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knowing about all the gorilla species, use this site--http://www.gorillas-

world.com/.

We enjoyed an evening fight from Lusaka to Kigali, landing in the

Rwandan capital after dark. Thus we were not able to appreciate the

wonderfully modern Serena Hotel. We were too tired after a very long

day and knew we would be on the go fairly early the next day.

As mentioned above, our first visit of the day was in The Kigali

Genocide Memorial Center. We spent about 3 painful hours there but it
was certainly not to be missed. It was gratifying to see young students

touring with their schoolmates (Hutus and Tutsis together) and there

were many older Rwandans with us as well. The young people were

properly grave and respectful and the older ones looked pained and

pensive.

Our uppermost reason to visit Rwanda was to see the gorillas in their
natural habitat. I can even say that our primary reason for traveling

anywhere is to see the animals and birds in their wild state wherever

Mother Nature has put them.

The next day, we drove out to the Gorilla Mountain View Lodge which

would be our home during our gorilla trekking activities. It is a very nice

place, comfortable and very large as well. Nice grounds and spacious

rooms.