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The 10,000 Gorilla Highlands Pocket Guide booklets that we printed in November 2015 are about to get finished! On Friday we visited the reservations office of Uganda Wildlife Authority, the main distribution point, and took back a couple of hundreds of booklets just to have something to use throughout May.

This is no surprise as the booklet is free, attractive and practical. Available at many places in the Gorilla Highlands region, in Kampala and Kigali, it offers useful information to both international and local people. It is our editorial policy to insist on pricing details even in paid classified ads, allowing a reader to quickly see what is available. No, no excuse for a potential tourist anymore: you cannot claim that you cannot afford a trip to our region while considering the budget you would invest in a city weekend with your girlfriend…

One can find our booklets at luxury hotels where a concierge will helpfuly give a copy to a guest, or at the cheapest lodges where a backpacker will collect them from a trademark banana fibre basket.

Booklet holders are made by the women of Lake Bunyonyi, primarily by Aidah Turinawe of Burimba on the western shore of the lake. Combining craft making with agricultural work, it takes her a couple of days to make one. The main test we have to submit holders to is stability on horizontal surfaces while the rest has already been perfected through years of practice (the Gorilla Highlands Pocket Guide was first published in 2013).

The next edition to be printed in June 2016 will include Musanze (previously known as Ruhengeri), adding a Rwandan district to the definition of the Gorilla Highlands. With the help of Marcus Westberg we sorted out the photography side back in November and worked on a town map in April.

The edition of November 2015 (a reprint with minor changes) was sponsored by a UNDP/WTO/UTB project but now we are back to the usual arrangement: for the booklet to happen we will need to collect advertising money. Text-only classifieds will go for $1 per word, making it possible for even the smallest hotels and tour operators to feature in the booklet and its PDF version (download the current one). We always plan the Gorilla Highlands Pocket Guide to have the right balance between content and advertising, so contact us quickly to assure you get your space.