Mountain gorilla trekking is by far a life time experience and an exceptional adventure enjoyed by most people. It involves tracking gorillas in their natural habitats, hiking steep slopes and nature walking through dense mountainous rain forests just to have a thrilling moment with these beautiful primate species. The mountain gorillas are the subspecies of Eastern gorillas that live in Uganda, Rwanda and D.R. Congo.

Mountain gorilla trekking gives trekkers a rare chance to spend about one full hour with these beautiful apes in their natural habitats. Their feeding habits on bamboo shoots and leaves, social life, playful dramatic behavior of young gorillas and adolescents jumping from one bamboo tree to another and reaction to human’s presence is what catches the attention of many visitors. 

With the guidance of park rangers and trackers, visitors are led through the forest trails deeper in the dense forests to find these human-like species and the best way to track their location is by either following their huge foot prints or through bamboo shoots left overs left along the way. Sometimes mountain gorillas tend to go deeper in thick forests to search for food so visitors can anticipate to track them for about 2 to 6 hours depending on how far they have gone.

Another captivating moment after tracking these giant apes is how gorillas move in large groups of about 10 to 50 individuals also known as the “families” with several young ones and female gorillas appearing in large numbers while headed by one watchful and very protective dominant alpha male “Silver back” who marks territories and ensures there is no external threats to his gorilla family.