Novotel Bujumbura

... On the way in, I asked the driver about the situation in the country. "Everything is calm" he assured me. "No rockets falling on Bujumbura?" I asked. "You were here when that was happening?" he asked with a big grin. "No there is no problem now" he went ...

... nights Jesus said He would be in the heart of the earth.   The air conditioning is kept barely functioning during the day at the Novotel, and the windows won't open, so it warmed up quite a bit in the room during the hours that we talked. I was wet ...

... there last week, but it is over now, and everyone is waiting for your visit."   "I heard there was shelling in Bujumbura?" "Only a little, last week, it's over now. There is no problem. Everyone is waiting for your visit, tomorrow."   As ...

... ;t be any problems moving around. They drove me to the Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika, on the outskirts of Bujumbura. I had tried to reserve the Novotel, in the center of town, as on previous visits, but it had disappeared from the travel and hotel ...

... some aid workers had been murdered recently in Burundi, and so I had told them earlier via e-mail that my traveling outside Bujumbura was conditional on a reasonable risk assessment. They had written back to say "we don't have anything to worry about ...

... of which Bujumbura is built. The Gustave in the zoo is not the real Gustave. There was a man-eating croc that lived near Bujumbura, around where the Rusizi River, which links Bukavu and Lake Kivu, with Lake Tanganyika connects with the latter. His name is ...