Tag: Gorilla National Parks /Rwanda, Uganda, DR Congo/
National parks protecting mountain gorillas consist of the rainforest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, plus three parks in the Virungas, the chain of eight volcanoes straddling the border of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The home of Grauer’s gorillas is Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern DR Congo.
For our main Gorilla National Parks page with travel advice please click here.
Our Stories:
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20-Month Love Affair with Grauer’s Gorillas
Amy Porter’s relationship with animals is deep and intriguing. When she was a child, she would tell everyone that she “lived in a tree”. Years later, with an Anthropology PhD from University of California, Davis, and plentiful research experience with monkeys in South America under her belt, she went to the Democratic Republic of Congo……
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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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Get Your Copy of the New Gorilla Highlands Pocket Guide
Will this be enough to meet the demand? Let’s hope so!
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30,000 Chinese
It all happened very quickly—and was rather personal.
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1 Week of Hiking + Savannah – Jealousy = 29 Shots
Why would somebody opt for hiking through Africa? What is wrong with a good old motorised safari through Rwanda and Uganda? How can a walking safari be an improvement on that? It’s obvious: you get truly close to the nature and people of an area famous for its striking beauty and warm hospitality. The 29…
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Gorilla Highlands in a Dutch Travel Magazine
The Gorilla Highlands initiative is about promoting southwestern Uganda and northwestern Rwanda globally, and we have started 2017 well. Columbus Travel, the second biggest travel magazine in the Netherlands with 45,000 readers, has published a special edition called Travel Bucketlist 2017 with the Gorilla Highlands in it. They asked Dutch celebrities to share their travel tips, and…
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Mgahinga Gorillas Get a Baby
Cyizanie, a mountain gorilla belonging to the Nyakagezi group, gave birth yesterday. An American/Palestinian visitor Dina Tamimi had the privilege of witnessing the astonishing event, as you will see in her video below. The sex of the 11th Nyakagezi gorilla is yet to be determined. This news is exactly what Mgahinga Gorilla National Park needs.…
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Missing Hippos
Out of the blue, three hippos appeared. They became the talk of Lake Bunyonyi, the lake so casually described as super-safe for swimming, with no bilharzia (more about that here), no crocodiles … and no hippos. Well, in 2013 they were very much there. For several days, until locals got tired of hippos eating their…
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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…
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