Category: RIP Tom Karemire (1945-2025)
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Tom’s Timeless Tale
Tom Karemire really is a living legend around Lake Bunyonyi — ask any lake-dwellers and they will tell you a story about him. At age 76 , he is still walking the hilly Kabale district landscape like a young foal, smiling and joking with all passersby, from older women to youngsters. Tom is the owner…
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Man of Many Hats Makes It Home at Last
This is the sequel to Borderline Adventures that takes us deeper into Uganda and delivers me to my Lake Bunyonyi home… As fabulously fertile as volcanic soil is, it is also painfully porous — I saw people fetching water from communal sources again and again, as the boda boda that Gerald arranged for me was…
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The Secrets of Our Most Popular Ugandan Hiking Route
People people, it’s Owen again! I’m here to give you a personal take on our most popular trekking direction that goes through my home area. Five different walks and treks utilise it, can you imagine: the half-a-day Culture on the Crest, 1-day Islands of Miracles, 4-day Three Upland Lakes, and the much longer Ultimate Hike…
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Why Tom’s Homestay Didn’t Win
Uganda’s Tourism Excellence Awards winners 2017 were declared last night at Sheraton in Kampala. Tom’s Homestay was sadly not among them. This was a blow to the Gorilla Highlands team that tried everything possible (see the video below) to make Tom get the award, and a disappointment for all of you who had voted for…
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Never Double Cross an Evil Genius
This is the queen of bloggers Enya Logar (ENYA!!! ENYA!!! ENYA!!! Yeah!!! She’s so amazing! ENYA!!! ENYA!!! ENYA!!!). … Shhh I know I’m pretty amazing but quiet down, and let me begin. So I guess you have all heard about New Year’s at Tom’s Homestay? For those who don’t know, what rock have you been…
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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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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…