mountain gorilas

[chesnuts]

Having recently returned from a trip to Rwanda and Uganda to spend time with these outstanding and endangered gentle giants, I can guarantee its an experience you will never forget ever ever

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[B00]

Aww bless, could that baby be any cuter? LOL

Looking forward to seeing the rest :-)

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Gorgeous aint they but quite scary lol

[babybombo]

How gorgeous ! They have the most beautiful eyes.

I would love to do something like that, how did you find out about this oppportunity ?
I am planning on doing zoology at uni but I'd love to take a year out first and do something like that!

[B00]

Wow, they're fabulous! How did you get to go on such a thing? Were you scared? Were they aggressive?

[chesnuts]

They are beautiful, the pics are of the ones in Rwanda, it was a longer trek to find them than the one in Bwindi, but they were once we had found them easier to see, had longer fur/hair, they were soo big and when the tracker did not know the babies and females were around the back of a bush the blackback charged, the tracker wasnt hurt but it certainly made you realise they were wild animals and although most of these groups are habituated and used to seeing humans, you knew anything could happen

[B00]

Corrr, don't seem folk have brilliant experiences??? Me? I'm off to put the tea in the oven.....it's all go here! ;-)

Thanks once again Chestnuts- awesome pictures, I'm not jealous at all!!!

[chesnuts]

If you mean the Orphange Volunteer Stays, thenthese trips are fairly common, they are often offered to teachers mostly, but there are a lot of the Wildlife Tour Operators can arrange also I presume for anyone. There were 6 of us but during our stay to see the gorillas people booked with safari companies, If interested I would put Mountain Gorilla safari holidays or working holidays and Good luck, you will never regret it x

[babybombo]

Thanks, sounds like you really enjoyed it!
Think I will have a look into that sort of thing now, thanks for the info and your pictures are absolutely wonderful.
x

[divegirl]

Beautiful photos....what an amazing experience. I[and my daughter] are going to Borneo at Easter and can't wait to experience the wildlife, especially the Orang-utans!!!

Lisa xxx

[garner]

Oh Chesnuts you lucky person, I bet its a trip you will never forget Im mad on them but have not had a chance to see them in the wild.I have got a beautiful picture by joel kirk in my lounge of two mothers with babies its a limited addition and is my pride and joy, such wonderful creatures and so in decline it beggers believe.Thanks for sharing your photos and I envy you. g

[chesnuts]

wow, I've just caught up with some of your replies how lovely, thankyou. To those of you who would like to see them I would really recommend it. Tomorrow I will post some more of the pics on here for those who are interested and its heartbreaking as we believed that in our life time these gorillas will become extinct due to taking their land for farming and other similar issues whether political eg Congo etc, or not.

[chesnuts]

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Thats all for now hope you all enjoy x