Lake Kivu Goma

... rebel groups, refugees, and plain criminals. Back in November, Nakunda, a rebel Tutsi commander, had caused real havoc around the Goma/Lake Kivu area, but by the time I was arriving, things had gone relatively calm. When you are speaking about Congo, ...

... easily! Now I am just rambling. Cut to the more interesting bits. Last weekend we went up to Gisenyi which is on the edge of Lake Kivu, Rwanda’s biggest lake. It is also right on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which means at times ...

... months will more often than not be a home away from home away from home; I am based in the city of Goma (opposite shore of Lake Kivu) at, yes, another lakeside house but will be predominately bouncing from jungle village health center to jungle village ...

... the reasons I had extended my time with Didi.  Due to the cancelled trip, we had time go down to lake Kivu and purchase the boat tickets for our journey to Bukavu on Wednesday.  This also gave me opportunity to see the incredible shortage ...

... how the road split up and swallowed everything around it, how her and Jo were separated on either side, how they fled Goma by boat on Lake Kivu to the Rwandan side, and how the house they had just moved out of, was swallowed up by the hot-flowing lava ...

... started taunting me. I ignored them, but was thinking I deserved this after shouting at that other kid. I finally reached the beach of Lake Kivu and saw my hotel, the Palm Beach Hotel, standing before me abandoned and closed. It was an old ...

... altogether.  If the film of my life were shown, entering DRC would start with a shot from high above.  The dark green of Lake Kivu shimmers in the background with the towering hills of Rwanda shooting up to frame it on the eastern shore and ...

...  is famous for the eruption of its huge Volcano in 2002 which wiped out of the town as the lava ran into lake Kivu.  The huge lava flow also shortened the runway at the Goma airport- the busiest of the region.  Since then there has ...

... existence of severe economic depression, is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to in my life. Goma is located right on the shores of Lake Kivu around which green mountains and hills rise up in every direction. Hopefully, in a couple weeks, ...

... took us around town......a recent eruption from a nearby volcano poured several streets full of lava as it flowed down to Lake Kivu.  The people have flattened the lava flow that burned down their houses.....then used the lava to build houses and ...