Lucas’s updates

Butare: Personally I was rather unimpressed with the National Museum. Bradt Guide even suggests it’s worth going far out of your way for to see it. Unless you have a specific interest in ethnology/anthropology I would seriously question this advice. The museum is nicely set up and there are some interesting exhibits, but it’s also …

Updates for Gitarama, Butare, Gikongoro, Nyungwe, Kibuye, Gisenyi, Ruhengeri

Gitarama -Artificial lake and rice fields near Genocide Memorial invite for a walk   -Nice Cathedral Butare -Omuganda Day: Shops opened very late around 1 or 2 pm and not as we thought at 11 or 12 am -National University Campus has  nice cafeteria (buffet for 1000 Rfr),and the main auditorium has Music and Football …

Cyangugu updates

 Thanks greatly for your excellent guide to Rwanda.  My travel companion and I, just back from Rwanda, had the luck to meet Paul Ruganintwali in the parking lot of the 1000 Hills hotel in Kigali, and he told us you are aware for your next edition of the awful state of the road between Gikongoro …

Nyungwe updates

Hi Phil, Some updates for your consideration: Uwinka Campsite 2S 28.696 29E 12.007 (The GPS reading in the Bradt is 2 minutes off) There is a new hotel in Gikongoro (on the road between Huye/Butare and Nyungwe), open since January 2009. Golden Monkey Hotel 2S 28.320' 29E 34.867' RWF 25000 for VIP double room including …