{"id":99910,"date":"2025-10-23T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99910\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:36:13","slug":"i-feel-overawed-gorillas-in-our-midst-on-one-of-the-worlds-most-diverse-safari-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99910\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel overawed\u2019 \u2013 gorillas in our midst on one of the world\u2019s most diverse safari experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIt\u2019s famous for its gorilla and chimpanzee safaris, but there\u2019s a lot more to exploring Uganda, says Jamie Ball\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A gorilla at Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge in Uganda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iwClouds 1201.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A gorilla at Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge in Uganda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019m in a Ugandan rainforest, surrounded by a community of 18 stunning chimpanzees. They pass our tour group, one by one, following their power-strutting alpha male. I feel like Tarzan, minus the loincloth, coming home to his tribe after too many years aping humans. I can\u2019t keep my eyes off them. The chimps, however, don\u2019t quite share the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To reach these primates, we\u2019ve trekked into the Kyambura Gorge, a deep, 11km-long sunken streak of tropical rainforest etched through tree-dotted grasslands in Kyambura Wildlife Reserve. We ignored fresh lion tracks along the tight, winding path, eventually reaching this near-200-metre-wide patch of rainforest \u2013 a place where pods of cantankerous hippos dwell in dark waters, and elephants and buffalo descend to drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s famous for its gorilla and chimpanzee safaris, but there\u2019s a lot more to exploring Uganda, says Jamie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,898,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-99910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}