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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Gorilla Safaris: Trekking Uganda peak tourism

Uganda "The Pearl of Africa" ​​is a small country in Central and Eastern Africa, bordering the east Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda to the south of the Congo (DRC), on the west and north Sudan.
Uganda has a unique description, which can not be close to the truth .... Located in the fertile heart of Africa, astride the equator, boasts a number of landscapes, from rugged snow-capped mountains, great plains stretching to the horizon, Uganda offers visitors a variety of beautiful landscapes, with different broad savannah, rainforests to arid - semi desert , many wetlands and abundant fresh rain. It's a charming environment, good-natured and protected mountain gorillas still living on Earth.



It is estimated that more than 600 are still living on earth, and that those who survived still live in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in southwestern Uganda.
Every visitor who comes to Uganda would like to get in touch with these gentle giants addition, our distant cousins. Uganda gorillas must go to see how attention to the tourism sector in the country if they are to continue to attract more tourists in the country and increase going to see these gentle giants. Below is my gorilla experience.
Gorilla experience.
After sleeping in a dream world of tomorrow experience, I was awakened at 5:00 and took a shower to increase your energy. Soon we were informed about the management of the park, what would be likely to pass before the meeting of forest animals and most importantly, how to behave when we're at gorillas.
We go into the dense growth and faster we moved, in the dense jungle canopy layers. The terrain is hilly, but covered with dense forest. We should stop waiting for those who need to catch my breath. It took us about 5 hours to get close to them. Other gorillas have. Our guide indicated that he saw the waste (poopoo), and it was a proof that shows us that we barely see. It began to look for a new kind of growth. He went on in the jungle for any beaten path. We encountered some monkeys and many species of birds in the jungle. Forest truck was narrow, overgrown. As a result, we could not see far ahead.
So we just moved into a small open space, but with thick ferns and orchids, you can see some of them sitting majestically and motionless on the branches of trees watching and waiting for us.
Our efforts and determination were going to pay. We came across a small river and crossed it in one go. Now we got really close. We were tired but very happy we went down and approached the gorillas in silence. They had finally arrived in full view of more than 14 of them, an incredible sight!
Two silverback sat beside each other on the head of the group, while others huddled close together and continued their silent stares. From time to time young people can move in any way play was close to where we were, while the adults broke into a low grunt and moved closer. Although each of us was bolted to kick in a life time, which for many will be their last chance to see these wild animals.
The larger the Silverback at once on all fours and strong, which proves that we have probably moved too close.
One of the gorillas seem to be stubborn, refusing to sit in a group or even join them when they began to move on. He continued to sit alone, Bush and looked at us. We also saw him, and waited for his family. Eventually he left Bush and sat down on the road just behind us. We left the track in order to go ahead and join the others, but still refused to move. When our patience finally get it and we decided to follow the other gorillas before they disappeared from view, finally moved and went right behind him. When we stopped, although he would leave and move when we moved.
"He tries to show blue-backs to lead. He wants to make sure that everything is fine" Ranger guide explains. Quickly and went to his family was moving forward, and disappears in thick plates. After one hour we saw the baby gorilla plays the mother's womb, young gorilla somersaulting on the branches of trees and earth shaking male gorilla beating his chest. In an hour we sat mesmerized to see the gorillas, so massive that we thought to be a master gorilla paw. It was one hour well spent. We continued to think about our time with the gorillas long after they disappeared from sight.
Finally it was time to follow our steps back to the vehicle. Three hours of climbing we expected. But we do not mind. Our mission was successful. We were happy and complete.
Even heavy rain, which poured into our half way back, can erase our spirit, not surprisingly, this forest is sometimes called the rainy forest.

 

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