Rwanda Vacations, Rwanda Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

After several months of procrastination, I am finally uploading some video I took while visiting the Silverback gorillas in the volcano mountains of Rwanda and the Congo. The videos begin at the entrance where we met our guide (first video is just an introduction of our small group). It also includes some video along the way of a waterfall and the valley below where Ruhengeri is located. The last video taken of a mother and her one month old baby captures the sound of the baby ...

Although the volunteer work in and around Ruhengeri was my first priority, I still had time to be a tourist.  And part of being a tourist, of course, is buying the postcards to send out to friends and family.  Ruhengeri, however, is not geared towards the tourist…and it proved to be “a needle in a haystack” mission.  After a week of searching, we finally found some from one of the sellers in the open-air market.  The market’s biggest commodities were clothes, produ...

 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 commentators. There was no ethnic war, there was a civil war, but genocide happened and International response was to look the other way. About gorillas, it was greeaaat!!!!!! You cannot imagine how was the...

  I went travelling around Lake Victoria in East Africa one main site on this tour would be to see gorillas in Rwanda. My knowledge of the country before hand was very limited - basically I knew it used to be a Belgian colony in the old days but mainly what I knew was about the genocide in the mid 90th. This is also what everybody else knows about the country, hence most my friends thought going there were slightly mad. But that kind of details never stops me from going anywher...