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Gorilla Trekking in Uganda with Your Family

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Lesley | 1 Comments

Intelligent, powerful, and endangered; gorillas are our closest living relatives after chimpanzees and bonobos. Do you dream of gorilla trekking? Is it on your bucketlist? Did you think gorilla trekking was off limits for families with young children? The national parks in Uganda do require children to be 12 years of age or older, but if I learned anything over the…

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Trekking Chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Lesley | 21 Comments

A community of wild chimpanzees surrounded me in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. The leader, an elderly looking male, had one eye and silvery, grey hair on his back. Don’t mistake that for weakness though. He was powerful and the rest of the community respected him and protected him when they sensed danger. Another community of chimpanzees was close by and…

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