Gorilla Safari Uganda, Rwanda, Congo Africa: Mountain Gorilla Safaris And Tours

UGANDA GORILLA TOUR
It was as if they had appeared from nowhere. These creatures which have so often been portrayed as monstrous, earth shaking and ferocious had only been a few hundred meters away and I hadn’t even realized.

But there had been no earth trembling, no roars; no snapping of twigs and no undergrowth disturbed- all was just as it should be. Insects chirped in the treetops, birds called to each other through high-pitched squawks and myriads of black soldier ants trailed across our path.

You would have thought that a band of over 15 mountain gorillas would be easy to track. Nevertheless, I’d been told by one visitor that they had trekked through the forest in hammering rain and thick mud for over eight hours and had seen no sign of them.

There was no guarantee that after waiting about three months for my gorilla permit, travelling for ten hours and hiking for even more that we would actually get to see the gorillas at all.

My journey had begun a few days before hand in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. And now I had finally reached my destination - The Impenetrable Forest in Bwindi.