Alenka Seher has visited the Gorilla Highlands region several times and travelled extensively around the world. She loves sharing her adventures through lectures and self-published books, and feels that this wealth of experience allows her to stay calm in any life crisis. Before retiring and becoming a master producer of jam, cookies and other goodies, Alenka worked in a multidisciplinary field connecting medicine and biology, interpreting PAP smear results in the detection of cervical cancer. She lives in Velenje, Slovenia. [bio updated: 2026-05]