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BBC about Bunyonyi: Successes, Failure & Dilemma
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.…
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20 Best Stories from the Gorilla Highlands Blog
We have prepared a Flipboard magazine with the best of the Gorilla Highlands Blog (March 2016 – February 2017). Here are the links for those of you who are not on the (free) Flipboard platform: The first page we are sharing is from our website, to put a pin onto the global map for you. “Spectacular” may best define…
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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…
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Kigali-Based & Professionalised
Five years ago, on 22 December 2011, the Gorilla Highlands initiative was first made public. We circulated a photocopied concept sheet at a Banyakigezi convention at White Horse Inn in Kabale stating:– the region had immense tourism potential but suffered from remoteness, insufficient travel information, excessive focus on gorillas and lack of branding– the “Gorilla Highlands”…
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Stop “Borrowing” Gorilla Highlands Photos and Videos
Yesterday the guys who run the social media account for Uganda Waragi used the iconic Lake Bunyonyi photo that Marcus Westberg took for Gorilla Highlands. Without anybody’s permission, without attribution, without anything. When alerted about it, Marcus was particularly upset that his work was used to promote alcohol. After his protest the image was removed of…
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Who Are We Making This Website For?
We are back! We had been having strange issues with our website often becoming inaccessible. Over the weekend we moved it to Amazon Web Services and we believe the problem is sorted out. The website also loads a bit faster now. So, back to work… Eseential work! Some weeks ago we invited you to think…
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China, the Superpower We Need on Our Side
“So you would want to translate it into Chinese?” he wanted to understand our plans.
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Join the Tagline Debate
As we expand our coverage to Rwanda, the Gorilla Highlands website is being re-organised and re-thought. Could you take part in choosing our new tagline? The current tagline can be seen just under the logo at the top of this page. This is how it looks as a Google search output: The problem with “trek…
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Pocket Guides Covering Our Transboundary Region
It was not a little job to add Rwanda, almost double the number of pages and make it all happen during the high tourism season.
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