wildlife watching in the CAR
We have a new trainee guide here, and he needed to be shown the two main sites which clients visit – Bai Hoku and Dzanga Bai – and I was allowed to accompany him, as a perk of being a volunteer at the lodge. I felt I should give this blog the same title that I used back in 2012, when I wrote then about my visits to these amazing two sites http://louiseinsenegal.blogspot.com/2012/07/wildlife-watching-in-car.html Firstly on Friday we went to Bai Hoku to see the gorillas, the only habituated group that can be visited here now that the silverbacks of two other groups have died. Exactly as I described previously, they are more difficult to watch than mountain gorillas as they move frequently – and they are difficult to photograph as the interior of the forest is quite dark. However, it is still a wonderful experience to be close to such amazing creatures. We watched the group of seven gorillas, especially the silverback guarding the group – sometimes climbing trees wh...