisco António, informed this Friday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the field visit that the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa carried out at Quiçama Park, the manager told ANGOP that the presence of tourists has increased satisfactorily and in greater numbers, with emphasis on citizens from China, Brazil, Portugal, Namibia and South Africa, and, in smaller numbers, Angolans.
According to Francisco António, the number of visitors has been greater for a month and a half, especially in accommodation, restaurants and safari.
The Park currently has 30 bungalows, eight of which are operational and the rest are in the restoration phase.
Tourists pay 40.000 Kz ($46,7 US) for a daily rate that includes breakfast.
The service is provided by reservation, whether in accommodation, safari service or catering.
For the safari service, you pay 10.000 kz ($11,6 US) for two hours, for people over the age of 13, 6.000 Kz ($7 US) for citizens aged between 6 and 12, with children under 5 being exempt.
In terms of food, the maximum price of meals costs 15.000 kz ($17,5 US) and the lowest costs 10.000kz.
The animals in greatest quantity are gunga, wildebeest, ox horse, elephants, gazelles, impales, deer, zebras and holongos.
On this visit to the Park, the Vice-President of the Republic, accompanied by the Minister of the Environment, shares with the community the prevention of fires and other actions harmful to the environment.
The Quiçama National Park, located in the municipality of Quiçama, in Luanda Province, is located 75 kilometers between the Atlantic Ocean, the Kwanza and Longa River, in an area of 9,600 km².
Its vegetation varies from the banks of the Kwanza to the interior of the park, with mangroves, dense forest, forest-savannah mosaic, open forest and dry tropical forest with cacti and baobab trees.
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