Experiences labelled with 'rwanda hotel'
The gorillas of Rwanda's Virunga Mountains were thrust into the mainstream and popularized by the Sigourney Weaver film Gorillas in the Mist, which was adapted from gorilla research expert Dian Fossey's book. The critically endangered mountain gorillas of Africa almost became extinct in the same century they were discovered by outsiders. Thanks in large part to the efforts of people like Fossey, it is now possible to personally witness their powerful beauty in the wild. Dian Fossey argued against visitors and the further habituation of the mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park, saying that, "Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal." But the number of mountain gorillas in the wild has drastically multiplied from 242, when Fossey published her ...
