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Our Website: Wanna Look In?
An 8-minute tour of everything that matters on this website — and what’s coming next. You may also like: Background Story: Global Team behind the Video MapBehind the Scenes of Our Social Media Photo MonthThe Complete Package (Almost There)
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Pocket Treasure’s Bumpy Road to 20 Resellers
This hasn’t been easy, our friends. A tiny booklet can cause huge headaches. More than half of what we received from our Kampala printers had to be discarded. The cases meant to protect the Pocket Treasure arrived in disturbing condition: the laminate was peeling away. But the booklet pages themselves were far from blameless —…
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Walking the Congo Nile Trail: A Day-by-Day Hiking Video Resource
César Niyonkuru has seen a great deal during his decades as a hiking guide on Rwanda’s Congo Nile Trail. When he was introduced to Rinda Scheltens, he worried early on that the long route might prove demanding for her. Their first day began at a gentle pace, and his doubts quietly grew. He wondered whether…
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24 Hours to 25 Years — Join Us Online
This frame from our Treasures exhibition looks back a quarter of a century, to the moment when Edirisa — the mother of the Gorilla Highlands idea — was unveiled to an equatorial community on 20 February 2001. * * * That’s why we travelled to Lake Bunyonyi this morning — Diana and Sasha from Rwanda, Elie from…
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Best Little Guide to Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo?
Made with love.Sung into being.Carried through the journey. Pocket Treasure. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gorilla Highlands Experts (@gorillahighlands) in the featured photo by Miha Logar: Steven Bizimana, 21-year-old barista at Crema (Musanze); his big dream is to become a cybersecurity expert one day You may also like: Happy 2025 —…
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Love Has Been All Around
The silver anniversary of the window idea (“Edirisa” in the language of Bunyonyi) is less than a week away. And since today happens to be Valentine’s Day, it feels like the moment to dive into all the love Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi has witnessed over 25 years. Here’s the thing. It was first built as…
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Let’s Create Provia’s Homestay 2.0
When Provia’s son approached us with a request to upgrade some of their homestay facilities, he had no idea how far our proposal would go. After all, why stop at repairing toilets if we could in fact improve the houses themselves? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if guests arriving on Lake Bunyonyi’s Habukomi Island could opt…
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Listening to the Batwa, Not the Noise Around Them
With the imposing Virunga volcanoes on the horizon, the tapestry of Echuya Central Forest Reserve becomes even more striking. Once upon a time, this was all one uninterrupted woodland expanse, but some 400 years ago Bantu farmers split what is now Mgahinga Gorilla National Park from Echuya. Our partners, the Batwa “Pygmies” of Rwamahano, invite…
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Elie’s Offline Anguish at Lake Bunyonyi
On 20/12/2025 Elie Cirhuza set foot on Ugandan soil again, four months after his first stay on the shores of Lake Bunyonyi. Passionate about tourism and cultural diversity in the region, this Congolese Friendship Camper returned as a volunteer with us. Elie was driven by the desire to improve his English and sharpen his multimedia…
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