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 was very kind of 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 draughts and gorillas and that represented different elements of the forest.

When Patrick Greenfield, the Guardian's biodiversity reporter, went to visit mountain 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, six,

and even then the DJs were playing,

there was kind of 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 Rwandan flags and people waving

away.

This was Quita Izina, where thousands of people gather to take part in an annual naming

ceremony for baby mountain gorillas.

I'm delighted to name a baby girl gorilla, Nharungu, meaning companionship.

I'm pleased to name this baby gorilla, Muzero, meaning reliable.

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