Country Info
- Kigali
- Capital
- Rwanda Franc (RWF)
- Currency
- 7,312,756
- Population
- RW
- Country Code
Kigali Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kigali, Rwanda
Flushing My Bigness Down the Pooper
Mike. Phil. Jenn. I travelled to Kigali this past weekend, but only stayed from Friday until Saturday afternoon. Staying with a friend at the Hotel des Milles Collines (and yes, that's THE Hotel Rwanda for those scoring at home), I made a stunning ...
My Dear, Sweet Pinky
... 8230; well… black neighborhood. I reached for the handle to lock the car doors, but since I was walking, and in Rwanda, that attempt was unsuccessful, and said peeing ensued.) I was riding back from the airport recently, heading towards the ...
Making my way to Kigali
I am in Kigali, Rwanda. I left Uganda today after 2 enjoyable weeks there. I am back to travelling on my own after saying good bye to Lynsey. I want to do more solo travel at this point. I havent done enough of it and it was important that I do more ...
Rwanda
... ; What happened is beyond belief, but the country has taken giant strides toward recovery. 26th - As we only have a few hours in Kigali and Rwanda we went to the Kigali Memorial Centre at 12pm, mainly due to the fact that no-one should miss going here at ...
My first African Nightclub
... to meet some new people. All of us (except the Aussies) went out for dinner that night at a nice restaurant near 'Hotel Rwanda'. After dinner. Lyndsay and I met up with the Aussie girls and their new travel companion. Since it was a Friday night, we ...
A busy day of rest
... of the whole group , followed by others including one for the men who were attending this first francophone leadership conference for Rwanda and Burundi. While we waited for the food to be served, I noticed several of the local brethren ...
My Life as Spectacle
... stare or sneer. They have seen many of us, maybe even a lot in their day. Perhaps they've even once ventured to Kigali, where white people hustle to and fro like so many ants, carrying their packs on their backs, straps running down from their ...
A weekend in Kigali
... in their droves. Both "new Rwanda" and Israel have significantly shaped the political climate of their geographical region - Rwanda effectively created the conditions in which Zaire's long term dictator, Mobutu, was overthrown, and placed a ...
My Dirty Routine
I am a teacher. You know this. I teach P.E. and English. You probably know this too. What you don't know is what my day is actually like here, what goes on from when I wake up, to when I go to school, teach classes, finish my day, and everything in ...
Hotel Rwanda
... bags people would just throw their trash out the window, but that doesn't seem to happen here. Obviously, one of Kigali's top attractions is the Genocide museum, which chronicle's 1994 massacre (HEAVILY assisted by the French) of around 800,000 ...
100 Lbs Soaking Dry
"It's hot today." I looked up at and smiled at the sun, it was not smiling back, rather sneering, and beating down its rays upon me. My neighbor was in the yard as well. He agreed with my assessment. It was indeed hot. I strangely ...
Rwandan Camp: Day 3
... of Health where he had a 9:00 meeting with an assistant to the Minister. This was to move forward the dossier of recognition for Smile Rwanda. The rest of us continued on, arriving at Runda a few minutes before 9:00. I had called ahead to ask to have the ...
Nyamata and Ntarama Memorials
I went out to see two of the principal genocide memorials near Kigali today. Both are situated in churches that were so often the focal point of massacres after people flocked to them vainly looking for a place of refuge. In some horrible instances it was ...
How many people can you fit in a landrover?
... shade. They were not waiting for buses, they were just killing time, because they had no jobs." Our last night in Rwanda was Marcus's 25th birthday and it was classic. We insisted he dress up in a bright pink nylon jumpsuit, multicoloured shellsuit ...
Kigali, and the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center
... it", so is Rwanda doing its part to remember its past and those that were brutally killed. The Kigali Genocide Memorial Center is located in the capital of Rwanda, and is a reminder of what can happen when we do forget our histories. It is a ...
A Brief History of Rwanda
... let Rwanda down terribly in its hour of need. The UN had supplied a peacekeeping force, United Nations Assistance Mission For Rwanda (UNAMIR), deployed in October 1993, in order to try to enforce the Arusha agreements. They were grossly underfunded, and ...
The Saddest Place on Earth
... equalled the halves and the halve nots. The minority Tutsis held all the wealth in the country for a long time until Rwanda became independant and the Hutus decided they had enough. It started with small murder sprees, later turned into large ...
Kigali
... government conspiracy to screw foreigners) and making the plane actually wait for me (yikes!), I took the 2 hour flight to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills. I was promptly picked up by Julie, my cousin's good ...
Rwandan Camp: Day 2
... 8:00, but traffic was very heavy, so we had to take a detour and more than half an hour just to get to central Kigali. We stopped at a Bible book store to purchase Bibles for the young people that didn’t have them. We bought 7 Bibles in ...
Leaving Burundi
... I tried one more time and reached the Rwandair office. When I told them I was calling to confirm the 8:45 pm flight to Kigali, they replied, "didn't anyone reach you about that?" When I responded negatively, I was told that the flight had been cancelled. ...
Last full day in Rwanda
... on a back street. So I had a light dinner at the Bloom once again. My three friends got back around 9:00 or so and we talked briefly about the plans for tomorrow. It will be a busy one which will include my departure from Rwanda and Africa for this ...
Thursday in Kigali
... breakfast at around 7:30, after which they headed off to the CHK as it's called here. That stands for Centre Hospitalier de Kigali, which is where the Rwandan dental program of the United Church of God Good Works Project is conducted. They got set up and ...
An especially interesting day
... we've learned our lesson." Probably all humanity throughout all human history could express the same hope. We drove back into Kigali and had a brief breather before attending our team hosted for the dental staff at the hospital to thank them for ...
Rwanda
... saw hundreds of refugees with their belongings on their heads escaping from DR Congo. after this we drove down to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Rwanda is mostly famous for the genocide in 1994. over a million people were murdered here and you can still ...
To Giti and back
... van which, technically, had a capacity of 15 including the driver. There were the 4 Americans, 1 Kenyan, and 5 Rwandans from the Kigali area, plus Pierre. I've seen as many as 29 passengers, including children, in such a van; it seems there's always ...
My Home
... arrival in Kigali. I am very lucky, I didn't even have to look for a lodging, Cordula arranged everything for me. And it's a lovely house. I am very happy and I feel at home already. The first week in Kigali I stayed at Arlette's house, another ...
Atonement in Muhazi and back to Nairobi
... to get started so that we wouldn't run too late. Flight schedules had dictated that I was going to have to fly out of Kigali in mid-afternoon. A few days back I was notified that the Air France/Kenya Airways flight had been moved even earlier. So I ...
Cultural Changes
... was able to walk, clumsily with my payload of luggage amongst the commuters and residents, all the way to the hotel. Kigali and Rwanda in general are not famous for their facilities for independent travellers so there are at the time of writing, no ...
Whatever happened to the World?
I think everyone who visits Kigali and perhaps even Rwanda as a whole will at some point end up at the Genocide Memorial Museum in Kigali. I don't know if it might be out of guilt, morbid fascination or mere academic interest but alongside the Mountain ...