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After the Bootcamp: How to Make This Really Big?
📁 BootcampThis is the grand vision of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative growing into the Gorilla Highlands Society (GHS).
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A Story I Couldn’t Write
I had a decision to make … a life-altering decision, as a new life would begin.
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7 Practical Things about Rwanda’s Gorilla Naming Ceremony
Kwita Izina, the gorilla naming ceremony organised by Rwanda every year since 2005, has been attracting growing interest from abroad. What is it and how does the biggest conservation event of the Gorilla Highlands region actually look like? 1. You are not going to see any real gorillas at Kwita Izina It’s better we deal…
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Book Your Easter 2019 for the Batwa Jamboree
UPDATE, April 2019: The jamboree has been moved from Easter to Christmas 2019 (more here) The Batwa community of Rwamahano and Edirisa through the Gorilla Highlands Initiative wish to announce the international event: Gorilla Highlands Batwa Jamboree taking place at: Bunyonyi Safaris Resort, Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda during Easter: 19-22 April 2019 The word jamboree means a large festive gathering and…
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Join Bootcamp 2018, Help Us Grow into an Organisation
📁 BootcampThe Bootcamp is something completely different: you camp, canoe, hike, dance and discuss while exploring remote areas.
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Are You a True Daredevil? Better Hurry to Lake Bunyonyi!
Update, November 2018: Three brave Belgians tested this road recently, and it remains a total mess… The murram road connecting Kachwekano and Heisesero (Muko) is the most scenic of all Lake Bunyonyi roads. Moreover, this 20 km route can save a driver 30 minutes compared to the tarmac option through Kabale Town. It is especially…
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People and Lions: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
📁 LionsThe 11 lions killed in Queen Elizabeth National Park earlier this year were just the latest victims in a centuries-old conflict, but one which has escalated in recent years. As human populations in East Africa have exploded, consuming increasing amounts of wildlife habitat in the process, the numbers of some of the region’s most iconic…
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“Guides were Amazing”
We had two big groups of hikers in the Lake Bunyonyi basin today, kicking off the second half of the high season. The Gorilla Highlands Trails of Uganda and Rwanda have been quite busy since June, abounding in canoeing, trekking and cultural experiences for adventurous people of all ages. We shall commence this half-season account…
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Close-Up: Who’s Behind the Pocket Guide?
They followed him around, wanting to be photographed…
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Pocket Guides will Conquer the World, with Mirika’s Help
“Why didn’t I find the Pocket Guide before coming here?!” often lament travellers.
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How to Support Kigali’s “Historically Marginalised People”
At first sight, the nursery beds and tiny cactuses in painted pots by the roadside look unremarkable. As in any other East African city, the residents of Kigali can conveniently buy decorative plants and earthenware straight from their cars. But the gentlemen who run the neatly arranged gardens that extend towards a swamp rich in…
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Too Good
Amused, bewildered or annoyed, this morning Uganda woke up to the new reality of social media taxes. Figuring out a way to pay those ridiculous daily 200 shillings (or circumvent the system) had to take priority over choosing a Sunday service outfit that your pastor may notice… This white Ugandan (OK, birders would probably call…
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It’s a Breakthrough — Colourful News on Your Phone
It was an interesting creative challenge: How to make a newsletter that works nice on WhatsApp? And how to make it appealing in countries with low reading culture? It seems we have done it: Gorilla Highlands News #1 (WhatsApp edition) The email version of the newsletter is being sent out on Wednesday 20 June 2018… The…
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Jump into the Future: Our Pocket Guide Roadmap
In 2013, the first 10,000 copies of the GH Pocket Guide hit the counters across Uganda.
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Rwanda Makes Uganda Jealous, the West Furious
Harsh words, but justified. Instead of thinking marketing or business, they think charity and politics.
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Virunga National Park is Closed. Time to Slow Down.
UPDATE, 24/1/2019: Virunga National Park will reopen on 15 February 2019. Yesterday’s announcement that Virunga National Park would stay closed for the rest of 2018 surprised no one. In a hot Congolese election year security was expected to become problematic, and the park leadership has always put client safety first. (The letter from the Chief Warden…
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What Powerful Simple Thing Do Indigenous People Crave?
Dear reader, allow us to transform your mind into a supersonic airplane and fly you to the remote areas of a continent of your choice: Africa, America or Australia. No matter which one you opt for, sooner or later you will land near a cluster of shanties, makeshift homes or houses that whisper — or…
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Fascinating Results of the First Ever GH Survey
UPDATE, 5 June 2018: Virunga National Park won’t open before 2019, therefore we are slowing down our integration of Congo into the Gorilla Highlands region. More here. CLIQUEZ ICI POUR LA VERSION EN FRANÇAIS DU RAPPORT It was a bold and delicate move, so we asked for advice, and then took some quality time to…
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