The BBC World Service broadcast two catchy Lake Bunyonyi stories this month. The first one was about canoeing to school, the second one about Punishment Island. As the Gorilla Highlands team played a supporting role, let us assess what we have achieved… The journalist, Patience Atuhaire, initially just wanted to talk about the “school bus” dugouts….
Category: Gorilla Highlands in Global Media
Press coverage of the Gorilla Highlands region shared by Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo.
Gorilla Highlands in a Dutch Travel Magazine
The Gorilla Highlands initiative is about promoting southwestern Uganda and northwestern Rwanda globally, and we have started 2017 well. Columbus Travel, the second biggest travel magazine in the Netherlands with 45,000 readers, has published a special edition called Travel Bucketlist 2017 with the Gorilla Highlands in it. They asked Dutch celebrities to share their travel tips, and…
Lufthansa’s “Neighbor Gorilla”, Corrected
The Lufthansa magazine interview we mentioned in June has been translated into English for their website. It might be useful to ad some corrections and clarifications: – permits for gorilla tracking in Uganda cost USD 600 (or USD 450 in November and April/May) – it is very much possible to get an internal flight to and…
Gorilla Highlands in Germany
Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline, produces a monthly magazine for over 300,000 of its customers. In the June 2016 edition of Lufthansa Exclusive our region gets 9 pages, a consequence of the Gorilla Highlands Press Trip that brought Jiro Ose here last November. If you read German or simply want to see some great photography, download…
Gorilla Highlands Cooking in Slovenia
Our rolex recipe got published in Slovenske novice, the biggest Slovenian daily, a fortnight ago. This newspaper reaches over 300,000 people on an average day, so having a full page devoted to our speciality and the Gorilla Highlands project leader is a not a small deal. Every time we put the two special words “Gorilla” and “Highlands”…
Gorilla Highlands on Danish Tablets and Phones
GoTraveling is a Danish interactive magazine for phones and tablets running iOS or Android. We are happy to see our region featured in its latest issue, through the photos of Marcus Westberg, the man we interviewed on our blog last Friday. Another step on the way towards the Gorilla Highlands becoming a destination the world…
