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Lean & Mean Developments — For Travellers Who Care
The Gorilla Highlands team stepped into a new era last weekend. At the first-ever All-Hands meeting of Gorilla Highlands Limited, we had 13 Rwandans, 12 Ugandans and one Congolese representative assembling at Kigali’s Resident Hotel. The reason: anticipated fast growth of our tour business, combined with Miha Logar’s determination to leave the daily pressures of the travel…
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Unapologetically Miha
This is the first Gorilla Highlands quarterly newsletter delivered to subscribers by email. If you wish to get future issues please contact us. * * * There were tiny gorillas all over the place: dangling from the tall bamboo trees, playing across the gently sloping volcanic landscape, and peering at a small group of visiting…
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ChatGPT Gets Africa (Somehow)
As Tour Business Coaching Program participants, we were encouraged to subscribe to ChatGPT 4. Visual art generation is one of its advances, and it has proved hilarious to explore what it knows about Africa. When asked to draw a map of the Gorilla Highlands region, it emphasised Lake Bunyonyi, and that was intriguing. Requested to…
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Crazy: Burundi, Rwanda & Uganda’s Gorillas in Three Days
The collapsing swimming platform at Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi has been rebuilt from scratch, courtesy of Wheeling2help! This volunteer organisation brings groups of Greeks and Cypriots to several countries, eager to make positive community impact. After several contributions to Bufuka Primary School — a new kitchen with school meals tops the list — they added…
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Alex’s Full African Menu (He Loved Every Serving!)
Our October was distinguished by a visit from Washington — no, it wasn’t Biden just yet, but Alex Wilson ticked many boxes too. From the moment he read about us in the Washington Post, Alex was a fan who wanted to become part of our tribe. With his background in high school teaching, he was…
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Border to Border — From Our High Season Months
On Uganda’s border with South Sudan, Kidepo Valley NP is a phenomenal destination that is not a common part of our itineraries. (It’s kinda far …) But when Ramon from Slovenia requested Kidepo, we were happy to oblige, and also added Semliki on Uganda’s boundary with DR Congo. (He had over 3 weeks at his…
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Queen Elizabeth Moonshot
Mojca had been looking for the moon in Africa’s pitch-dark skies right from the very moment she landed in Kigali. The stars were plentiful, but oddly never accompanied by the Earth’s more luminous natural satellite. And yesterday she finally spotted it, a full week later — and, very poetically, somewhere above the “Mountains of the…
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Eastern DR Congo: Beautifully Chaotic & Captivating
We finally took our first guests to Congo — we found two brave Scandinavians who decided to include it in their tour! Six years after we started to work towards integrating the eastern DRC into the Gorilla Highlands region and had our first Congolese participant at the Bootcamp, this very man, Espoir, led us through…
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From Post-Pandemic Experiments to a Proper Tour Company
Yesterday was a milestone in the development of Gorilla Highlands Ltd. After a successful year of post-pandemic experiments, we set foot on the path towards a fully formed tour company. No more shall we be a one-man-band helped by part timers and freelancers, we will evolve a properly staffed office. To help us on the…
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