Kigali Hotel

Will she wrestle with tigers, adopt half the orphans in Kenya, run off with a Masai Mara warrior or sod it all and shack up in a 5 Star hotel in Cape Town for 6 months...?? Watch this space...

... remixes of Shania Twain (you hear a lot of Shania here) and other North American songs...always interesting! When we checked back into Kigali Hotel, our home away from home, we ate a giant fish at the Senegalese restaurant for lunch, had a nap, and ...

... take to the Central Post Office, which is a zone where one can get a good exchange rate. On the way into Kigali, a stone’s throw from my hotel, he pointed to a branch post office and indicated that was where he was taking me. I told him I wanted to ...

... with the university students for a two-week program. Of course we knew none of this when Dr Swartz began working here in Kigali. Who would have imagined such a connection between a dentist in Kigali, Rwanda and a dentist from the Columbia, Missouri area? ...

... minutes in Bujumbura, we finally flew to Kigali where we landed after 02:00. I cleared formalities quickly and took a taxi to my usual hotel in Kigali, Chez Lando, not far from the airport. It is good value for the money. They have a few rooms for $60 a ...

... is quite impressive. I paid 5 dollars for .75 liter of water (yes that’s Europe) to rehydrate, before boarding the flight toward Kigali, Rwanda. We left a little late, but hoped to make up time on the way. The plane was less than half-full, a rare ...

Hier, toujours au pays des milles collines, nous avons visité Kigali; marché central Kimironko, Gahaya Gifted Hands (atelier d'artisanat de femmes), Camp Kigali (aussi appelé Memorial des Casques Bleus ou Memorial Belge), Hôtel des Milles Collines ...

... are condemned to repeat 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 ...

First impression of Kigali: beautiful,  impeccably clean, an unexpected land locked oasis. Surprisingly international as per my first read of "The New Times". Great ...

... to me and we spoke for hours on history, politics, my adventures, journalism and business opportunities in Kigali.  Pascale, the owner of the Hotel, insisted on accommodating me should I decide to make the move to Kigali. They were dumbfounded as ...

... , as I slept soundly, sandwiched between an enormous, loud woman and a rather smelly old man. Once in Kigali I got dropped to the cheapest hotel I could find in my guidebook, so cheap, in fact, that the good authors at Lonely Planet motheringly advise you ...

... Rwanda. The bus ride was fine, maybe not all that comfortable, yet at least we were not packed like pickles. When we reached Kigali we grabbed our backpacks and went searching for a place to stay, because we had not really booked anything, which was good, ...

... the sudden loud music in the bus that for a moment made us believe that were riots outside. Upon arrival in Kigali we checked into our fancy 1 star hotel "L'auberge Caverne", which was followed by a three hour lunch. This was due to the fact that despite ...

I awoke to a clear sky and beautiful sunrise over Kigali from our terrace. I headed downstairs for some morning shots and checked out the peacocks in the gardens, the early morning Rwandans (it was 6.15am) already on the tennis courts, or in the ...

... for older children, and well-worth watching.   When I first came to Rwanda in 1996, it was the only safe hotel for Westerners in Kigali, so I've stayed here many times. But now that things have stabilized, I've moved to less expensive digs at Chez ...

... café. I also walked by 'Hotel Rwanda' without knowing it, because the hotel in the movie is in South Africa, and the real hotel in Kigali is just a ugly yellow brick. After resting out a bit we went out to get some dinner, and ended up with at very ...

... people carrying all manner of things along the road again, and several markets forming up on the side of the road. Went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in town and even though I had read a few book and seem a few movies like “Hotel ...