Gorilla trekking is the hiking into the forest accompanied by park rangers and a tracker/guide to locate a chosen habituated mountain gorilla family. When the trekkers locate the gorilla family, you’re able to remain with them, observing them find food, feed and just go on their daily activities for a time given of one hour.
Mountain gorillas are monitored and safeguarded by rangers around the clock. This ensures that the rangers or tracker hiking with you will interact with the party that is following the gorillas for guidance about how to find them. In short, you’re never going to track their path, but you’re going to follow a path previously mapped out. Thus, the success rate of gorilla trekking with mountain gorillas is 98-100 percent.
Gorilla trekking begins quite early morning from either of the park sectors if you are trekking gorillas Bwindi impenetrable national park listed on your gorilla permit. But before the rangers lead you into the forest, you will be briefed by the park guide on the basic regulatory requirements of the entire activity at the reception area. The key regulation requires wearing a face mask and staying 10 meters away from the gorillas. Usually eight tourist are permitted to visit one gorilla family in a single day for one hour.
Trekking to gorillas will take between 30 minutes and 4 hours based on where the gorilla family is situated in the park. It’s not possible to judge where and how the gorillas have traveled from the previous day or what course they have taken, so vigilance is undoubtedly a safe state of mind when trailing the trackers at this time. But eventually, they’re expecting to join the family they’re searching for.
The gorilla’s first glimpse is memorable! Within the intense green of the thick vegetation, you’ll see shadowy figures before you get closer. It takes a few seconds to recognize that these figures are wild gorillas sitting in front of you. Unbelievably, they’re completely calm. The gorillas may stare at you at once, but they will soon resume their social business. Ensure you have a face mask on it and stay 7 meters away to shield the gorillas from any human infection.
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