Motel Ikaze Kigali
BP 2365 Kigali, Rwanda
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A Comfortable Start
... home in her home, and greeted us with a warm smile and a loose smooth handshake. The home is far from the mud hut (or something a step or two above) that I was expecting and includes high-ceilinged spacious rooms, a living room with couches and flatscreen TV and collection of DVDs, a dining room, a kitchen, 1.5 bathrooms and 2 bedrooms (I am sharing 1 with Eric and Sarah and Laura are sharing the other), as well as an upstairs where the 2 servants (who do laundry, ...
Rwanda rebuilding
... t get that and even after seeing the memorials and walking the streets, that machete wielding thugs killed on in all the news reports, I canīt see it. This is not the place I expected. The people preach forgiveness and say they have moved on as a country. Could they really have? Could you forgive? After all the chaos, the government here has done an amazing job of creating peace and unity. However, I am told, that to keep control of a potentially dangerous situation, the government ...
My life as a Volunteer in Rwanda
... The Rwandan
“highway” is a two lane road that winds its way up and down the
very hilly landscape. The official speed limit is 60 on these roads
but you can stretch out to 80 if you really push it. Our progress
toward Kivumu was often interrupted by truck traffic that was
crawling up the large hills. Apparently the trucks prefer to travel
at night to avoid the police who often inspect and ticket the
vehicles during the day. The police in the country ...
First Day in Kigali
... Rwanda for dinner which was a shame because I hadn't seen the movie and would have loved to see the hotel. We ate our food and kept the French-speakers company while they waited for their restaurant dinners to arrive. We shared the avocado and the fruit the Belgian woman gave us this morning. Now we are in our wonderful new room doing our phone/computer stuff & getting ready for bed so we can be off tomorrow morning by 8:30 am. A nice late start.
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Hotel Rwanda - the most expensive swim EVER.
... to reach our destination of Kigale today, we needed to go through the rigmarole of the border crossing. It passed fairly smoothly and without incident, although the Sarahs were left waiting for their more expensive visas, while the guy dealing with them was on Facebook. Ah! No hurry in Africa!
Once again once at the campsite, I wanted to go exploring. This time, a few people came with and we negotiated to get some taxis to take us to the Hotel des ...


