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- Bujumbura
- Capital
- Burundi Franc (BIF)
- Currency
- 6,223,897
- Population
- BI
- Country Code
Bujumbura Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bujumbura, Burundi
Kigali to Bujumbura to Kigoma
This is a top pick! BURUNDI Bujumbura. 15th - 16th January 2007 Monday 15th Only after the 'Yahoo!' bus/coaster had left the outskirts of Kigali, did I realise I had left behind my hiking boots (obviously David thought I had given them to him). The only ...
From Civil War to Simply Civil - Burundi
This is a top pick! ... generated by our bus driver's obsession with demonstrating his high speed driving skills on twisting treacherous mountain roads. I'm now in Bujumbura, the capital. It's a strange place but I like it. It's very hot and muggy, and sits on ...
Oh, Who Are the People In Your Neighborhood...
... wondering who's in charge around here. Their children are also native Burundians that they adopted 3 years ago from an orphanage in Bujumbura. Justin and Emma (whom you've seen before because I just get a kick out of posting pictures of them) have ...
Adaptations
This entry is for those of you curious about some of the variations between life in the U.S. and life here in Burundi. I've begun to realize that although things look quite different here, similarities sometimes sneak up in unexpected forms. ...
Don't Send Packages
... to Burundi, the postal system does not work here quite the same as it does at home. Once packages arrive in Burundi, two to three weeks after they left the sender's hands back home, the fortunate recipient gets a card announcing their ...
End of Burundi Chapter 1
... UK went home to spend a couple of months with her family and allowed me to stay in her house during my final weeks in Bujumbura for this school year. As much as I had enjoyed the apartment, it had become rather noisy with increasing traffic on the street ...
Independence Day and general observations
My first full day in Bujumbura happened to be Burundian Independence Day, July 1st, and so I got to watch a wee bit of the parade (there's only one as far as I know, at least here in Bujumbura). Unlike parades in the U.S., there weren't any floats ...
Contact information - How you can reach me
... address above, and I will add you to my list. Also, I can receive regular mail sent c/o Nikondeha, P.O. Box 2810, Bujumbura, Burundi, Africa. Packages containing anything of value may or may not make it to me intact, but letters should be ...
La Crise
Driving in from the airport to the capital city of Bujumbura as we passed street after street of tin shacks and tiny stores, I kept wondering when we would get to the city. Turns out aside from a handful of commercial streets in the very center of the ...
Thanksgiving with Burundian Family and Friends
... lack of food or opportunities for thankfulness. Le Menu Roasted Chicken (turkeys are rare and not so tasty in Burundi I'm told) Mashed Potatoes with Gravy Stuffing Green Beans Carrots Buttered Dinner Rolls Tossed Salad Fruit Salad Mini Pizzas ...
One More Housemate
I've gotten more comments regarding the gecko (and my fear of it) that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago than anything else I've posted so far, so I feel the need to give a quick update, even though I've already posted once today. After ...
Risizi National Park
... friends of mine and I - thank you, Duncan, for organizing and driving - went to Risizi National Park which is just north of Bujumbura off the road that leads to Congo and beside the bank of the Risizi River. For those of you who have never had ...
Chez Moi!
After two months of living with American friends in a large, comfortable, sheltered even, house, I am now on my own and living in an apartment in the center of town. If you have an image in your mind of a trendy, cosmopolitan, multi-storied ...
The House Where I Live - for now, anyway
... two adopted children, Justin and Emma. They have lived in Surprise, AZ for the past several years but are contemplating a move to Burundi in the next year or so. Three other Americans also live here - Sarah and Ron Gonski, and Grace Scale - ...
The Sound of Joy
This week I went over to the house where the 40 Batwa students will be living whom I'll be attempting to teach English and writing stories about for a church in Texas who is supporting them. I got to chat with a few of them for a little while ...
Much Rejoicing
Next week marks two months exactly that I have lived in Burundi, and I think perhaps I'm beginning to feel a little bit at home here. I still stand out freakishly and hear calls of "Muzungu" nearly every time I set foot outside the gates of our ...
Burundian Graduation
... because it was a while ago, this group of people is the group I'll be working with most closely during my time in Burundi. (For clarification, Twa is the sort of universal term, Batwa is plural, and Mutwa is singular.) Arthemon is one of only ...
Le Plage
... the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. It's the second deepest freshwater lake in the world and forms much of the border between Burundi and DRC (Congo). I have been told to stay out of the water when there are no waves because that's when the ...
Burundi
... fonctionnaires n'ayant pas voulu me faire le visa à la frontière. Et au consulat je fais rigoler quand je montre mon passeport français. J'attends donc mon visa rwandais, en visitant le Burundi : Pierre de Livingstone, musée vivant, sources du ...
Straight Boojee
... that place, although some had warned of banditry along the road as a possible impediment. In fact the road through Burundi to Bujumbura was fairly quiet on the northern side. Certainly armed members of the military were spotted often along the side ...
Native Drums
Last week my housemates and I had the privilege of attending a feast at Youth for Christ. In addition to gorging ourselves on a number of Burundian delicacies - many different cooked vegetables, fried plantains, rice, sauce with beef (none of which ...
Boo Jum Boor Uh
We had an unexpected layover in Bujumbura. Not unexpected because of emergency, but rather it wasn't on our plane ticket that we needed to stop. We were on a 747 after all and Nairobi to Bujumbura was only two hours. I remember being in awe of Rwanda in ...
Hungry hungry hippos
Having settled into headquarters, in a well guarded neighborhood that caters largely to the small expat community, I had a few days to explore the capital before departing for the clinic. Rachel, who knows the city well after spending a year in the ...
How I Fill My Time
... running errands, still rather unusual for a white person; jogging or reading in the "Jardin Public," my favorite spot in Bujumbura; trying out a neighborhood restaurant or coffee shop; spending time with friends at the beach (where I got my first African ...
The Batwa Project
... Senator, Bayaga, and I had the privilege of visiting a Batwa village in Bubanza, about 40 minutes to the north of Bujumbura, where my group was greeted with about 20 minutes of dancing and singing. The most fun part for me was taking pictures ...
A city rebuilding from war - Bujumbura.
... the mothering Lonely Planet cautions, and walked the streets at night, and never, ever had a problem. The biggest annoyance in Bujumbura is mosquitoes. It's at a much lower altitude than I have been since Ethiopia (I believe), so very hot, and the ...
An Unusual Wedding
... the signing of paperwork by each couple followed by their having their photograph taken beside a picture of Burundi's President; speeches given by several dignitaries, including a Batwa Member of Parliament, various other governmental representatives, ...
Just Passing Through
... of Bujumbura I was able to view nearly the entire city from the cliff side. Bujumbura has a very relaxed atmosphere which is a bit surprising since Burundi has had a violent history since achieving independence in the 1960s. Across Lake ...
In the Burundian capital for a few days
... some very interesting people there and had a good time together with the hosts, other couchsurfers and some other Belgians working in Bujumbura. Ah yes, and I realized that I forgot most of my French language skills as I acquired Kiswahili in Tanzania. As ...