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Les voisins discutent la sécurité du tourisme au Congo
CLICK HERE FOR THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE REPORT C’était un geste osé et délicat, ainsi nous avons demandé des conseils et avons mis du bon temps à y penser … Et nous voilà avec les résultats ! Contrairement aux années précédentes, Il y avait des compétiteurs et représentants Congolais au Gorilla Highlands Silverchef 2018,…
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Chef Rama is First Rwandan to Win at Gorilla Highlands Silverchef
Rama wasn’t the only Marriott chef who wanted to compete; four of his colleagues wanted the same!
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Masozera Remembers What Happened 24 Years Ago
My father sitting next to the radio, his hand on his left cheek, eyes sunken and deep breaths. It was like he was dying on the inside.
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Pourquoi Gorilla Highlands & quel est le plan (2018-2020)
Organisation L’initiative de Gorilla Highlands (GH) est une collaboration officieuse du secteur privé, ouvert a quiconque passionné par le Rwanda, l’Ouganda et la République Démocratique du Congo. Il a été initié par Edirisa, une entreprise sociale du Lac Bunyonyi en 2011. Depuis lors, des nombreuses partenaires gouvernementaux et privés nous ont soutenus en publiant dans…
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Be a Man: Gorilla Highlands Pocket Guide is Your Friend
Ah, Easter… It’s a moving target.
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96 Years, 114 Children, 6 Songs
“Katarinaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaa,” you could hear a voice rise from Tom’s Homestay in the middle of Lake Bunyonyi, right there on the southwestern edge of Uganda. Sitting in a circle around a glowing campfire on a small hill north of the marshy bottleneck that divides Habukomi Island, trekkers from around the world listened to the traditional zither…
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16 to Battle for the Silver Hat
The wait is over… 16 brave chefs will represent 16 great establishments from 3 amazing countries.
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Progress in Pride and Self-Consciousness
What a coincidence! On the ridge separating the bamboo of Echuya Forest Reserve from hazy views of Lake Bunyonyi, five tents were pitched that early February morning. A laptop lit up one of them. And then the email came; from Riesstraße 25 in München, from Studiosus Reisen. Exactly five years after initiating Batwa Today, Studiosus…
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Pocket Guide Nightmare is Over
Even only one out of thousands of readers deciding to spend a night would mean that the investment has paid off.
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Silverchef 2018: Invitation pour interconnecter et concourir
L’initiative de Gorilla Highlands (GH) est un projet pour globalement marquer et promouvoir la region transfrontalière partagée par le Rwanda, l’Ouganda et la RDV.
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Silverchef 2018: Invitation to Network & Compete
To chefs, GH Silverchef means an event to both challenge them creatively and instil confidence.
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Let’s Be Fair: Kampala versus Kigali
It’s an undisputable fact that Kigali and Kampala are hard to compare.
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Revolutionary Ideas by Batwa “Pygmies”
Every New Year’s Day, a few hours after Edirisa’s traditional dugout canoe celebrations, we sit down with representatives from two Batwa communities. With some heads possibly still heavy, it may seem less than perfect time for an annual meeting, but it is close to an ideal moment. Batwa join the new year’s party not as…
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Fast-Tracking Congo and Wishing for Peace
Ian Cantwell, the Irish historian who wrote the bulk of the award-winning Gorilla Highlands Interactive eBook, returned from Congo two days ago… Oh yes, we wasted no time! The idea first unveiled in October and discussed at the Bootcamp in November turned into reality in December: fast-tracked inclusion of the Democratic Republic of Congo in…
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People, People, People: Gorilla Highlands Bootcamp 2017
They proved to be the toughest of the 20 participants from 7 countries…
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20-Month Love Affair with Grauer’s Gorillas
Amy Porter’s relationship with animals is deep and intriguing. When she was a child, she would tell everyone that she “lived in a tree”. Years later, with an Anthropology PhD from University of California, Davis, and plentiful research experience with monkeys in South America under her belt, she went to the Democratic Republic of Congo……
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Bullets & Love
“Does the morning gunfire help define the parameters of the Gorilla Highlands? Marcus’ audio on his post was impressive. I hope it all ends with a colourful memory,” Jon messaged me from California last Sunday. We were truly ending our Congo experience with a bang, unable to leave the country because of an armed conflict.…
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Congo: How Deep Do We Go?
The headquarters of Kahuzi-Biega National Park overlooks a valley sprinkled with white buildings, as if in miniature, separated from the shining surface of Lake Kivu by gently rolling cultivated hills. Behind the thick walls of a visitor centre that could make Rwanda or Uganda envious, a coffee shop occupies one corner and a giant flat…
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