Novotel Kigali

... I wanted to see. It is built right on the lakeshore, has reasonably furnished rooms and is slightly less expensive than the Novotel, so I may well try it next time. It's not as conveniently, but very pleasantly located.  After a look around the ...

... As we left Serengetti NP we could easily see how the cultivated farmland comes right to the edge of the park.  Flying to Kigali was very beautiful.  Green hills with houses and farms as far as you could see.  A lone swimming pool was ...

... day hiking, no service at that hotel, then transferred last night to the hotel I am at now, at the breakfast table writing in Kigali. We leave in about 30 minutes to sight see before our 1:30 flight to Nairobi. Then I am immediately hopping on a flight ...

... ), taking a picture to prove we were there, and returning to Nakumatt for the next question. Our first question was the one about Novotel. We decided the best way to get there was by moto. They are a really common way of getting around Kigali – ...

... -booked at the Novotel which was over our budget but worth it. When we got there it was like checking into the Montreal Novotel because the lobby was overrun with a Montreal film crew that was shooting "Shake Hands with the Devil". Also because French ...

... hour class we promptly left for an afternoon at the U.S. Embassy. We walked up the hill past the roundabout to catch public buses to Novotel on the other side of town. I had lunch there (a yummy ham and cheese sandwich) and then we all walked quite a ...

... And they don't allow plastic bags anywhere....It truly is a complete contrast to the history we have read about. Our hotel is the Novotel, a little more swish that what I'm used to but nice. We take a trip to the Genocide Museum in the afternoon. I ...

... views of the gorillas.  This family was very lazy and most of the time they were naping.  The young ones were playing and rolling around.  After we completed our gorilla viewing we hiked down and then drove to Kigali, arriving about ...

... thing happened during dinner. I was pecked by accident by one of the beautiful crowned cranes that live in the gardens of the Novotel. One of them became interested when my beef brochettes and french fries arrived. He hung around like he wanted a handout. ...

... 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 ...

At my early breakfast this morning the two nearly-tame crowned cranes that live in the garden of the Novotel walked through the dining area looking for treats. I caught one with my camera. They are exquisitely beautiful birds. Nathan and Moïse ...

... 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 databases. It’s ...