Here is a highlight reel from one hike we took in Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda. This park was tough to get to - we drove for six hours across the entire country, on winding hilly roads - and a bit hard to access once we got there: you can only hike in the park with a ranger, and the rangers only go on specific trails at specific times of day (when we asked to go on the 9am hike at 9:05, they told us we were too late).
BUT when we finally got out in to the forest, it was beautiful.
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| A young mahogany tree. |
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| Forest ants eat all the dead leaves off the forest floor and recycle nutrients back into the ground. There were thousands of them in this line, going back and forth. And they bite! |
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| More ants. |
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| We spotted a bush viper! Our guide was really excited - these are rare. It was a small snake, barely a foot long, but apparently quite poisonous. |
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| A seed pod. |
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| A secret waterfall! We hiked from a high ridge down into the forest floor and down to a stream bed in a valley, then out again. It was magical being down along the water. |
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| A herd of butterflies next to the waterfall. |
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| Jennifer decided to take off into the forest. |
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| Posing under a HUGE mahogany tree. |
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| Tree ferns the size of Jim! |
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| A mahogany tree seed pod. |
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| Arguably our favorite part of the walk: on the way back up out of the ravine, our guide told us the best canopy was about to start. This is looking up into the roof of trees. It was beautiful. |
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| Our guide points out his favorite part - the whale in the trees. |
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| And to top it off, we spotted a group of Blue Monkeys as we were walking out. |
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| Before leaving our guesthouse the next day, the resident group of Vervet Monkeys came by. |
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