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First GHE Interns’ First Ugandan Impressions
We are Mari and Niels, 25 and 23 years old and both students of International Cooperation at UCLL in Belgium, ready for our Ugandan adventure at Lake Bunyonyi. These are our first impressions from the country, after a week of acclimatisation in Entebbe and the first week on the ground at the lake. Mari: After a long but comfortable flight…
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What is in Store?
We have the following goodies planned for the first month of the Gorilla Highlands platform, for February 2021: DAILY WEEKLY MONTHLY ANY TIME We have an online community of 50+ people from around the world, all connected to the Gorilla Highlands region in one way or another — let’s see what kind of dynamics this…
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Adventure Begins
It’s 1 February 2021, 20 years after we started to put together the amazing team behind Gorilla Highlands Experts… We have done many pioneering projects ever since, but nothing beats what we are beginning today. Our intention is to give you a pleasant online space to destress, connect with like-minded people, learn something new and…
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Our Journey Begins – PLEASE CLICK TO READ
Dear expert/team member, Sorry for the inconvenience of introducing you to yet another platform — but this one should centralise everything and make our lives easier. One login, one website, all GHE together. Your current status is “subscriber”, so you are seeing everything here the way our client would. We will add many things for…
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Power Wellness: Never Underestimate Things You Haven’t Tried
Do you know that your life is a gift and that your feelings are valuable? Can you concentrate your heart and mind and take a weekend off, just for yourself? These are the essential requirements for Anina, an intuitive healer from the European Union, to help you find who you really are… Anina does not…
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Living to Eat: Digesting Our First Food Tour
“Do we eat to live — or do we live to eat?” we asked ourselves as we sat down at the veranda last Saturday. Awaiting lunch at the Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel in Musanze, we were embarking on a daring new Gorilla Highlands chapter… Half a year after we began working on Local Experiences, here…
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Confessions: How an Anina Experience Changed My Life
It was two years after I won at Miss Tourism and I appeared to be doing pretty well. But the result had turned my life upside down… Yes, I had found my calling in the tourism business and was receiving invitations to beauty pageants from around the world — but emotionally, I was a mess.…
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Tribute to Omugurusi Karwemera, the Icon of Western Uganda
UPDATE, DECEMBER 2024: Karwemera’s Bakiga museum in Kabale town is no more. We hope to bring it back one day. Festo Karwemera was a teacher right to the end of his remarkable life… People would come to his home on the outskirts of Kabale in Uganda’s Gorilla Highlands region to learn about culture, history, life.…
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Nyiragongo Volcano Hike: 9 Things to Know
UPDATE, MAY 2021: Nyiragongo has erupted. In December 2019 a Gorilla Highlands team member made it to the the world’s largest bubbling lava atop Mount Nyiragongo (3,470m/11,380ft) in Virunga National Park. She chose the Democratic Republic of Congo because of the adventure and because she felt that the country needed support, based on its turbulent…
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Meet Best Chefs of Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo
There’s magic in the air … and intoxicating smells … as sudden clouds of smoke appear and then disperse above workstations. Perhaps even some droplets of sweat trickle down under their hats… Four gentlemen and one lady are fighting for the right to be called the region’s best. It’s the afternoon shift of the 2019…
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How to Get Top Chefs Onto a Remote Lake
It’s a funny life, ain’t it? Here I am, organising a cooking competition — but being too busy to taste many of the savoury treats. And here I am, still, having my dearest friends assembled for Lake Burera Active Cruise, a special adventure on a lake I love — but staying behind at the hotel…
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Behind the Scenes of the Groundbreaking Pocket Guide
We feel that we have something world-class, a mini-magazine that has to stop being a shooting star and become the sun.
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Despite Obstacles: Bold Vision for Rwanda, Uganda and Congo
It’s the saddest week of the year in Rwanda, the time when survivors remember the outrageous tragedy that claimed one million lives 25 years ago. The Gorilla Highlands team’s humble contribution to the Remember – Unite – Renew theme of these commemorations is a daily photograph on our social media channels. These images celebrate the…
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We Are Still Alive. Very Alive. In 3 Countries!
Rainy greetings from Nyungwe where the Gorilla Highlands team has embarked on the last week of photography and video work.
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Adventures with Izy: Behind the Scenes, from the Heart
In this very personal blog, Isabelle Masozera explains the background of her family move to a new town.
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The Return of The Enya
I can’t believe it’s already 2019! WOW! Talk about writer’s block, am I right?! Mine was a massive one… You haven’t heard from me for TWO YEARS!!! Like what is this? How could my life have been so boring with nothing to write about??? But boy have we changed that since Christmas… I’ve finally spent…
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Fearless Batwa “Pygmies” Begin to Learn English
Norah (see the video above) was one of the 10 Batwa “Pygmies” of Rwamahano who got a Batwa Community English Class certificate at Edirisa today. In other words, they completed an introduction to the English language to help them with their guiding and with the Gorilla Highlands Batwa Jamboree that they are co-organising (April 2019…
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What Is the Point of #IAmGorillaHighlands?
UPDATE, April 2019: The Gorilla Highlands Batwa Jamboree has been moved from Easter to Christmas 2019 (more here) Have you come here because the #IAmGorillaHighlands campaign has made you wonder? Good — and welcome! The Gorilla Highlands idea has always been about respectful and helpful tourism, with the Batwa “Pygmies” as one of the main…
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