Author: Gorilla Highlands Experts
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Introducing: Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training (May-July 2026)
WHO IS BEHIND THIS? Gorilla Highlands Experts (GHE), a Musanze-based organisation promoting the transboundary Gorilla Highlands region shared by Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo. For more about us see: gorillahighlands.com WHAT IS IT? A combination of tour guide and media training, equipping you with skills needed for two freelance money-making opportunities: You will of course…
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Papa & Mama Abby’s First Guests
How rewarding! A week ago our office team spent a full day on Uganda’s notoriously terrible roads of Kisoro, preparing the ground for three Slovenian ladies about to embark on a three-day hike. Today we hosted them for lunch in Musanze, Rwanda, hearing their impressions. It all went swimmingly! But let’s start with the most…
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Ask for Teacher, Pour Some Beer
Ask anyone in Bufuka, our little village on a Lake Bunyonyi peninsula, for “Teacher” and you won’t get directions to the primary school. You’ll be pointed to a home filled with laughter, chat, and the smell of obushera, the local brew. That’s where you’ll find Meble Kyarimpa, a 58-year-old grandmother of five. She’s never stood…
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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: Lost Co-Founder Climbs Back in the Window (Kampala 2010)Hot Hot Kampala (Volunteer Life Part IV)“What’s a Gay?” and Other Ugandan Sexuality QuestionsBackground Story: Global Team behind the Video MapKampala, Here I Come!Introducing: Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training…
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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: Steven Bizimana, 21-year-old barista at Crema (Musanze); his big dream is to become a cybersecurity expert one day You may also like: Last Survivor of Lake Bunyonyi’s Punishment…
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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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