Seeing gorillas in the wild has been on my wish list for a while, and last month I ticked it off. This trek was in Mgahinga National Park and I was quite prepared to possibly trek for up to 6 hours to find them. Fortunately that wasn’t the case and we only had to walk to where they were for under 2 hours. There is only one habituated gorilla family in the park (habituated means used to humans) and it’s a family of 9. There are only 8 permits a day issued for a gorilla trek here and for a maximum of one hour to be spent with them. Facemasks must be worn in order to protect them from human diseases and I came away with a lot of images and the memory of one of them walking so close to me that it brushed my leg as I was standing there. Here are my favourites.






