This day begun early. 05:30 which was way to early. First we had breakfast at 05:45 then we made packed lunch, packed our backpack and made sure we had fresh camera batteries. Then a car came and picked us up and took us to Parc de Volcanos.
At the park headquarters we were assigned to two guides named Bernice and Fernando. After some breifing we took a short trip with the car again to get us to closer to the gorillas. The group we were going to was the Amahoro gorillas. Amahoro means peace in the local language.
At the starting point we also got us a porter who carried our backpack, his name was John. It was totally worth the $10 it cost. He helped us in the slippery jungle many times. The porters was once pouchers but by giving them jobs the goverment is preventing the pouching.
Anyway, the starting point was right in the middle of a village so we had to walk through fields of daisies (the are used to make insect repellant) and potatoes until we finally reached the huge ditch that marked the entrence to the national park.
And off we went into the jungle. It was hot, it was wet and it was uphill through the plants, stubbs, vines and something that remotly resembled a path. We walked, slipped, slided through the jungle for an good hour when the rangers and guides realized that they had been tracking buffalos and not gorillas. We waited for a while and then the rangers found the gorillas but we had to backtrack for a while and then climb even more up on the volcano. And then around the bend…
There they finally were! Gorillas! Just beeing around them was fantastic. I cannot describe the feeling. But at least I can share the pictures I took. Unfortunatly the connection here aint good enough for a huge picture upload so I will have to do it at home.

After we had spent roughly an hour with the gorillas it was time to leave these wonderful creatures. You’re only allowed one hour with them which is to protect them. Time for a quick lunch because it looked like it was going to start to rain any minute. The way down was long and painful but thanks to our porter John it was doable. And thanks to our fantastic guides we got to see the gorillas! And thanks to the wonderfull Sofia for wanting to share this with me!
Back in the village center we left our porter and got onto our car again and begun the extremely bumpy ride back to the park head quarters and then finally back to our hotell named Snow Hotel. At the moment we are awaiting our dinner which is served at 7pm then we are going to have a nice cold beer with the others.