If you would like to hear the stories behind many of the photos and videos in this blog, I gave a Zoom presentation to the Photo Midwest Third Thursday talk on June 19, 2025. The presentation was recorded and is available here. It includes photos of my trip to Borneo to trek with orangutans.<\/p>\n Map of Rwanda and Serengeti<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Small world experience: meeting my friend Tom Zinnen from UW-Madison in the airport bus in Brussels. We both had on color coordinated t-shirts from UW Science Expeditions albeit from different years. He and his wife were on their way to Senegal.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Rwanda Ecotours arranged a detailed trip in Rwanda, beginning in the capital city of Kigali. I had previously researched African safaris but had found the experience overwhelming, in that it was impossible to decide what to do and where to go. This was much easier: I just trusted Amy\u2019s advice so all I had to do was pay the money! I had planned to arrive in Kigali a day early so I could get over jet lag and see some of the sights. However, my flight out of Madison was delayed so long that I would have missed the flight to Brussels. So I left the following day from ORD after taking the VanGalder bus in the morning to avoid having to depend on a morning flight from Milwaukee, which as it turned out was indeed also delayed. <\/p>\n I was met in Kigali at the airport by my personal Rwanda guide, Peter Freeman, with whom I would spend the better part of the next 10 days. The next morning we departed for Akagera National Park in northeast Rwanda for 2 nights, then we returned to Kigali for one night and drove to Nyungwe National Park for 3 nights before going to Volcanoes NP for 4 nights. I will not tell the story in temporal order and instead start with the gorilla trekking experience.<\/p>\n My guide Freeman and I at the end of my tour in Rwanda. He was an excellent companion for 10 days.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n As the name implies, the park is dominated by 5 extinct volcanoes (Gahinga, Sabinyo, Bisoke, Karisimbi and Muhavvura) <\/em><\/strong>that sit on the border between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo. The gateway to the park is the city of Musanze, or formerly Ruhengeri, which is now full of tourist lodges to accommodate the highly successful gorilla trekking business. I stayed in the Five Volcanoes lodge.<\/p>\n Studies of gorillas began in earnest with the seminal doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin of George Schaller whose resulting publication, The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior (<\/em><\/strong>1963<\/em>), <\/em><\/strong>was fundamental to the subsequent and more well-known studies of Dian Fossey, whose research station in Volcanoes National Park is now the center of gorilla trekking in Rwanda. Fossey\u2019s work, highlighted in her book and movie, Gorillas in the Mist,<\/em><\/strong> successfully put the critically endangered primates at the forefront of ecological consciousness. During Fossey\u2019s research the numbers of gorillas were dropping precipitously such that the expectation was that they would be extinct by the turn of the century. Native poachers were killing all of the adult gorillas in a family to capture young babies for lucrative sales to zoos and for food (bush meat). Fossey\u2019s approach to battling the poaching was to hire militia to shoot the poachers. This was a war that she could not win. In 1979 the Rwandan government had plans to sell vast swaths of the national park for commercial development since the gorillas couldn\u2019t be saved. <\/p>\n At this critical juncture Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, who came to Rwanda in 1977 to work with Fossey, played a seminal role in demonstrating how gorilla trekking could be a much more sustainable strategy to the poaching problem. They helped, against Fossey\u2019s advice, to set up the Mountain Gorilla Project. They showed that gorilla families could be acclimated to short visits by strangers and that these strangers were willing to pay big bucks for the chance to look a silverback and its baby in the eye. Current fees in Rwanda are $1500 for a one hour visit. Both Bill and Amy also got their bachelor and doctoral degrees from UW-Madison, so there is a close connection to my home town. An important aspect of Bill and Amy\u2019s work was to educate the local Rwandans on the value of the gorillas. Now they are proud of the gorillas and work to protect them. Schaller credits Bill and Amy for establishing gorilla tourism as a conservation success story. <\/p>\n Now over 40 years later the success of the gorilla trekking strategy is evident in the multitude of tourist lodges in Musanze, the millions of dollars of revenue generated by the program, the Rwandan government\u2019s decision to widen the protected areas of the park for gorillas, and, most importantly, in the increase in the number of the once highly endangered gorillas. The graph below shows the best estimates of the mountain gorilla census in Volcanoes National Park from Schaller\u2019s initial estimate of 400-500 in 1960, to the steep decline to about half that number in 1980s, and the slow recovery to over 600 now after gorilla trekking was established. In the 1980s there were many experts who predicted that the mountain gorilla population in Rwanda would be extinct by 2000, so this is one of the best stories of the success of ecotourism.<\/p>\n There are now 28 gorilla families in the Musanze area, about half of which are acclimated to the one-hour\/day visits by gorilla trekkers. While the permits to visit the gorillas is quite expensive, it is clear that the money is going toward helping to sustain the animals. The guides, trackers and porters, who are supported by the permits and tips, are locals who now appreciate that the welfare of the gorillas is critical. Previously, many of them might have been poachers who killed the gorillas. Now gorillas are valuable to their own livelihood and they work to protect them. The government is also very supportive in providing armed guards to protect the whole enterprise. So, signing up to go gorilla trekking is an excellent option for anyone who wants to support these invaluable animals.