Gorillas!

The family of Gorillas were spread out a little bit, but there were 19 of them, so everywhere you looked there was a Gorilla. They were just simply amazing and we didn't start taking pictures straight away, we just took in the atmosphere and watched these magnificent creatures.

We saw a baby being carried on its mothers back and a small group of them grooming each other. The silver back was well within view and quite close. He was stubborn though and would not face the cameras, a profile shot was the best we could get. Our favourite poser was a female who was unfortunately blind in one eye, she gave us some great pictures.We couldn't get over how big some of them were and that they almost looked unreal.

A juvenile climbed down a tree right by Steph, which we managed to capture on video. Andy found himself quite close to one and slowly moved away to a safe distance because Gorillas can catch our human diseases.

What made us all giggle like children was the amount of farting going on by the Gorillas and they were loud! But we would all be like that if we ate what the Gorillas ate!

You can only spend 1 hour with the Gorillas and the time flew by. You are literally mesmerized by them, they are indeed very special and what a wonderful experience. We are so happy we had the opportunity to do this.