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Announcing the GH Mega Trek
UPDATE, NOVEMBER 2021: The new GH Mega Trek time is May 2022. The details to follow. Imagine being in Rusizi, southwestern Rwanda, on the last evening of 2021… On the other side of the Lake Kivu bay, there is a city so beautiful and huge that you can easily think it is the capital city…
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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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Fast-Tracking Congo and Wishing for Peace
Ian Cantwell, the Irish historian who wrote the bulk of the award-winning Gorilla Highlands Interactive eBook, returned from Congo two days ago… Oh yes, we wasted no time! The idea first unveiled in October and discussed at the Bootcamp in November turned into reality in December: fast-tracked inclusion of the Democratic Republic of Congo in…
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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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Rwanda’s Gorilla Fees Double in Epic Surprise to the Business
It was an interesting weekend for anyone working in Rwanda’s tourism. Gorilla permit fees doubled overnight, to eye-popping USD 1,500. Rwanda Development Board has been exemplary so far in terms of selling mountain gorilla tracking to the world. Their press release says that the increase is in line with the country’s high-end tourism strategy and…
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20 Best Stories from the Gorilla Highlands Blog
We have prepared a Flipboard magazine with the best of the Gorilla Highlands Blog (March 2016 – February 2017). Here are the links for those of you who are not on the (free) Flipboard platform: The first page we are sharing is from our website, to put a pin onto the global map for you. “Spectacular” may best define…
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Who Are We Making This Website For?
We are back! We had been having strange issues with our website often becoming inaccessible. Over the weekend we moved it to Amazon Web Services and we believe the problem is sorted out. The website also loads a bit faster now. So, back to work… Eseential work! Some weeks ago we invited you to think…
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Join the Tagline Debate
As we expand our coverage to Rwanda, the Gorilla Highlands website is being re-organised and re-thought. Could you take part in choosing our new tagline? The current tagline can be seen just under the logo at the top of this page. This is how it looks as a Google search output: The problem with “trek…
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Background Story: Global Team behind the Video Map
Over three years, sleeping in grass-thatched huts and working in mud structures whose glass-less windows open towards a magnificent mountain lake, or from their homes across the globe, a small group of expert volunteers worked on a project like no other, the Gorilla Highlands Video Map. They cared about an outstanding region in the middle…
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