<\/p>\n Every morning all of the trekkers and their guides assemble at the Volcanoes National Park Headquarters where the trekkers are assigned to visit specific gorilla families. Since the gorillas wander around the jungle from day to day, it is important that trackers first find each of the families so the trekkers can be led to them. The terrain is thick jungle and mountainous so hiking to the gorillas can be challenging. Presumably, they try to match the trekkers with their hiking ability. My guide asked me what kind of hike I preferred. Since I had just done a rather strenuous hike to Karisoke the previous day, I didn\u2019t see any advantage to going on a difficult hike. As a result, I believe, and because of my advanced age, I was assigned to an easy hike as there were several in my party who had difficulty just hiking on level ground, let alone through the jungle. The porters assigned to our group made sure that everyone was secure, though one person did stumble and fall into a nettles plant which required some first aid. We were fortunate in that the weather was dry and the ground was not muddy. We visited the Kwitonda family..<\/p>\n My guide Freeman seemed to know everyone of note. While waiting for the assignments to be made, he introduced me to Prosper Uwingeli, Chief Park Warden of the park. When I mentioned that I had come to Rwanda on the suggestion of Amy Vedder, Prosper told me that he knew Amy and Bill well and was very complimentary about their contribution to setting up gorilla trekking. Likewise, my guides for the gorilla trek, Daniel, and for the golden monkey trek, Emmanuel, also knew Amy and Bill and asked me to send them their regards. <\/p>\n On the left is the director of the gorilla trekking in Rwanda, Prosper Uwingeli, with Mt. Sabyinyo in the background.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Our guide Daniel for the gorilla trekking with Mt. Gahinga in the background.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Bushwhacking through the jungle to find the gorillas<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n We hiked about a half hour before getting to the gorillas. Each family is led by a male silverback who is an amazingly powerful specimen. Undoubtedly it could easily kill or severely injure a human with one blow. However, they really seem to be peaceful creatures. One of Fossey\u2019s seminal contributions was to work out methods to make the gorillas comfortable in the presence of humans. Whenever the silverback was moving about, our guide Daniel would make some low gutteral sounds that are apparently comforting to them. We were not supposed to interact with the animals in any way but on one occasion a young gorilla actually touched me as it was making its way through the line of humans, who were all facing the other way to watch the silverback. Basically all the gorillas seemed busy on foraging for food and ignored us, though they kept an eye out.<\/p>\n Stripping the outer skin before eating the tender heart of the plant.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The guide at lower right gives a sense of how close we were to the gorillas<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Youngster eyeing the visitors.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n You don\u2019t need a long lens!<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The silverback high up in the trees.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The silverback<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The silverback up a tree<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Unfortunately viewing the videos successfully appears to depend very much on your internet speed. In my limited experience, it needs to be >50 Mbps to load properly. <\/p>\n The silverback and a young gorilla.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n I also spent a day hiking to Karisoke, the site of Dian Fossey\u2019s original research station located on the saddle between the volcanoes Karisimbi and Bisoke. The buildings and grounds were completely looted and destroyed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. All that remains are Fossey\u2019s gravesite as well as the gravesites of some of the gorillas she studied, including that of Digit, her favorite. The hike to Karisoke is strenuous and probably the least interesting of all the hikes on my African trip but I had friendly companions on the hike. And since I had read a lot about Karisoke it was interesting to see it in person.<\/p>\n Hiking to Karisoke<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n At the gravesites of gorillas studied at Karisoke, next to Fossey\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n My hiking companions to Karisoke, Elysabeth and Joan. (photo taken by Elysabeth)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Another activity of great interest in Volcanoes NP is to go trekking for golden monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis kandti, <\/em>not to be confused with snub nosed golden monkeys) which are found solely in the East African mountains. These unusual and adorable monkeys live in large groups of up to ~100 and they seem to spend most of their time voraciously devouring leaves and vegetation. The trekking group was much larger for these monkeys than for the gorillas, but the monkeys did not seem distressed by having a large group of cameras and cell phones pointed at them. Occasionally they would leap from one tree or bush to another and I was fortunate to catch one in flight. This was much more difficult than catching the colobus monkeys (see below) in flight because it was less predictable.<\/p>\n Look out below!!<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n One monkey nearly stepped on my shoes as it whizzed past me.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n In the video below our guide for the golden monkeys Emmanuel entertains the group. He was much better with discussing the monkeys than he was at recalling the lyrics of the, apparently, famous Guns \u2018n Roses song. He was also a friend of Amy and Bill.