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.
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Innovation: Budget Family Travel in Uganda & Rwanda
The Gorilla Highlands Team is co-hosting #Africhat, a monthly gathering on Twitter that will take place between 7:30 and 8pm this evening (Uganda time). The topic: Family Travel in Africa. The occasion calls for us to share our recent pioneering experience with budget family travel in our region… At the end of December 2015 an…
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Backpacker on a Wheelchair Tracks Gorillas
Despite the anything-but-insignificant cost and physical strain of tracking mountain gorillas, this is an encounter many people feel they definitely have to experience. Even the disabled. Sunday Ndayakunze, the tourism warden of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, says that on average once a month they get a gorilla tracker who needs assistance. A visitor with disabilities…
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Fresh Photos from Sabinyo Gorge
In March we wrote about the upgrades in Sabinyo Gorge and announced that the waterfall at the end of the hike may be at its best in May. These photos taken last Sunday by Yonah Okoth take us back into the luxuriant wilderness… You may also like: Follow the Example of the Good People from SeattleMapping,…
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Gorilla Highlands on Danish Tablets and Phones
GoTraveling is a Danish interactive magazine for phones and tablets running iOS or Android. We are happy to see our region featured in its latest issue, through the photos of Marcus Westberg, the man we interviewed on our blog last Friday. Another step on the way towards the Gorilla Highlands becoming a destination the world…
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Mapping, Exploring, Adding Musanze
This time we are beginning from scratch.
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Meet New Trekking Hosts at Lake Kayumbu
The Gorilla Highlands Trails campsite at Lake Kayumbu is located on a cliff that belongs to Church of Uganda. That means periodical changes of the omushomesa (“teacher”/lay leader) family that hosts our hikers. In February our reliable partner Baker Tugume (see the video below) was transferred and a new couple moved in. Gerald Nizeyimana, 32,…
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Golden Monkey Lady
Of the two ways to track golden monkeys in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, the longer and deeper one exists because of the efforts of Sandra Gray. This former British nurse, now a primatologist, is so passionately committed to her monkeys that she cannot find peace in Europe anymore. Sandra and her team monitor golden monkeys…
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Gorilla Highlands in Japan
The Gorilla Highlands Press Trip we organised in November 2015 is slowly showing results. One of our participants was Jiro Ose, an award-winning Japanese photojournalist who lives in Kampala. His portfolio is remarkable; he has taken photos during the historic Congo elections, in the middle of the Sudanese refugee crisis, at the time when Jean-Betrand…
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This Gorilla Was in Serious Trouble But Then …
… but then Gorilla Doctors helped him out! Officially known as the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP), this international veterinary team provides medical care to mountain gorillas and Grauer’s gorillas living in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They intervene inside the national parks to help gorillas who are seriously sick or injured.…
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