Category: Our People

I often get stuck in my crammed little room. It has a bed as big as a football pitch (a headmaster once said), shelves with files and my multi-colour Getting Things Done folders, a wardrobe and a huge table; if your father is an architect you learn to demand one. The walls are brown, waiting…

Forgive me a litte detour… It would be worth mentioning the reason I missed the meeting in Rushaga: Uganda had sent me to Slovenia, my country of birth, to promote tourism in the Pearl of Africa. How it got to that was fascinating… In another life I ran a multimedia studio on the equator, near…

In the beginning of October a group of tourism people met in Rushaga Gorilla Camp on the edge of Bwindi, the rugged rainforest that hides mountain gorillas. They discussed how to promote tourism in Kigezi, the Ugandan side of the Gorilla Highlands region. I couldn’t attend but the hotel manager was present and shared the meeting…

I don’t walk much. That might be odd for somebody whose daily bread are hiking expeditions, however, there is always a passenger motorcycle somewhere around. There are tens of thousands, some claim hundreds of thousands, of them in Rwanda and Uganda. They are a dangerous yet strikingly efficient way to travel, and a handy way…

Hey, stranger, wanna come along into the heart of Africa? Let me take you to the shore of an extensive mountain lake that lies in Uganda and spreads its marshy limbs towards our neighbouring country, Rwanda. Lake Bunyonyi and the stupendous region under the volcanoes have been my home for the last 15 years, or possibly…