<\/p>\n Nyungwe National Park is located in the southwest corner of Rwanda. The attractions of the park include chimpanzee and colobus monkey trekking, as well as a rainforest canopy walk. I stayed in the Top View Hill Resort. At the time we were there, the giant fig trees were full of ripe fruit and the chimpanzees were gorging on the feast. So pretty much the entire time we spent with them, they were not moving much except to pick off the figs and spitting out the seeds and skin while sitting high in the branches.<\/p>\n All of the chimpanzees were high up in the fig trees gorging themselves. This one was the alpha male.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n On the trail to the chimps<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Our chimp trekking group photo. There were trekkers from Mexico, Switzerland and the USA in our small group.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Canopy walk<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Ironically with all of the preparation to trek with gorillas and chimpanzees, my favorite primate trekking experience turned out to be watching a troop of colobus monkeys making their way through the jungle in Nyungwe. On this trip I was the only trekker and was led by 2 guides and 2 trackers. Part of the search for the monkeys required hacking our way through the dense foliage with a machete. But it was definitely worth it as the acrobatic leaps were astonishing, circus-like in character. <\/p>\n Bushwhacking to get to the colobus monkeys<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n After observing the monkeys making their way through the trees, I soon discovered that I could sometimes predict when they were going to leap from tree to tree and was able get shots of the colobus flying through the air. It was astonishing that they would always find a safe landing spot. My guides said that they had never seen one fall even though their leaps can be up to 50 feet! Apparently the hands of colobus monkeys are unlike all other monkeys: they do not have thumbs. In fact their name derives from the Greek \u2018colobi\u2019 which means mutilated. However, it is believed that this adaptation makes it easier for them to grab on branches during landing. Their long white mantle and bushy tail also help to act as a parachute to slow things down.<\/p>\n To add to the difficulty of the monkeys making their way through the jungle, several moms were carrying babies as they were leaping!! <\/p>\n There were several mothers who did acrobatic leaps with young in tow<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Here I am trying to capture the flying monkeys. Shot by one of the guides using my cell phone.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n In addition to the monkeys, the impala antelope also has spectacular jumps. In some cases they seemed to jump straight up into the air though it was difficult to catch on \u2018film\u2019.<\/p>\n Male impala with his harem<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n From Nyungwe, we drove up the coast of Lake Kivu and stayed overnight at Kibuye. In the morning I took a boat to visit a large colony of fruit bats (Eidolon helvum<\/em>) or flying foxes on Nyamunini Island (or Napoleon Island for the resemblance to a hat). The colony roosted in a grove of trees. When we walked under the canopy it stirred the colony up into the air.<\/p>\n Our first trip from Kigali was actually to Akagera National Park, on the eastern edge of Rwanda. I stayed at the Ruzizi Lodge in a tented cabin that overlooked Lake Ihema. The first day we arrived in time for lunch which was served on the patio overlooking the lake. While eating lunch, I was surprised by a sudden splash and the appearance of a hippopotamus surfacing for air. It turns out that the lake is full of the large beasts, but what a surprise for lunch!<\/p>\n Lunch spot, but at sunrise<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n My lunchtime companion<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n While driving around the park, I spied a pied kingfisher perched on a branch. It then took off and hovered over the water for a moment before dive bombing for a fish. <\/p>\n Pied kingfisher on a perch\u2026<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Hovering \u2026<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Banking\u2026<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Diving\u2026<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n What\u2019s the most dangerous animal in Africa? <\/p>\n The mosquito, because of the threat of malaria.<\/p>\n However, of the large animals there are more human fatalities by hippos than by any other animal. My guide Freeman thought that hippos were dangerous because they kill for the fun of it, not for food, as they are vegetarians. Perhaps one reason they are so dangerous is that they are much faster and more mobile than they appear. Shortly after we had this discussion and I was properly warned about keeping hippos at a distance, we were waiting near the boat dock for a boat ride on Lake Ihema. Suddenly I heard something crashing through the bush and heavy footsteps. 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Volcanoes National Park<\/h1>\n
Gorilla trekking<\/h2>\n
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Karisoke<\/h2>\n
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Golden monkey trekking <\/h2>\n
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Welcome to the Jungle! <\/h3>\n
Nyungwe National Park<\/h1>\n
Chimpanzee trekking<\/h2>\n
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Colobus monkey trekking<\/h2>\n
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Other mammals in flight<\/h2>\n
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Other flying mammals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/figure>\nAkagera National Park<\/h1>\n
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Hippopotamus<\/h3>\n
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