Tag: Bukavu /DR Congo/
altitude: 1,498 m/ 4,915 ft
estimated population: 1,100,000
Bukavu, a city on five finger-like peninsulas, is the intellectual and cultural capital of Eastern Congo. It was founded in 1901 by the Belgian authorities and its temperate climate attracted a large European population. Architecture buffs can now admire over 100 buildings of the Art Deco style while today a different building style prevails — colourful, multi-storey and with elaborate soaring rooflines.
Just like Goma, Bukavu has a sister city (Rusizi) on the other side of the Rwandan border and a national park (Kahuzi-Biega) nearby. The Lwiro primate sanctuary and scientific research centre is another highlight in the Bukavu neighbourhood.
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Travel Advisory for the Democratic Republic of Congo: Insider Info & Superb Images
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a challenging place in many ways. It is best known internationally for poverty, civil war and Ebola. At the same time, it is also a land of opportunity. The population is rapidly growing (it has passed 80 million), GDP is on the march, there is an increasing…
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Fascinating Results of the First Ever GH Survey
UPDATE, 5 June 2018: Virunga National Park won’t open before 2019, therefore we are slowing down our integration of Congo into the Gorilla Highlands region. More here. CLIQUEZ ICI POUR LA VERSION EN FRANÇAIS DU RAPPORT It was a bold and delicate move, so we asked for advice, and then took some quality time to…
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Pourquoi Gorilla Highlands & quel est le plan (2018-2020)
Organisation L’initiative de Gorilla Highlands (GH) est une collaboration officieuse du secteur privé, ouvert a quiconque passionné par le Rwanda, l’Ouganda et la République Démocratique du Congo. Il a été initié par Edirisa, une entreprise sociale du Lac Bunyonyi en 2011. Depuis lors, des nombreuses partenaires gouvernementaux et privés nous ont soutenus en publiant dans…
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Bullets & Love
“Does the morning gunfire help define the parameters of the Gorilla Highlands? Marcus’ audio on his post was impressive. I hope it all ends with a colourful memory,” Jon messaged me from California last Sunday. We were truly ending our Congo experience with a bang, unable to leave the country because of an armed conflict.…
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Congo: How Deep Do We Go?
The headquarters of Kahuzi-Biega National Park overlooks a valley sprinkled with white buildings, as if in miniature, separated from the shining surface of Lake Kivu by gently rolling cultivated hills. Behind the thick walls of a visitor centre that could make Rwanda or Uganda envious, a coffee shop occupies one corner and a giant flat…
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