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    Cyimbili on the Congo Nile Trail: Now & 50 Years Ago

    Cyimbili may well be the most peculiar overnight stay on the Congo Nile Trail. It’s staggeringly picturesque, lying right on the sandy Kivu waterfront and…

    cnt_team 8 May 2025
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    5 Historical and Cultural Curiosities of Lake Mutanda

    Lying in between Uganda’s Mgahinga and Bwindi National Parks, Lake Mutanda is a handy spot to relax after your gorilla tracking. There is much more…

    musanze_team 1 May 2025
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    30 Years Ago Something Terrifying Started

    On 7 April 1994 the prime minister of Rwanda, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, was murdered together with ten Belgian peacekeepers who had been sent to guard her.…

    Gorilla Highlands Experts 7 April 2024

    SABA Episode #3 — Africa’s Secret History

    This episode of SEE AFRICA BREATHE AFRICA might surprise those who thought we would be a podcast preoccupied with conventional travel questions. We are literally…

    Kahiri 14 November 2021
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    Kisiizi Falls: From Tragedy to Hope

    I consider myself privileged to live right beside of one the gems of the Gorilla Highlands region, the 30m/98ft Kisiizi Falls. This beautiful waterfall gives…

    Dr Ian 6 September 2021

    When Lions Ate Letters

    Lions used to be common in the lower altitudes of the Virunga volcanoes but are now are locally extinct, along with the leopard. Historically they…

    Ian 20 August 2021

    100 Years Ago Dr Leonard Sharp Revolutionised Lake Bunyonyi

    There are three islands on Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi’s that are connected through the deeply fascinating story of Dr Leonard Sharp, an English missionary (pictured above, driving…

    Ian 29 July 2021

    Rough and Tough People of the Hills

    The Gorilla Highlands Initiative was born 10 years ago in the land of the Bakiga (pronunciation: “Bachiga”; singular: Mukiga; language: Rukiga), the tribe from southwestern…

    Ian 1 July 2021
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    “No Persons of Sufficient Intelligence”

    “One has to admire the English: they managed to run almost half a billion people and control a quarter of the world’s land — all…

    Isabelle 25 June 2021

    Last Survivor of Lake Bunyonyi’s Punishment Island

    The ancient people of the Gorillas Highlands region came up with several horrible ways to discourage girls from getting pregnant prematurely. On Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi,…

    Katharina 22 June 2021
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