Tag: Mgahinga Gorilla NP /Uganda/
area: 34 km2/13 mi2
The smallest yet possibly greatest of all the region’s national parks encompasses three Virunga volcanoes: Muhavura (4,127 m/13,540 ft) with a lake at the top, Mount Gahinga (3,474 m/11,398 ft) with a swamp-filled crater, and Sabinyo (3,669 m/11,959 ft) where three countries meet.
If you track mountain gorillas here you are a member of a special club — one habituated gorilla group means only eight visitors per day! The park’s closeness to Kisoro makes it particularly interesting for budget travellers.
For our main Gorilla National Parks page with travel advice please click here.
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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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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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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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30,000 Reached, 10,000 Video Plays: What Next?
The success of the Video Map took our global team by surprise. We knew we had something special but we didn’t expect such huge, immediate Facebook effect. Our post reached 18,942 people because we paid Mr Zuckerberg $7 (yes, seven dollars) but the rest has all been “organic”; friends sharing with friends. We also prepared a…
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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: Backpacker on a Wheelchair Tracks Gorillas35 Days of Backpacking…
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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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Into Sabinyo Gorge in a More Comfy Way
The most popular nature walk in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park leads into the luxuriant gorge deep under the steep slopes of Mt Sabinyo. It is totally comparable to volcano hiking, in duration (5-6 hours), beauty, and even difficulty. To make it a little easier, the Uganda Wildlife Authority team led by Moses Turinawe, the park…
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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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In Search of Great Stories – Press Trip 2015
Photo: Marcus Westberg “Who would have thought that a bunch of journalists and photographers could coexist in complete harmony for a whole week?” said a source close to the Gorilla Highlands Press Trip. Photo: Marcus Westberg (left), Jiro Ose (right) Nobody surely thought like that on the morning of 16 November 2015. The activity started…
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