{"id":116129,"date":"2025-11-25T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kevin-harts-gorilla-trekking-adventure-in-rwanda"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:16:37","slug":"kevin-harts-gorilla-trekking-adventure-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kevin-harts-gorilla-trekking-adventure-in-rwanda","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hart&#8217;s Gorilla Trekking Adventure in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>American comedian Kevin Hart has shared a vivid and humorous account of his family\u2019s visit to Rwanda, highlighting a dramatic encounter with mountain gorillas in his newly released Netflix special, \u201cActing My Age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hart, his wife Eniko Hart, and their children visited Rwanda in July 2023, exploring several of the country\u2019s top attractions, including Volcanoes National Park\u2014home to the endangered mountain gorilla\u2014and Akagera National Park.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why he chose Rwanda for the family vacation, Hart said he was looking for a destination rich in cultural value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to take a vacation,\u201d he said. \u201cWe went to Rwanda. I wanted a new experience, something that could give us a little bit of culture&#8230; When we go on vacation, the word &#8216;no&#8217; never exists. We embrace it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the first activities recommended to them was gorilla trekking, a suggestion Hart accepted under one important assumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I agreed to go is because, in my mind, I was like\u2014there has to be glass. I&#8217;ve never been around gorillas and there hasn\u2019t been glass&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to age restrictions, only Hart, his wife, and their two teenage children joined the trek, which included 12 participants divided into small groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get to the jungle, you have to hike through the park. The park turns into the jungle,\u201d he recounted.<\/p>\n<p>Their guide, Antoine, played a key role throughout the experience. Hart described him as a man who had \u201cdedicated his life to understanding gorillas,\u201d with deep knowledge of their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Before the encounter, Antoine briefed the group on essential rules\u2014no eye contact, maintaining calm, and showing submission when necessary. He even demonstrated gestures such as ground-slapping and rubbing eucalyptus leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen to 20 minutes into the trek, the group came face-to-face with several female gorillas emerging from the vegetation\u2014much closer than Hart had expected, and with no barriers in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The intensity increased when a massive silverback appeared, prompting the trekkers to adopt the submission behaviors they had been taught. Hart humorously admitted that he accidentally broke the no-eye-contact rule until his son reminded him.<\/p>\n<p>By sharing this adventure, Hart spotlighted Rwanda\u2019s globally acclaimed gorilla tourism program, which enables visitors to see mountain gorillas in the wild while supporting conservation and community initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>He previously participated as a gorilla namer during the 2023 Kwita Izina naming ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. American comedian Kevin Hart has shared a vivid and humorous account of his family\u2019s visit to Rwanda, highlighting a dramatic encounter with mountain gorillas in his newly released Netflix special, \u201cActing My Age.\u201d Hart, his wife Eniko Hart, and their children visited Rwanda in July 2023, exploring several of the country\u2019s top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":116128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1465,8829,758,522,8828],"class_list":["post-116129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-gorillas","tag-kevin-hart","tag-rwanda","tag-tourism","tag-trekking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kevin Hart&#039;s Gorilla Trekking Adventure in Rwanda - 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