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View from our room in Musanze Courtyard in Kigali at Gorilla Hotel Room in Kigali Manager and I at hotel in Musanze, wonderful location and great folks.

Hotel Gorillas Kigali

Rue des Parcs, Kiyovo Kigali, 1782, Rwanda

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Fun at Immigration

A travel blog entry by matt_werner

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Didn't have brekkie at the hostel again, instead went to the little shanty next door for a 60 Ksh brekkie that was just as tasty as what the hostel kitchen dishes up. Wandered around the CBD for a while to pass the time, some safari tout started following me around chatting. He wasn’t too bad, in the end he told me a lot more about Nairobi …

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A Comfortable Start

A travel blog entry by sps5032

... was easily found and we happily left the airport for our first glimpse of the city during night.

My first impression of the city is that it is very clean (cleaner, even, than most cities in the US), relaxed, up-and-coming, fairly prosperous, hilly (elevation is about 1200m), and safe, perhaps the antithesis to my experience of Mumbai's intensity. The people are friendly, have a loose gait and wear loose clothes, many businessmen and a few white ...

Rwanda rebuilding

A travel blog entry by grahamyoung

... and has a mandatory public cleaning day!) and modern, it almost feels as though we have left Africa and entered Europe as we walk the streets here... almost. It has been very hard to believe that these friendly, shy, smiling people are the perpetrators and the victims of what happened here.

The genocide memorial is at the top of the list of things to see here and we made our way there on our first full day. It is in a beautiful white building looking out over the hills of ...

My life as a Volunteer in Rwanda

A travel blog entry by homeworkfilms

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... city of Kigali was.
Lights dotted the landscape surrounding the runway. The airport
itself was quite small, with no gates and a tiny overall imprint.
After paying for my Visa and gathering my luggage I walked out of
security to find Valerie and Ivica waiting for me. Ivica is a
Franciscan and the head of the Father Vjeko Center. He is also a
wonderful man and has been a very accommodating and helpful guide
here so far. The same can be said for Valerie. It is ...

First Day in Kigali

A travel blog entry by dmarek

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... exactly sure how the system worked or how much it would cost...it ended up costing a dollar for the two of us. It had started raining so we had to dodge some raindrops but didn't really get wet. The Tourist Bureau was closed so we basically walked around trying to find something of interest, e.g., some local markets.

We didn't find a big produce market but checked out a number of the local shops. Juliet bought a big bag for extras...at the end of the ...

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