Author: Gorilla Highlands Experts
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Follow Us Here for This, There for That
Time to celebrate 🎉 — our multi-month regrouping on social media is done! We now have: 🦍 Gorilla Highlands Travels – touring & volunteering (Instagram, Facebook) 💡 Gorilla Highlands Illumineers – youth program (Instagram, Facebook) 🌋 Gorilla National Parks – all five of them (Instagram, Facebook) 🛶 Lake Bunyonyi – our Ugandan home (Instagram, Facebook) 🚴 Congo Nile Trail – hiking/cycling on Rwanda’s Kivu shores…
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Why “Illumineers”: Building a Young Future for DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda
Right from the moment we started dreaming about taking an active role in shaping the future of the Gorilla Highlands region shared by Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo, our foremost focus has always been on the youth. We see young leaders as the driving force behind the change we envision, while we stay open to unexpected inspirations…
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Comfort Is Comfortable & Shall Make You Comfy
Heard of Comfort Kansiime? She’s our freshest face and started in July, bright-eyed and ready for adventure. (You might’ve noticed we’re now officially called just “Lake Bunyonyi” on socials, but this profile will prove that Edirisa’s spirit is still beating strong underneath.) For Comfort, the gig at Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi is her first proper…
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DR Congo Opens Enormous Area to Oil & Gas Exploration
A jewel of nature created to protect Grauer’s gorillas, Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern DR Congo now stands on the edge — unraveling under the weight of a hauntingly familiar “collective failure.” You may also like: The Many Surprises of Lwiro in Eastern DR CongoSABA Episode #5 — Grauer’s Gorillas, Bonobos & Community IssuesMy Commitment…
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Koko Bridge Reopens After 13 Years
After more than a decade of disuse, the Koko Bridge connecting Musasa to Gihango sector that leads to Bumba has finally been repaired and reopened to the public. This long-awaited restoration allows travellers to cross the river safely, eliminating the need for makeshift crossings. Previously, hikers and bikers on the Congo Nile Trail had to…
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Drawn to the Thrill of the Catch? Consider Lake Chahafi!
In the hills of Kisoro, where mist rolls off the Virungas and time seems to slow down, fish from Lakes Chahafi and Kayumbu is nothing short of treasure. So valuable, in fact, that fishmongers won’t dare cut a Mirror Carp unless someone is ready to buy the whole thing. A single kilo sells for no…
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Checking on Our Neighbours: Kyahugye Is Madly Special
Life at Lake Bunyonyi Eco Resort hits different, trust us. You don’t usually wake up on an island to find a zebra and a donkey having a chilled breakfast outside your window — unless you’re here, of course. That’s assuming the crested cranes haven’t already shrieked you into consciousness. Cradled by the waters of Lake…
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Jenna’s Traveling Roots: Why We Made Our Home in the Virungas
Some very special people are choosing to live in Musanze, Rwanda … This is the second instalment in the Why We Made Our Home in the Virungas series, a story about Jenna’s Traveling Roots. (Click here for the first video, Lan’s cute take on his school called Virunga Valley Academy.) You may also like: Never…
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Congolese Saint in the Making — for Stopping Corruption!
This story is all the buzz in DR Congo right now: Floribert Kositi stopped 5 tonnes of spoiled rice from Rwanda, refused a USD 2,000 bribe, and was then killed by the smugglers. He’s on a fast track to Catholic sainthood. Can he inspire more youth to say no to corruption and yes to peace?…
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