This is The Guardian.
Today, a hike to meet the mountain gorillas of Varunga.
It's one of the maddest things I've ever been to.
It's a bit like Glastonbury, but if it was in the amazing national park surrounded by volcanoes,
Something that's very striking about this habitat is you kind of have humanity,
agricultural fields, buildings, and then it stops and it's the forest.
And we were right on the edge of that.
The atmosphere, it was one of kind of real excitement.
Lots of people kind of in party mode.
and we just watched this really amazing performance of people dressed as kind of zebras and drafts and gorillas and that represented different elements of the forest.
When Patrick Greenfield, the Guardian's biodiversity reporter,
went to visit Mounting Gorillas in Rwanda,
he was expecting the peace of the forest, the silent observation of animals in the wild.
Instead, he found himself in the middle of a huge knees-up.
We arrived really early in the morning, five-sixth, and even then the DJs were playing,
there was music blasting up into the mountains under this enormous stage that had two mountain gorillas made out of some kind of grass,
lots of kind of randon flags and people waving away.
This was Queeta Izina, where thousands of people gather to take part in an annual naming ceremony.
for baby mountain gorillas.
The gorillas aren't actually there.