Kigali Travel Blogs

This day was going to be spent mostly driving to Nyarubuye - close to the Tanzania border.  However, some of the faculty members had a conference to go to, so we switched the days around.  We will go to Nyarubuye on Sunday.  In the morning, we went to a crafts market.  It was …

 I was deeply marked by this trip, due to two facts: The genocide in 1994 and the gorillas. About the genocide, it is unbelievable the genocide that happened in Rwanda. In Spain, and I think in our western countries, the genocide was a "civil war" or "ethnic striftre"  by commentat…

  Scott and I stood in front of the Air Tanzania office at 5:00 a.m. eagerly awaiting the airport bus. At 7:30 we were told there was no bus. Two American girls who had recently arrived from Bombay joined us for the short taxi ride to the airport. We quickly got our boarding passes, cleared c…

Two weeks in amazing Africa - Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda overland!

Staying in Ruhegeri during a chuch election means a lot of drums playing all the time. But going out for the gorilla hike makes it unik. Then falling asleep New Years Eve in a African nightclub just ads a little twist to the whole day.

Kigali Memorial Centre - also known as the Genocide Museum is a must-go. At there, you can understand how this recent tragedy influenced the rwandans.

http://pink-lightning.blogspot.com "...So this time next week I'll be back in Munich. Strange feeling. Just now I started getting to know my way around and speak a couple of words of Kinyarwanda and am totally out of the flow from 'European' life... :-(Whats my conclusion? what have I learnt? What…

Here is a link to my blog about my travels in rwanda.  The link will take you to the last page (first post) of the trip, and you can click newer to move forward in time.http://tomicles.com/wordpress/category/travels/rwanda/page/5/

We were here for 30 days.  It was fun.  We slept in a terminal that had all the window blown out of it.  Everytime a C5 came in, it would shake the whole building.  Rick and I would ride out bikes all over the flightline catching ACFT.  We were even in Stars and Stripes.