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Nature. Culture. Together. | tour, walk & volunteer | Uganda 🇺🇬 + Rwanda 🇷🇼 + DR Congo 🇨🇩 website: gorillahighlands.com

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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Friendship Camp Is Back! 🇨🇩🇺🇬🇷🇼 We’ve kept our promise: PARTICIPATION IS FREE. But a free place still has to be earned. We’re looking for those who are already making a difference and we’ll select participants based on the change you’re working for. More: gorillahighlands.com/2026-camp-ap...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🌋We are hiring! 🌋 Part-time Office Coordinator in Musanze, Rwanda. Rwandan nationality, 18+. RWF 150,000/month during probation. Apply by 4 Oct; interviews 10 Oct; start 14 Oct. Study gorillahighlands.com before you do anything! gorillahighlands.com/office-coord...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📣 Want to earn money as a freelance tour guide or media producer? Our second Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training of 2026 teaches both: 29 October to 1 November at Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda, then a month online. USD 70. Apply by 14 October: gorillahighlands.com/ghat
Poster for the second Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training of 2026: a smiling young guide in a sun hat, with binoculars and cameras, poses beside the dates 29 October to 1 November 2026 and the venue, Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda. Flags of DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Apply at gorillahighlands.com/ghat by Wednesday 14 October 2026, 12:00 Rwandan time (13:00 Ugandan time). WhatsApp +250 784 112 355.
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This shot from the sunny beaches of Rwanda’s Gisenyi — you can see Congo’s Goma on the horizon — is our summer goodbye. Until September when our media will be back, very full blast!
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We cherish the interns from UCLL, a Belgian university, who help us at Lake Bunyonyi in so many different ways, each for a 6-month stint! Milan was the fifth among them. “Adventure” was practically his middle name … gorillahighlands.com/milan
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Preet Fast Food has moved! Kigali’s first purely vegetarian restaurant has found a more spacious spot on KN 82, the same road it’s called home for over a decade. Good news for us too, as we don’t need to adjust the route of the Kigali Walking Tour. gorillahighlands.com/preet-moves/
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The tour guiding side of our Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training (GHAT) was behind us, and what better way to mark that than to throw one of the trainees straight into the fire? gorillahighlands.com/cyclist-lear...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Aletheia” means “truth” in Greek or to be more precise: that which does not escape notice, does not hide, is not forgotten; that which remains evident, the opposite of oblivion, of forgetting; that which resists the wear of time: gorillahighlands.com/an-artist-in...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The little secret about the soil here at Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi is that it’s tired, basically. Our land simply can’t cope with beans that refuse to climb, because the poor ground has been overworked for years and is losing its fertility bit by bit. gorillahighlands.com/antisocial-c...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
How $500 Can Change 100 Porters’ Lives: gorillahighlands.com/giving
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Great news: our unlucky volunteer Anne is back at work! She has completed her first week at a Bristol care home, still on crutches. Let’s now rewind to early February, on the shores of Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi … gorillahighlands.com/thrice-unluc...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Originally from Bukavu, DR Congo, Innocent Ciza shares an inspiring story about his journey. Now living in Kampala, he explains how Uganda has become much more than a place to live — it is a land of opportunity, warm hospitality, and professional growth.
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We Are Together: The Bukavu Boy of Kampala
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Uganda’s Supreme Adventure Park founder explains how Lake Bunyonyi’s activity-packed little island came to be, and what it offers today.
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Lake Bunyonyi’s Activity-Packed Little Island
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
5 hiking days on the Congo Nile Trail? With a bus ride to Kigali at the end? We had an intriguing alternative for Rachel, a British teacher from Tanzania. A strong hiker, would she be able to do the nearly 30 km between Kinunu and Bumba in one day? gorillahighlands.com/her-extended-congo-nile-trail/
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“End of last year I quit my job and went travelling; the mid-life crisis* kicked in. I did similar travel before but this time it was different. This time it was time for Africa!” Full story and more beuatiful images: gorillahighlands.com/mid-life-cri...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Did you know that a little corner of your home can become a productive garden?
