Day 173 – 175: Kibondo to Kigoma
We set an alarm for 07:00 and managed to actually get up and take another shower. Just as we were about to leave the room a staff member came to ask us to move the [...]
Day 172: Kigali, Rwanda to Kibondo, Tanzania
We wanted to leave as early as 08:00, but the overland truck was going nowhere. Most of the passengers were still having breakfast and lounging around, at least their tents were already packed up. By [...]
Day 171: Kibuye back to Kigali
We got woken by splashing fluid close to our car. We again had visions of people dousing us in fuel and setting us alight. Caro looked out the window and saw that someone was washing [...]
Day 169 – 170: KCCEM to Kibuye via Nyungwe forest
We set an alarm for 06:30 with the idea of leaving by 07:00 to be at Uwinka at 08:00. According to the receptionist at KCCEM most hikes leave at 08:00 from Uwinka which was only [...]
Day 168: Kigali to KCCEM via Butare
Caro had to go to the bar again after midnight to tell people to keep quiet. They turned the music down a bit, but some security guard kept on watching music videos and moving tables [...]
Day 165 – 167: Gisenyi to Kigali
We got awoken by the traffic again and got up for breakfast in the main house. We wanted to get to Kigali today and decided to take the main road back to Ruhengeri and then [...]
Day 163 – 164: Volcanoes NP to Lake Kivu
We got up around 09:00 and had coffee in the car park between the two vehicles. We sat and chatted further with Helen and Jens until basically 12:00. Around 10:00 Caro and Sekar made egg [...]
Day 162: Lake Bunyonyi to Rwanda
We managed to leave earlier than usual at 09:48, but since we were heading to Rwanda which is only GMT +2 we told ourselves that we actually left at 08:48, almost a record. We took [...]
Day 159 – 161: Ruhija to Lake Bunyonyi
Keeping to our new pattern we only left at 11:00 again. The first 28km was on a gravel road through the rest of the forest and took 83 minutes. The road got very dusty towards [...]