We celebrated our first night in our cabins with some fine--well maybe not fine, maybe 'interesting' Ugandan wine.
This is the view of Bwindi from our cabins.
In local language (Lukiga), Bwindi actually means ‘Impenetrable.’ See the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Website: CLICK HERE
It really was a "Gorillas in the Mist" type of evening.
Watching the forest was mesmerizing, like watching a waterfall or a campfire.
Watching the forest was mesmerizing, like watching a waterfall or a campfire.
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The park has about 340 individual mountain gorillas, almost half of all the mountain gorillas in the world. Mountain gorillas are an endangered species. There are no mountain gorillas in captivity. Here and a small region in Rwanda are the places in the world to see these animals. READ MORE
This repeated warning is apt, for Bwindi is all however impenetrable; 327 km2 of tangled plant life draped over a deep fissured landscape of steep, slippery valleys & high, draughty ridges.
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