Category: Our People
Our Stories:
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Valentine’s Comes Early: Love in the Wild
“You are special to me,” we like to say to our loved ones. What about proving that sweetly by surprising them with a truly special experience? Think about bonding on a remote island… On Lake Bunyonyi, quite possibly the most beautiful lake in the world… At Tom’s Homestay, a place nominated for Uganda’s Tourism Excellence…
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Building Traditions: New Year’s Eve Celebration on Habukomi Island
“How do local people celebrate New Year’s Eve?” visitors to the Gorilla Highlands often ask. Until 2007 there wasn’t much to say. The drumming that traditionally announces Christmas would get repeated to some degree, and that would be all. But now that we have awaited a new year on Habukomi Island ten years in a…
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Thanks, 2016!
Here in the Gorilla Highlands we respect the old. No Omugurusi, Umusaza or Mzee should be mistreated, no newborn could possibly be more important than those who have seen it all. So the way everybody seems to be eager to beat 2016 off the stage to clear space for 2017 feels profoundly wrong. Secondly, as a…
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Masozera Something in Between
Never had I thought there would come a time in my life when I would want to explore myself. Conquer my fears…. Walk.
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Blasio’s Flower
I don’t enjoy weddings. They take too much time and they are almost the same, wherever you go in Uganda. But when Blasio, Edirisa’s co-director, asked me to come to his first-born’s kwanjula, I felt I couldn’t say no. Also known as the introduction, this is the central part of the traditional wedding procedures. Busy…
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Missing Hippos
Out of the blue, three hippos appeared. They became the talk of Lake Bunyonyi, the lake so casually described as super-safe for swimming, with no bilharzia (more about that here), no crocodiles … and no hippos. Well, in 2013 they were very much there. For several days, until locals got tired of hippos eating their…
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As Easy to Pronounce as Drinking Water
This text was written in 2007 by Noah Liberi. He was 20 at the time, his only formal education being a rural secondary school in Bukinda, Kabale. But he would read and observe a lot and condense his wisdom of life into the story about Teach Inn Uganda that we will publish in weekly instalments. You…
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Our Grandest Trek in 28 Photos
As an introduction to the upcoming Gorilla Highlands Bootcamp we’ve pulled something attractive from our archives. This is how our global team hiked in June two years ago — through the Ugandan part of the Gorilla Highlands from Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. The 20 trek participants came from Africa, America…
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“I Liked It before I Hit the Tree”
Hello my public! This is I Enya again 👏👏. What’s up? Last week I wrote about police in Kampala but now I’m taking you back to Lake Bunyonyi, if that is OK with you? Your opinion matters the most to me! Yes or no? … You are all saying yes! Yay! Before I tell you…
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