Tag: Echuya Forest Reserve /Uganda/
area: 34 km2/13 mi2
Located between Kabale and Kisoro, Echuya is a montane rainforest, the third remaining part of the extensive ancient woods that once covered most of the region. Its name derives from the big swamp at its centre. A remarkable birding destination, it is also home to blue monkeys, colobus monkeys and a group of baboons you might run into on the tarmac.
On a hill overlooking the forest and Lake Bunyonyi on the other side lives the Batwa “Pygmy” community of Rwamahano, one of several indigenous groups around the reserve. They prepare Batwa Today, an activity that starts with a nature walk and ends with a community visit that is unlike anything else offered in the Gorilla Highlands.
Our Stories:
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Total Surprise
Something extraordinary happened to me last week, quite possibly due to this personal blog I began to write, exposing myself in the process. I went to Rwanda to collect a bunch of Dutch business people, 7 entrepreneurs successful enough to be members of EO, a global peer-to-peer network that connects owners and founders of companies grossing…
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WARNING: Shooting Is for Kids Only
Watsup world it’s me, the one and only ENYAAAAAAAA with my third Enya’s Blog post. I just finished school so that means I’m spending my summer in the GORILLA HIGHLANDS. Let me get you through why I am at Lake Bunyonyi this time of the year… My bother Maani and I usually go to SLOVENIA…
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Background Story: Batwa “Pygmies” for Children
Wim Kok of Matoke Tours is well known for his creative ideas. Thinking of family travel in Uganda, he wondered how to engage children under 15 who are not allowed to track gorillas. Before his involvement with Matoke, Wim was a tour guide for another Dutch company. He guided tours all over the world, but…
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Raiders, Beggars and Thieves
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is so famous for mountain gorillas that it is easy to forget that it is home to 9 other primate species. One of them is the olive baboon. Baboons are intensely disliked by farmers who cultivate the steep, terraced hills of the Gorilla Highlands. People’s life is already hard enough, they…
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Focus on Batwa “Pygmies”
We always start the year with a meeting solely devoted to our partnership with Batwa “Pygmies”. Making sure local communities benefit from tourism is central to the Gorilla Highlands initiative and the Batwa are the poorest of the poor. At these annual meetings we discuss what activities can be offered to visitors and how much Batwa are…
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