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Our Latest News & Stories
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Make Your Own Garden, Big or Small
Did you know that a little corner of your home can become a productive garden? You don’t need a large field or a big budget to grow your own food.…
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The Office-Home We’ve Waited Years For
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…
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Ebola & Travel to Uganda or Rwanda: Separating Fact from Fear
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 — the…
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A Collection of Moments Becomes a Story About Friendship
The Gorilla Highlands Experts video team has put together a little production about two weeks spent on Ugandan roads in 2025, with the highlight being the Illumineers’ Friendship Camp. Hard…
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Ambassador Training Launched!
“Media Day: Observe & Capture the World” said the program of the opening day of Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training. On the other side of Lake Bunyonyi the first expert was…
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Introducing: Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training (May-July 2026)
WHO IS BEHIND THIS? Gorilla Highlands Experts (GHE), a Musanze-based organisation promoting the transboundary Gorilla Highlands region shared by Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo. For more about us see: gorillahighlands.com…
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Papa & Mama Abby’s First Guests
How rewarding! A week ago our office team spent a full day on Uganda’s notoriously terrible roads of Kisoro, preparing the ground for three Slovenian ladies about to embark on…
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Ask for Teacher, Pour Some Beer
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…
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Don’t Miss Upcoming Trips
Did you know you can join someone else’s adventure in the Gorilla Highlands of Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo — and pay less for it? On our Tours page you’ll…
