Gisenyi Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I arrived in Gisenyi after a 3 hour plesent bus ride from Kigali the capital of Rwanda. The scenery on the drive was quite spetacular with lots of lush hills and an abudance of trees everywhere. Gisenyi is very close to the border of the DRC and is based on lake Kivu. The town itself is quite a pretty place and has a nice lake beach while you ca...

The two hour drive from Ruhengeri to Gisenyi was through picturesque farmland, always again over hills and into valleys, covered in fields of maize, cabbage, Irish potatoes, bananas and tea. My habit of falling asleep in matatus was taken care of by a suicidal driver, who drove crazily fast, obsessively overtaking anything in sight, and cornerin...

I actually had to think for a while to figure out what date and day it was. Even though it's only been 5 short days since I landed, already it's starting to feel like a lifetime ago (especially now that I'm not getting the work bulletions - bad week guys eh..!?) Nairobi for all my concerns didn't amount to anything too scary after all and I was ...