A' Venture in Africa: Gorilla Tracking

We traveled to Southwestern Uganda on the weekend and were amazed at the scenery. Beautiful vistas of green mountains, endless fields of vegetables and gorgeous wild flowers everywhere.
It was nice to get out of the office for a couple of days and away from the traffic in Kampala.

Since it was Easter Weekend we came across several groups of

Christians moving with their crosses and singing

Proud to be a Christian - Remembering our Savior Jesus Christ

We reached Bwindi Impenitrable National Park. After an orientation we headed out into the

Jungle with a guide in the front and one in the back with a gun. We were fortunate that it

was not raining. It turned out to be a very nice day.

The guides do not know exactly where the gorillas are or how long we will have to hike to

find them. There are two trackers ahead that communicate with our guides and lead

them to where the gorillas are.

Our group that we hiked with consisted of Alfonzo, from Spain, a girl from Ontario,a girl from

England and us. They were a great group to travel with.

Our guides are coordinating with the trackers. This is after four hours of hiking up the slippery slopes

of the mountain through some pretty tight spots that the guide had to slash through. We discovered

that the group of gorillas we were tracking were on the move so we decided to rest for awhile

to see where they were going to settle to eat.

There was a monkey with a long fluffy tail checking us out. I am sure there were many other animals

in the jungle but they stayed hidden.

The Gorillas were getting closer so we headed out through the thickest part of the Jungle.

Sometimes we were crawling through the vines and slashing our way through. It was about

another hour of hiking to get to where they were.

The Gorillas, Mishaya Family were pretty uninterested in us.

Do you think she is happy to see us?

Tough life having to entertain tourists
all the time

Com'in through. Now that is close!

This was a little one. They eat a lot of leaves and green stuff. They get most of their water from the food they eat because the streams are at the bottom of the mountain and they don't travel all the way down to get water. There is a enough in the vegetation they eat. There is no shortage of greenery in the jungle.