After a year travelling in Africa, we have to sum up very positive. 35 thousand kilometres on harsh roads, we did not face any accident or major technical problem, not even one puncture. But we saw a lot of accidents, critical situations on the roads and experienced a lot of unusual moments! Have a look …
Instead of leaving Uganda in the north-east to go to Kenya, we had to travel down to the border with Rwanda, to pick up our drone from the border post. We had spent a couple of days at Lake Bunyonyi again and enjoyed the spectacular scenery, before we started our tour to Kenya with 3 …
Some infos from Rwanda for our fellow travellers: Border: we came from Tanzania, which was the best border up to now, with just one stop and everything straight forward. We left to Uganda over the small border at Cyanika, which went also without any problem, just that the Ugandan side confiscated our drone. When we …
When we arrived in the North of Rwanda, where a couple of volcanos along the border to DR Congo and Uganda are part of the Volcanos NP, we first saw nothing, as the clouds were hanging very low. But the next day, when we drove up to Kinigi to visit the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, …
At the Pfunda Tea Farm, in the north of Lake Kivu, we went on a tour to learn more about tea farming and production. The first part, was to visit the tea plantation of the Pfunda Cooperative. 2000 farmers have their farms in this area and sell their harvest to the Pfunda Tea Factory, which …
In the west of Rwanda we had reached Lake Kivu, which has a lovely coast with green hills rising up from the deep lake, which keeps a dangerous secret in its depth. The beautiful lake attracts people with money, who build houses, lodges and resorts, which are in such big contrast to the life of …
In the south west of Rwanda lies one of the few remains of the natural rain forest, which covered once a big part of the mountain ranges of Rwanda, before the continuously growth in population made it necessary to change everything into farm land. Before the border to the national park, maiz, banana, cassava, eucalyptus …
Driving up and down the thousand hills of Rwanda, we came to Nyanza, where the King of Rwanda had his palace until 1962. Here you can see the reconstructed traditional huts and the modern palace. We got a guide, which was dressed in an umushanana, the silky, flowing traditional dress of Rwanda. We were really …
We reached Kigali on a Sunday, hoping for less traffic and immediately got stuck when the roads were blocked for a bicycle race. When we reached the centre, a policeman made us turn around, as he deemed our car too big – there was a truck ban for this part of town. We made a …
After our last stop in Tanzania at Lake Victoria, we drove east, to get to the border of Rwanda. The border was a “one stop border”, with the office building on the Rwanda side to get all the formalities done. Surprisingly, there were not many trucks waiting at that border. For some reason, somebody had …
