{"id":128419,"date":"2017-12-04T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/gorilla-trekking-uganda-roadtrip\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:49:32","slug":"gorilla-trekking-uganda-roadtrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudavymkrokem.cz\/en\/gorilla-trekking-uganda-roadtrip\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Road Trip #3: How a Gorilla Came to Touch Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ll never drive in Uganda after dark again. We promised each other, and in the morning we set off really early. It didn’t work out. On the way to the Rwenzori Mountains (the Mountains of the Moon), darkness and a storm caught us.<\/p>\n

If we thought nothing could be worse than driving through dirt tracks in the dark, today proved that flooded two-metre-deep potholes are a brutal school of offroad driving \u2014 a matter of life and death. This was only part three of our Uganda road trip, and gorilla trekking in Uganda was still ahead of us.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/a>
After a 7-hour hike to 3,147 metres (shot with Canon 6D<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t feel like doing a two-day trek anymore. We checked into the hostel where the hike starts and declared we’d definitely go in the morning. Neither of us believed it though. We didn’t want to disappoint each other, but the depressing rain only brought the urge to get out of there as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n