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    Responsible Tourism

    Have You Heard?! We Won a Global Responsible Tourism Award!

    Gorilla Highlands was among the winners at the 2022 WTM Responsible Tourism Awards celebrated in London on Monday. We took the global “Contributing to Cultural…

    ML Rwebandira 9 November 2022
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    Trouble for Batwa “Pygmy” Communities: Echuya Forest

    This week we accompanied the last group of tourists into the wilderness of Echuya Forest and to the famed ritual tree of the Batwa “Pygmies”.…

    Owen 5 November 2022
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    Is Tracking Gorillas Ethical?

    105mm, f/3.2, 1/400s, ISO1600 Questions like this are tricky, mainly because only one of the parties involved — that would be us, the humans —…

    Marcus 2 November 2022

    SABA Episode #15 — Bad Things White People Do in Africa (And How to Repent) 

    The goal of this episode, according to Kahiri and Miha, was to make the shortest podcast so far, and listening to the action-packed 13 minutes…

    Jane 14 March 2022

    SABA Episode #11 — Eco, Sustainable or Responsible Tourism? It’s Clear (at Least to Harold Goodwin)!

    It was a no-brainer whom to invite as our guest for the 11th episode of SEE AFRICA BREATHE AFRICA focused on responsible tourism (we cut…

    ML Rwebandira 7 February 2022

    SABA Episode #10 — How to Be Good Partners to Batwa ‘Pygmies’?

    For the tenth episode of SEE AFRICA BREATHE AFRICA (we are now in the double digits!) I was sent on a mission to visit the…

    Kahiri 30 January 2022

    SABA Episode #8 — How to Change Africa’s Image Worldwide?

    On this eighth and final episode of the 2021 SEE AFRICA BREATHE AFRICA podcasts, the discussion revolves around something I have a particular interest in:…

    Ikiriza 19 December 2021

    Which Nations are Most Common Among Visitors to Uganda and Rwanda?

    Top 10 Countries Among Our Tourists in Uganda and Rwanda To answer the title question we of course tried to obtain national statistics — but…

    Matyas 14 December 2021

    SABA Episode #6 — Gifts for Kids, Begging & Smart Giving

    The sixth episode of our SEE AFRICA BREATHE AFRICA podcast explores one of the trickiest questions we get from travellers: What should I bring for…

    Charlotte 4 December 2021
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    SABA Episode #4 — Driving in Queen Elizabeth NP & Why Is Africa Poor?

    The fourth episode of our weekly SEE AFRICA BREATHE AFRICA podcast is, as always, preoccupied with the questions you send us. In the first segment,…

    Moses 20 November 2021
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