Baraza

Category: Forests, WildlifeDirect news | Date: Feb 20 2009 | By: baraza

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

The WildlifeDirect team then went to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park on the way to Rwanda.  This involved a bus trip to Kabale in Uganda then we took a cab to Bwindi a ride of about 2 hours.  We arrived there at around six in the evening.  The road there was being repaired and it was basically a smooth trip.  The scenery was amazing to say the least.

The Parks Boundary

We got there in the evening at around five in the evening, hoping to see the famed gorillas but we weren’t in luck as we were told that to actually see the gorillas we would have to go deep into the park so we had to settle for giant earthworms.

 Giant Earthworm

At the park is The Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation who are about to join our blog network.  We met Doug, Miriam and Joel who treated us to a sumptous dinner where we combined work and some food.  Daniel who is a field assistant regaled us with stories of his gorilla tracking excursions.  As conversations went on Enoch, Doug and Joel found out that they’d all worked in Papua New Guinea but at different times.

Bwindi is very cold and dark at night and it really lives to its name ‘Impenetrable Forest’.  Nights there are filled with animal sounds some eerie others normal, so we tucked in and prepared ourselves for the next leg of the journey that would take to Rwanda.

Tags: Bwindi, ITFC, MacArthur Foundation, wildlifedirect