Country Info
- Kigali
- Capital
- Rwanda Franc (RWF)
- Currency
- 7,312,756
- Population
- RW
- Country Code
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Rwanda
Travel Blogs from Rwanda
Ruhengeri, Rwanda
... way to Ruhengeri, 2 hours northwest of Kigali. Ruhengeri is a very small town that serves as the base for Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda. We walked from our hotel to an area in central Kigali where all the private bus companies are based. We ...
Musanze and the like
Jeez, what a week it's been. I think it may even have been longer since I last blogged. A lot has been going on since we (if anyone is listening) talked. I will first ask for your forgiveness for the disorderly state that I fear this blog entry will take ...
Kigali Surprise
... city to do some exploring. Kigali blew us away! In a city in a country that has the recent reputation of Rwanda (i.e. a genocide not yet 15 years past), we were amazed at what greeted us. Fuelled by a great deal of money from ...
Hotel Rwanda
... but was still a bit surprised at how modern and nice it really was. Compared to where I left in Northern Mozambique, Rwanda is much greener with rolling hills that are almost completely utilized for Agriculture. The roads and infrastructure were really ...
Touching distance to a silverback
... the equator here) and had a nice swim in there. Each step you take on the bottom releases bubbles of methane that Rwanda is looking at to generate electricity both for domestic use and for export to surrounding countries. (After returning home and doing ...
Kigali Genocide Memorial
... people into one group or the other everyone got along peacefully, and it has ended up with 800,000 killed in 100 days within Rwanda and then millions killed as a result of the continuing fighting in North & South Kivu over the border in the DRC. And ...
Machine Gun Kelly
... Rick that the Phone lines were down in the Masa Mara. We were there for four wonderful days! Then we left two days ago to come to Rwanda. Our flight was late and we were real late getting in, then we usually get up at 5 am, so then we spent the whole day ...
from Kigali to Butare
... institutions, including the country's largest university, Huye (Butare) is still regarded to be the intellectual and cultural pulse of Rwanda. The next morning, on Tuesday, we visit the "Étainerie de Huye", where they make little tin use- and ...
GTZ projects in Karaba
Karaba is one of the 2 poorest regions in Rwanda (not really poor in comparison with the Congo!). GTZ started here with food security projects. Meanwhile have been associated to the projects many other components: - physical reconstruction - ...
Illness in Africa = unfair
... at Gisimba (Basco, one of them artists grew up there) Most of the artists that work there are well-known throughout Rwanda and Central Africa. They also do local community projects with the children from the area, teaching them intore dancing and art. ...
A time for Goodbyes
... , so we dug in with our hands for the royal feast. I had a great time laughing and sharing stories with some of my favorite people in Rwanda. Then we shared the final goodbye speeches in which I was told that I had become less of an intern and more of a ...
Miracles in Kibeho
... in Mexico. A priest and several other people were praying and they received a vision that told them to build this monument in Rwanda. It seems like a strange request from God to have given considering what else the funds could have been used for, but I ...
RWANDA
... second's thought,but their attitude was born of lack of experience in meeting foreigners and not malice. I finished my visit to Rwanda climbing volcanoes in the Ruhengeri region made famous by Dian Fossy,and "Gorillas in the Mist".It was ...
Mzungu in the Mist
... life I have heard about the Mountain Gorillas that live in the high Volcanic mountains that border the sometime volatile countries of Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The far northwest of the small country of Rwanda are the Virungas, ...
Weekend Update: Too much Fun in Kigali
... two late nights in a row. I went to 11am services at the Presbyterian church (I guess I'm officially Presbyterian while I'm in Rwanda) and met with the Korean girls and professor along with Valerie who showed up late (understandable since I just barely ...
A weekend with Valery and Friends
... to no electricity which meant I couldn't fry an egg and I had to go out. There were local elections going on in Rwanda on Saturday morning so everything except a few select western hang outs were closed. After breakfast and several chapters of "Love in ...
my week in a nutshell.
... today to explore, go to the library, maybe go to the Mille Colliene, which is where the true events that the film Hotel Rwanda happened. Although there is a lot of anger about the film over here due to the way and potrayed the events of the genocide, and ...
Why I Couldn't Update Sooner!!
I woke up later today around 9am in order to catch up on sleep. I went into town to try to get to an internet café to make all these posts, but the power in the city was out! I went to a supermarket in town that had a deli/snack bar and ordered a ...
Sombre Arrival
... survivors were also visiting and a few of them broke down into uncontrollable sobbing. The memorial documents Rwanda before the genocide when the Hutus and the Tutsis apparently lived harmoniously together before the colonization and ...
well...
so i wrote a really nice long blog about the past week. but i forgot to save it. so you will receive it sometime within the next week when i find time to drag myself back to the internet cafe! much love and happy st paddys day! xxx ...
Fun at Immigration
... in London. He was going back and forth between covering the upcoming referendum in Kenya and the upcoming presidential elections in Rwanda. He had some interesting things to say about the countries he covers in the region (Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Rwanda's Story
We spent less than 24 hours in Rwanda, however the taste provided me great incentive to return. The country, known for its thousands of hills, was lush and full of produce sprouting from its fertile soil. We spent the night in the capital (Kilgali) ...
Huye, Gikongoro & Murambi
... we were raring to go! After a delicious breakfast at the same cafe we'd eaten dinner at, we set off for Rwanda's National Museum. I had heard good things about this museum and following the visit, there was not a shred of disappointment: ...
Mountain Gorillas...It really doesn't get better!
... . A quick shower back at camp, we then set off for Kisoro, our next night stop, just 10km inside the Ugandan border. The Rwanda / Uganda border is a real eye-opener. There seemed to be loads of people walking over it without anyone noticing. We even saw ...
Gorillas in the Mist
... good or not anyways!! Anyways, if you have the opportunity, I can highly recommend going to visit the gorillas in Uganda or Rwanda. It really is an amazing, unique, and wonderful experience! http://youtu.be/mv533TFBl44 http://youtu.be/YKfXM6xWttY ...
From Poachers to Protectors: Saving the Gorillas
... by founding the Iby'Iwacu Cultural Village, a community-based tourism initiative, in the Musanze district of Northern Rwanda. Revenue from tourism has encouraged communities to protect gorillas and develop small-scale businesses. Today, the outcomes ...