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Make Your Own Garden, Big or Small
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Do you know how long we’ve been trying? For years and years and years! Finding a Musanze landlord willing to let us a house as both an office and a residence has been a struggle, since mixing the two changes how it’s taxed. More: gorillahighlands.com/musanze-offi...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The information about ebola in our wider region is all over the place. How can an outsider reconcile last week’s dramatic report from DR Congo by The Daily with the somewhat agitated video address by Uganda Media Centre showing business as usual? Some answers: gorillahighlands.com/ebola-travel...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Our video team has put together a little production about 2 weeks spent on Ugandan roads in 2025, with the highlight being the Friendship Camp (gorillahighlands.com/camp). Hard to believe they were able to pull together such a complete story from an amateur’s disparate shots and recordings!
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The first ever Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training was great fun! gorillahighlands.com/ambassador-t...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training is around the corner! For more information see www.gorillahighlands.com/ambassadors
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ask anyone in Bufuka, our little village on a Lake Bunyonyi peninsula, for “Teacher” and you won’t get directions to the primary school. You’ll be pointed to a home filled with laughter, chat, and the smell of obushera, the local brew. gorillahighlands.com/ask-for-teac...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Did you know you can join someone else’s adventure in the Gorilla Highlands — and pay less for it? On our Tours page you’ll find real departures by real travellers. Join their group, split the costs, see more. Or add your own dates and let others join you. gorillahighlands.com/tours
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Third time lucky — and what a city awaited on the other side! ML Rwebandira had been trying to get to Cape Town since 2023, to finally tell the world about our region. He has composed an epic story about the experience: gorillahighlands.com/cape-town-3r...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Letting them go wasn’t easy. Knowing they’d bring a little chaos and joy to their new places made it just about bearable: gorillahighlands.com/four-tiny-troublemakers-gone/
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Diana and Sasha are relieved — the rate card is ready at last! They’ve spent countless hours poring over costing spreadsheets and debating what’s fair and what will work. The biggest change is a return to tiered pricing. Continue reading here: gorillahighlands.com/travelling-g...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Young Rwandan entrepreneurs are investing their savings in fighting malnutrition with quinoa: gorillahighlands.com/the-quinoa-h...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
An 8-minute tour of everything that matters on our website (gorillahighlands.com) — and what’s coming next.
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Gorilla Highlands Experts Website: Wanna Look In?
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Our Friendship Camp has led to a remarkable opportunity for some of the participants! gorillahighlands.com/friendship-c...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Intense frustrations expressed peacefully … as much as we can. 😅 gorillahighlands.com/pocket-treas...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A fantastic video collection for anyone interested in hiking Rwanda’s Congo Nile Trail! gorillahighlands.com/walking-the-...
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Will you celebrate our silver anniversary with us, on Zoom?
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24 Hours to 25 Years — Join Us Online - Gorilla Highlands Experts
This frame from our Treasures exhibition looks back a quarter of a century, to the moment when Edirisa — the mother of the Gorilla Highlands idea —
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Pocket Treasure — an invaluable journey guide for lasting memories — is now available at 15 resellers, and online!
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Best Little Guide to Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo? - Gorilla Highlands Experts
Made with love.Sung into being.Carried through the journey.
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Have you recovered from Valentine’s Day yet? Every day should be a day for love!
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Love Has Been All Around - Gorilla Highlands Experts
The silver anniversary of the window idea (“Edirisa” in the language of Bunyonyi) is less than a week away. And since today happens to be Valentine’s Day, it
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Camping may soon be just one of the options at Provia’s home on Bunyonyi’s Habukomi Island.
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Let’s Create Provia’s Homestay 2.0 - Gorilla Highlands Experts
When Provia’s son approached us with a request to upgrade some of their homestay facilities, he had no idea how far our proposal would go. After all, why stop
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Echuya Forest was once home to Batwa “Pygmies” who now live on its edge.
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Listening to the Batwa, Not the Noise Around Them - Gorilla Highlands Experts
With the imposing Virunga volcanoes on the horizon, the tapestry of Echuya Forest Reserve becomes even more striking. Once upon a time, this was all one
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Does being online feel like breathing to you? 
Meet Elie, our Congolese volunteer whose stay at Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi turned into an unexpected lesson in disconnection.
