 Hello my friends, it is time for the mountain gorillas. So a lot of you who follow my channel know that I was recently in Rwanda and I was invited over by the tourism board to go on a trip of a lifetime and the goal of that trip was to promote Rwanda as a cycling destination and that's what I did that was the main part of the trip. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. But we also got to do some other fun stuff like visit the mountain gorillas and this is something that I'd wanted to do for a long time. I remember watching gorillas in the mist when I was a young boy and that movie was incredibly powerful. Universal Pictures and Warner Brothers present Sigourney Weaver, Brian Brown, in the true story of one woman's incredible courage. So I want to give you some quick facts about the mountain gorillas. They are definitely endangered. There's only about a thousand left in the wild and they live in a small region of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the reason why they're so endangered is essentially from human encroachment. Their habitat is shrinking but luckily the population of the mountain gorillas is slowly increasing and that's because there has been so much emphasis on conservation. Just to do what I did cost $1,500 so it's a lot of money but most of that money goes to conservation and they price it so high to control the tourism numbers. Mountain gorillas share 98% of our DNA. They're one of our closest living relatives. When we were out there we had to put on masks because we can give them even a cold or other illnesses. They live in family groups. We visited the Mujosa family and I don't want to give away too much here because we'll get into the actual trek but they're vegetarians. They live at high altitude kind of like me and they're super cute so let's get to it. This area is absolutely incredible. It's the rainy season so everything is green green green. That's called buffalo man because you see has gone so this is really a way of protecting us anytime the buffalo are becoming aggressive. So the gun is for buffalo? Yeah we scare them. We don't shoot them we scare them and then inside here work slowly slowly until we go to the gorillas. For break we'll be creating more breaks and then after break you keep going and then talk as well but you better talk in a whisper because you might have chance of seeing the animals and in order not to scare them we talk in a whisper. The maximum time we spend the gorillas it's one hour after the hour you come back and then you keep a distance so probably I would say beyond seven meters but the gorillas they don't know about the distance sometimes they come close to you so if they come close to you what do you do? We try to step backward slowly slowly anytime one touch you don't touch back to the gorillas because if you touch the silver bag the mom can think maybe you know something back to there to the baby so don't do that and take pictures as you want but no flash because the flash might have written the gorillas and once you are there we are together try to avoid staying separately and I know you can be excited so don't ponder the gorillas maybe you can say Susie look wouldn't say look it's a kind of they think you have something that you want to throw at them so don't do that and you look in the eye but you don't stare too much because by staring they may wonder why is this man looking at me like that and then they may be scared by being scared they shout if they shout everybody's coming to see what's happening so which is not good don't run away because if you run away you add him or confidecene can run after you so preliminary these gorillas are very smart before they do anything there is like some signs that they give us it's like an allotment and then we get prepared and then after if we tell you to squat down be flexible you squat down and then you submit be really submissive in front of them and then the gorillas will cognize that otherwise if you run he may run after you and then he may kick you but stay there if I tell you to squat down you do that but generally before they do anything by eating they're eating they don't have any problem they don't mind we are there and after seeing by facial expression body language and vocalization you start seeing them shaking the body trying to do some small movement and they produce the sound when the trunk touches the leaves plant like this start making this what happened and then already that's when you tell you please if you kneel down don't look in the eye you submit and we make the sound we talk we should do that if you are good at the other one you can do that which means everything's okay we are under submission and already the silver back may come pretty close to you you are down he's taller than everyone he's just moving around and he may even pass because he knows everything's okay he may pass like this he gives you a small push like this and then he goes but pushing it's not an aggressive way just for fun once he touches maybe you he may fall down but it's not really his intention to okay to do something about here so our guide has told us that there are also elephants in here and water buffalo and golden monkeys so we might see some of that as well and the really cool thing about this is sometimes when you go on a safari you don't know if you're gonna see what you want to see you might want to see a lion but you're just not going to see it but out here you're guaranteed and that is because they have trackers working all morning tracking the gorillas and he's in touch with them on the radio and they will be calling him soon to tell him exactly where the family of gorillas are making for about 30 minutes but he said they're right over there right like over there I can't believe it so you get to see this every day yeah every day four days four days every time special things with the gorillas that time you see just new things yeah even if once you go back there you can find something new so every time excited I can honestly say that that was one of the most incredible experiences of my life and we just walked right up on them I thought they might be a little spooked like other animals get but they did not care at all that we were there and it was fascinating to see the little ones playing with each other and rolling around and having a good time and then the silverback just chilling straight up chilling he's the boss and then when he moves everybody moves but what I really enjoyed was all the cuddling going on I'm a big fan of cuddling and they just sit and cuddle and groom each other and you know they share 98% of our DNA they're pretty similar to us you know maybe more than anything I love watching them just play I love watching the little ones play wrestling goof around annoying their parents just like us they're so similar us