A national park and World Heritage Site in eastern Congo is offering a tour of an erupting volcano to watch it shoot lava 300 metres into the air.

Mount Nyamulagira began erupting on Nov. 6 and continues to spit glowing lava prompting the Virunga National Park to set up a camp where tourists can spend the night and watch the volcano for $300. The fee covers the shuttle from the capital Goma to the park and tour guides who will accompany tourists in hiking to the camp. The shuttle takes one hour while the hike to the camp takes three to four hours.

Park spokeswoman LuAnne Chad described the lava spurts as spectacular, according to the Associated Press.

The height of the lava spurt is 15 times greater than the one from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano, which erupted early this year.
The lava from the 3,058-metre Nyamulagira is flowing to an uninhabited part of the park and pose no danger to humans nor to the gorillas living in the mountain.

The Virunga park is more known for its mountain gorillas. But it also has seven volcanoes along its border with Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.

Another volcano from the park, the 3,468-metre Nyaragongo, is also active with a spectacular smoking caldera and lava lake that glows at night.

The park has been reopened to tourists after years of conflict in the country made visits dangerous. The last three years saw an average 100 tourists visiting the park every month.

The park has 360 armed rangers that guard the vast area against wildlife poachers, rebels, illegal miners and illegal settlers.

The Nyaragongo volcano is another active volcano in the Virunga National Park.