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Elie’s Offline Anguish at Lake Bunyonyi - Gorilla Highlands Experts
On 20/12/2025 Elie Cirhuza set foot on Ugandan soil again, four months after his first stay on the shores of Lake Bunyonyi. Passionate about tourism and
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The highest summit of the Virunga volcanoes lies at 4,507 metres or 14,787 feet, and most people need two days to climb it. Not our hiker from Manchester!
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Who Holds the Speed Record on Mount Karisimbi? - Gorilla Highlands Experts
The gorilla national parks of Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are superb hiking destinations, with the Virunga volcanoes as the centrepiece. The highest peak is
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A young Ugandan who is in love with DR Congo shares his passion for peace.
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We Are Together: The Congo Boy of Lake Bunyonyi - Gorilla Highlands Experts
🇺🇬❤️🇨🇩 Hear a voice that unites, straight from the shores of Lake Bunyonyi!
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
18 Slovenians, many Batwa “Pygmies”, and our traditional way of stepping into a new year …
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Counting Down from Mt Karembe: They Hiked in 2025, They Canoed in 2026 - Gorilla Highlands Experts
“Zdravo, kako si?” guide Owen surprised a group of Slovenians at the end of December with this greeting. He freelances for us thanks to a volunteer from
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Great news indeed!
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Mama Nelly Is Cooking at Nkora Again - Gorilla Highlands Experts
We have some big news to share: Hadidja Nyirababikira, better known as Mama Nelly, is back in Nkora on the Congo Nile Trail! Six months ago we shared her life
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The launch of the Pocket Treasure booklet went well! The aftermath not so much …
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Booklet Launched, Then Daylight Hit - Gorilla Highlands Experts
We launched our Pocket Treasure at Kigali’s Kamahwa-Tsobe last night! Quizzed by Fred Murwanashyaka, ML Rwebandira guided the cheerful audience through the
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Guilty as charged! We’re sharing these wishes a little late, our team of course meaning “this year” when they say “next year” 😜 — but straight from The Heart, the historical name of Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi. Created by Elie Cirhuza from Congo, who has plenty more brewing. Can’t wait to show you!
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Our booklet means very little without distribution partners, without the people who will help actually get it into visitors’ pockets. That’s why we’re reaching out to hotels, craft shops, duty-free stores, bookstores, organisations, … More: www.gorillahighlands.com/pocket-treasure
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We aren’t resting this holiday season, that’s for sure! 😎
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Our Gift to the Region: Pocket Treasure - Gorilla Highlands Experts
What do you want for Christmas? Our region wants a beautiful little booklet!
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
8 months after M23 rebels took Bukavu, the city is as warm and dynamic as always. The national parks and banks are closed, the border with Rwanda is more user-friendly than ever, there’s a weekly community cleanup … We can’t take you to Kahuzi-Biega for gorillas but we can take you for shopping!
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How to Shop Smart in Bukavu (Rebels Love to Dress Well Too) - Gorilla Highlands Experts
Eight months after M23 rebels took Bukavu, the city is as warm and dynamic as always. The national parks and banks are closed, the border with Rwanda is more
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
An injection of youthful energy for our Lake Bunyonyi team!
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Milan vs. Bunyonyi: Not A Bad Start! - Gorilla Highlands Experts
This is Milan, a student of UC Leuven-Limburg, who arrived at Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi last month. Like others before him, he’s doing a 6-month internship
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Tom’s wife and son Felix will keep the homestay alive!
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That’s Provia’s Homestay Now - Gorilla Highlands Experts
“Munonga, munonga, munonga!” said Provia Ndyahisahe when we inquired about her interest in hosting people on Lake Bunyonyi’s Habukomi Island. “Much, much,
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The freshest, the most 🔥 version of the Illumineers promo video is here — with tons of footage from Friendship Camp! Feeling generous today? 😎 GoFundMe link is right here: gofund.me/1945c5b0
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Gorilla Highlands Experts @gorillahighlands.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This weekend — on 2 November 2025 to be exact — Sean from America begins his 6-day Ultimate Hike through Uganda’s stunning highlands, and he’s looking for company! For more info head to experts.gorillahighlands.com/seans-ultimate-hike/
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