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Vi dro deretter opp til Nairobi i Kenya, og fra der brukte vi ca 4 dager til vi kom til Kabale i Uganda hvor vi skulle gjore trekkingen til grillaene.Vi campet ved Lake Bunyonyi. Den ene dagen gikk vi til landsbyen og skolen de hadde der. Ungene danset og sang for oss, i tillegg dro de oss opp en etter en, og vi skulle danse etter dem. Og vi lekte stol leken. Saa det var artig..
Dagen etter ble vi hentet 5.30, og vi var i Bwindi nasjonalpark, hjemmet til the mountain gorillas noen timer senere. Etter 2 timer ca fant vi den ene familien, det var mye kortere enn vi hadde forventet, for det kan ta opp til 5-6 timer, eller ikke i det hele tatt aa finne dem. Vi saa fem av medlemmene, to unger, moren og to silverbacks. Det var hoydepunktet paa turen! Utrolig kult. Vi sto ca 3-4 meter fra dem, og de bare reiste seg opp, saa paa oss, la seg ned igjen, eller gikk et annet sted, og vi fulgte etter. De var ganske store, og saa bare veldig snille ut.Vi hadde en time med gorillaene. Og turen i regnskogen var ogsaa helt utrolig. Mye opp og ned, og mye gjorme, men det gjorde det bare bedre! Saa det kan absolutt anbefales :). .
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Were back in Jinja, Uganda now... we spent most of the last week making our way through Uganda to Bwindi National park so we could do a gorilla trek. From our camp, it took an additional 2 hours to get to the park. It might have taken a little less time, but it was an uneven dirt road and it had been raining overnight, heh, and it made for a very fun drive. We very nearly got stuck a few times on the way into the park, but our driver was a professional... it was very obvious he knew what he was doing. Driving into the park the view was amazing, only the peaks of the hills were able to pierce the wet blanket of the mist covering the valley below us. The atmosphere was perfect for gorilla trekking. When we arrived, we were briefed by one of the park guides who explained the dangers of the rainforest and neccesity of guns :P Don't worry, the guns were mostly in case we ran into forest elephants or ill-tempered gorillas, they assured us they had no intention of invading the Congo.
We located the gorillas much quicker than we expected, in only 2 hours of trekking we were face to face with a silverback gorilla. In total we saw 5 gorillas, 2 silverback, 2 babies and one mother and were able to spend an hour snapping as many photos as we could. We were pretty lucky, the gorillas were feeling pretty lazy so it gave us some really great photo ops. It was a great experience and definitely worth the hefty price tag. The gorillas were so gentle and relaxed... just lumbering about, less than concerned about the univited company, peeking up every once and a while to see if we were still there. It would have been nice however, it we had to trek for a little longer. The rainforest in Uganda is just amazing and it would have been nice to spend a little more time there. We were sliding all over the place because of the mud... we didn't fall over, but that didn't help us keep our clothes clean though.
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Pappa Trond Veldig fine bilder. Utrolig artig å se alt som dere har fått oppleve.
Bestefar Einar Fint å få lesa! No fortalde Trond at de har reist til Canada. Skal Afrfika-turen dermed avsluttast?