After a pleasant enough stay at the Kinigi Guest House we set off for Lake Kivu on Saturday 25 July.
Running along the Congolese border for 90km, the 2,370km² Lake Kivu is one of a string of ‘inland seas’ that submerge much of the Albertine Rift floor as it runs southward from the Sudan to Zambia. Continue reading
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Mzungu: Swahili for “white/European person” (courtesy Wikipedia)
We are still amazed at what a beautiful country Rwanda is with all its mountains. More than a thousand hills, I’m sure. It is a pleasure to drive on the beautiful, tarred roads, albeit slowly. There are people and bicycles everywhere, and taxis veering past you at hair-raising speeds. It seems as though every centimetre space are in use. The mountains have all been contoured, manually, and the crops abound. Rice, corn, wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, chrysanthemum and more. Continue reading
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Rwanda is a land-locked country in Central Africa. Also known as the “Land of a Thousand Hills”, Rwanda has five volcanoes, 23 lakes and numerous rivers. The country lies 1 270 km west of the Indian Ocean and 2 000 km east of the Atlantic – literally in the heart of Africa.
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