Gorilla tracking

It's lame. Okay not lame but definitely not worth 500 USD.

It took us a day of travel, half of it on horrendous roads, then we trekked for a little over 30 mins out of which 15 mins were through the jungle where the guide had to cut some vines to make way and we were there. Gorillas are nice to look at and all but being so similar to humans, I was expecting more action. Sure there was one climbing trees and failing. Sure there was a cute baby. Sure there were a few throwing cursory glances at us. Not enough.

The best part was the baby wrestling with his brothers. Brothers weren't too interested but the baby kept pushing himself on them. Alright, that's a tad cute but nothing I couldn't see at the zoo.

If I was a 'list' man then striking an item off might have brought me some degree of pleasure since this is the only  part of world you can see gorillas in the wild. I'm not. I am being told that the trek is what makes it. Sure. That might be true but then I don't need to pay $500 to do a trek though a forest.

"It's a combination of a tough trek and Gorilla sighting at its end" they tell me. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts? Sure. Okay. But I still can't see it being $500 worth greater.