Waking up in the morning of 14
february from my home town in Nairobi to
Kenyatta international airport very
enthusiastic of the trip am going to take to the pearl of Africa . I had read a
lot about the Gorillas , there amazing features that kept captivating my mind,
for once I did not stop at wondering if what I heard about experiences
deriverived from Gorilla trekking were that satisfactory.
From different theories I had an
understanding that these creatures had 90% genes related to the human species ,
they were described as being very huge and gentle giants . one of the things
that captivated me the most was the silverback that was the strong hold of each
group or rather family. The eagerness to see this species that protected its
young house hold with its life was amazing, the kind nature that it had towards
the female members of its group and the siblings was seemingly amazing.
As a member of the east African community
the prices for the Gorilla permits were fairly affordable roughly 100$ . I used
Active safaris company as my tour operators and my guide was Billy from the
same company he was a friendly man who had vast knowledge about the Gorillas
and he selected for me the best family to visit, we arrived at Bwindi late night and the
following morning we started Gorilla tracking.
We walked for a great distance , would not say I was that my hopes of
seeing the Gorilla were diminishing much as I was enjoying everything about the national parks the birds the nature and amazing scenery and the climate within
was amazing. Just as I was about to give up trekking the guide pointed to us ,
how amazing it was , I met the Bituukara family at Ruhija (EAST OF BWINDI) which has
around 13 members including 4 silverbacks. The Bitukura group was named after a
river where the family members were first sighted. Bitukura is a peaceful
family including 4 silverbacks and some playful juveniles , the juveniles kept
climbing the trees and doing funny movements that kept us all laughing.. How fulfilling my experience had become I had got more than what I
had come for, Bwindi is just fully
gifted with all forms of nature that I have had to encounter with all this
years of my travelling experience, my eyes witnessed different species of birds
kind that I was never going to encounter anywhere else I enjoyed the Arizona and with my own eyes
got to the conclusions that there is nothing as thrilling as Gorilla trecking.
