If you can, you should....... no other way to say that. It is pricey but the experience is well worth it. And, again, if you can, book two permits to visit a different family. One question I was constantly asked was " how much compensation was I going to set in because the gorillas are so dark- the short, sweet and straight answer is "nothing" puerly because I don't "compensate". I shoot manually and set me light meter reading on a mid tone, here it was the green vegetation next to the gorilla- then shoot away without making life difficult. The camera is trying to set an average setting for the light reading in any case, so overide and set it your self- Easy.