Hotel Ubumwe Gisenyi

... every kind of weapon imaginable. Guns, clubs, machetes, and any other weapon they could find. Anybody that was sympathetic to the Tutsi people or were married to one was automatically killed. There was a request to the UN to send in a peace keeping force but the UN Secretary General denied it citing some kind of reason. Prior to the mass genocide, I guess the French armed the Rwandan army with all kind of weapons and ammunition with a multi-billion ...

... I few of the people from the group to say ..."I have no money" or my favorite, "Im not a bank!" I'll be returning to this beautiful place soon, the people are too wonderful to not return. We're on our way back to Kegali tomorrow afternoon to catch the bus to Nairobi Kenya.....a short 17 hour bus ride. WOOOT....so many pictures to share with all of you....when I return. Hahah Love hugs and kisses -Cara

... when a mother gorilla walks past with her baby clinging to her back, and then laying down and letting it climb up on her belly to nurse. Another gorilla was feeling frisky, and jumped up in front of us and did the classic beating of the breasts with her fists like you have seen in every Tarzan movie ever made. The cutest thing is that shortly afterwards her baby imitates her movements. Precious!<br><br> This family ...

... He said when he was younger it had been night and they heard a bunch of machine guns firing. Being a small town they didn't know what it was so went outside to see what was happening. Because it was dark the soldiers couldn't tell the civilians from the military so they were firing on everyone that moved. Their doorman got shot and killed but the entire thing lasted only a few hours before they retreated. What was strange was that he told the story with a big smile ...

... it had. To put it in perspective the rate of people killed was 10x the amount of Jews killed by the Nazis. For such a small country that's just scary. So the owner finally calls me at 5:30 to tell me that unfortunately the guy that was supposed to cancel changed his mind so he did not have a permit for me. So I didn't want to waste another moment so I packed my stuff and rushed out of the hostel (I also didn't want to pay another night as ...

... staying and as I was climbing on my boda-boda I heard the waves lapping and couldn't resist one mare day at the lake. I paid the driver the fee and went back to bed before spending another day swimming and sunbathing. I had to move to a different hotel because a conference was arriving at the Bethanie, but the Eden Golf was comfy and the food was good. I'm heading back to Uganda tomorrow in a much lighter mood than a few days earlier.

... waking the driver up very seriously: they decided to do some singing. About pineapples. They invited the driver to join in and let me tell you, he definitely woke up at this point ... Mainly because he was laughing so hard!!! We passed the remainder of the journey very comfortably, with a new burst of 'the pineapple song' every time the driver so much as prolonged a blink! When we arrived at Gitarama, Jennie and I embarked straight onto ...

... hotel with a pool and loitered beside it most the morning. We ventured down the road and found the Bikini Tam-Tam beach club, a rundown place loaded with locals enjoying food and drink on a Sunday afternoon. Returned to our hotel and talked with David and his wife, Claudette in the evening. Returned to Kigali the next morning and killed a day there before our flight to Zanzibar.

... make sure I wasn?t going to try to access the hotel?s facilities. About 10 minutes later, a beach vendor approached me. About 10 seconds into my conversation with him, the security guard started yelling at the vendor and telling him to leave me alone. This is when I realized why the security guard placed a chair by the border. It was to scare the vendors away so they wouldn?t bother me. He did this for about an hour scaring off several vendors. Each time I ...

... the road, and the houses and shops were built much closer to the road and to each other. There was, in general, a lot more activity. Still, the beautifully-manicured gardens were there, glorious flowers and healthy-looking vegetables. It seems both men and women share in the workload, in the gardens and in the fields. At one point, we passed a huge road construction site where people were hauling buckets of water and ...