Take My Breath Away: Baby Mountain Gorillas!!

While trekking through Volcanoes National Park, we found these beautiful, beautiful animals.

Why, hello, you handsome fellow!

Rwanda is home to the stunning Sabyinyo Family of mountain gorillas.

The family had several juveniles that were just so adorable!

This little guy was about two years old.

And let me tell you, they were out playing!  Trying to figure out swinging on the bamboo.

Climbing up things, annoying the adults, wrestling. It was adorable.

Check out the guy above playing with the baby who was only a few months old:

(That whole bamboo swinging thing? Definitely not gotten down yet!)

Basking in the morning sun.

Here's another short clip, it makes me laugh because his somersault? All it makes me think of is an Ewok!

I was absolutely amazed to see how stunningly orange the gorillas' eyes were.
These photos don't remotely do the color justice.

A few months old---just too adorable!

If given the chance to go mountain gorilla trekking, go, go, GO.
It is an absolutely amazing, almost spiritual experience.
I want to go again.  More than once again.

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Volcanoes National Park!!!

While on a visit to Rwanda, I saw my first volcano!

Why, hello Sabyinyo Volcano.

A woman works the fields just near the volcanoes.

The park is home to five of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga Mountains.

We began hiking up the mountains and wow, just wow. Bamboo forests like I've never seen before.

I had no idea that bamboo forests make a creaking sound--almost like an old door opening---

when the wind blows through them.  It's very eerie and beautiful.

Why were we hiking?  Why we were mountain gorilla trekking of course!

Here's where we stopped while the guides hacked a path through the forest to where our family of gorillas were resting.

Some of the guides.

My first view of the famed mountain gorillas.

Here's a teaser of the next post: isn't he just adorable?!

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