Evolutionary Time Warp - A Trek Through Five Million Years to see the Mountain Gorillas
Located in the Kigezi Highlands along the Ugandan stretch of the Western Rift Valley and shrouded by mist, Bwindi Imprentrable Forest National Park at first sight gives off an aura of mystique. Going beneath the mist, not only is a lost world revealed, but when viewing the forest’s most famous inhabitants, the Mountain Gorillas, to a human visitor it can almost feel like entering an evolutionary time capsule. For me, as well as seeing and almost feeling the sensation of five million years of evolution, it was also a personal journey through my own life development. Sunrise above the mist surrounding Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Over 25,000 years old, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest survived the last Ice Age. When seeing the rugged elevation when approaching the entrance to the national which ranges from around 4,000ft to over 8,000ft, one notices the inter-dependency of geological factors in its existence brought by the journeys that the Great Rift Valley has brought in forming