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Ultimate Toad
We bring souvenirs from our travels; some tangible, some not. A visit to the Gorilla Highlands region is an experience powerful enough that there should be a whole bunch of interesting things stored at your homes… Would you be so kind to share them with the world, together with your special memories? Please contact us!…
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One Minute of Video Beauty
Roel De Cock has recently travelled through Rwanda and Uganda and made this lovely one-minute video. In addition to the Gorilla Highlands he has been to Nyungwe and Kibale Forests, the Rwenzoris, Murchinson Falls and Queen Elizabeth NP, so prepare for a huge variety of beautiful shots. Thanks, Roel, for telling us about the video!…
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Focus on Batwa “Pygmies”
We always start the year with a meeting solely devoted to our partnership with Batwa “Pygmies”. Making sure local communities benefit from tourism is central to the Gorilla Highlands initiative and the Batwa are the poorest of the poor. At these annual meetings we discuss what activities can be offered to visitors and how much Batwa are…
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Perfect Custodian
Ruth Ndyabahika signed an agreement with Festo Karwemera yesterday, officially making her Grace Villa the new tenant of the Bakiga cultural museum and backpacker hostel. Edirisa has already handed over the keys of this property in the middle of Kabale Town. Who is Ruth and why was she Edirisa’s preferred successor? You might have noticed…
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Life of a Gorilla Highlands Volunteer
Katharina Lahner, sent to volunteer with Gorilla Highlands by Grenzenlos (Austria), is ending her three-month stay with us. We will miss her abundant positive energy, devotion and marketing skills! To celebrate her contribution we’ve asked for a little summary of her Gorilla Highlands life. This is what she wrote on Friday, before going to Queen…
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Gorilla Highlands Embraces Rwanda
Many Rwandans are jealous of Ugandans, many Ugandans are jealous of Rwandans.
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In Search of Great Stories – Press Trip 2015
Photo: Marcus Westberg “Who would have thought that a bunch of journalists and photographers could coexist in complete harmony for a whole week?” said a source close to the Gorilla Highlands Press Trip. Photo: Marcus Westberg (left), Jiro Ose (right) Nobody surely thought like that on the morning of 16 November 2015. The activity started…
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Silverchef 2015 Cooking Competition
The chefs came with herbs and spices. They knew they would need to use a pre-arranged set of ingredients.
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Punishing Work on Punishment Island Documentary
There is a story that every Gorilla Highlands lover of culture and history is eagerly awaiting: the Punishment Island documentary. An Italian documentary film maker Laura Cini (pictured smiling in the centre of the photo above) has been working on it since 2011. It will tell the sad tale of Lake Bunyonyi’s Akampene Island where…
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News About the Gorilla Highlands Spreads to Norway
Let’s face it – we are from a remote area somewhere in the middle of Africa, and making it a destination everyone knows about will not be quick or easy. But we will work on it, each and every day. Last year our leading photographer Marcus Westberg wrote an article about the Gorilla Highlands for…
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Become Custodian of Cultural Museum & Backpacker Hostel
As Edirisa focuses on its ambitious Gorilla Highlands initiative, the place currently known as The Home of Edirisa needs a new tenant. This is a colourful backpacker hostel in the middle of Kabale Town, arranged around Festo Karwemera’s fascinating cultural museum of the Bakiga. The Bakiga documentary below includes Karwemera’s guided tour of the museum: This museum was the reason…
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On the Way to the Total Guide
Sunny greetings from Lake Bunyonyi, from The Heart of Edirisa, where we have entered September 2015 with a new Gorilla Highlands website. It will be under construction throughout the month as we, slowly by slowly, update and post online a lot of great content from our award-winning Interactive eBook. This is not for international guests…
