Kigali Hotels

... quite nicely.  As well, we frequently make our own meals/snacks so the local supermarket is always a good find.  Kigali has a large Nakumatt Supermarket, a Kenyan chain, which is very well stocked.  Rwanda, as a former French colony, has ...

... 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 ...

... prevent any killing from occurring in the hotel. Bribing the génocidaires, as they were called in French, mostly with alcohol from the hotels well-stocked cellars, he kept the hotel a sort of safe zone during the carnage. The film is well done, not too ...

... we chatted a bit in English and then French about safety issues, places of interest, how business is done, best value hotels etc., typical kinds of conversations for expatriates. After sitting on the tarmac for 45 minutes in Bujumbura, we finally flew to ...

... restaurants in town - and none were open the morning of election day. We then headed up to the genocide memorial museum in kigali - alledgedly 7km away but it didn't seem that far (taxi 3000Frw/ boda boda 700Frw). We were told the museum was horrific ...

... view the waterfall and acknowledge that we were now entering Rwanda.  With another stamp in our passports, we boarded a minibus for Kigali.  As we waited about an hour for the minibus to depart, I realized for the first time since arriving in ...

... shown us the sights, and taken us to locations of genocide events and various political headquarters. It also included a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, so Michelle and I just took a taxi over there ourselves.   I was pleased to see ...

... came back to Kigali. It's a thriving hotel now catering to people who don't want to pay the steep prices of the European-owned hotels in town.   I invited the three men to come up to my room and answer question from Nathan and Moïse. I set up my ...

... my fingers crossed! Tonight is dinner with a bunch of fellow volunteers at our favorite (and the best) Indian restaurant in Kigali, then maybe drinks afterward. Tonight there will be no dancing 'til morning....unless I decide to do that and go straight ...

... and salad. the salad had weird gross dressing on it but the fries were super! we then started the 2 hour trip back to kigali..i started reading the book A thousand splendid suns and it is so good! on the way we stopped at a genocide memorial. they are ...

... terraced hills. Regardless it is always a bit thrill and always puts a smile on my face when I arrive in a new country. Kigali looked like an interesting place, perched upon a hill with greenery all around. After booking into the Hotel Gloria I ...

... to have had this experience.  I am also extremely proud of myself.  I navigated my way through three different countries, hotels, currencies, and borders (well, with the help of one other).  I braved the rapids of the Nile.  I faced ...

... the mountainous winding hills.  Due to the great road conditions and lack of traffic, we arrive in the Capitol – Kigali at a reasonable time.  A bustling and dirty City we find accommodation and go walk the central area.  Without too ...

After about an hour or two of haggling with the proprietors of two different hotels, we ended up in a really upscale hotel, especially for the area.  We're thrilled to have a place to wash up and lay our heads down, but first, we have to stay awake ...