On our way to Tanzania we had to spend another night back in Kigali as otherwise the journey would have been too much for one day. The traffic was back to normal as we drove in after the Saturday clean up as we left. We checked out a couple of hotels but decided to return to the same place as our last stay as they allowed us to park our truck in the compound at the rear of the hotel. This enabled us to prepare for our next leg, stock up the fridge and get the...

It rained heavily all night and our journey next day was 80k of mud road, passing through the villages where many of the inhabitants had no shoes and were ankle deep in mud. Again most of the children were dressed in rags and whilst a lot more reserved than their Ugandan counterparts they were a lot quicker to shout Muzungu, Muzungu (white person) whilst outstretching their hands for money!! As today was Sunday many people were dressed in thier 'Sunday best' to ...

The day we left Kigali was a Saturday andas we left the hotel we were told that the last Saturday in every month was cleaning day. The whole city was deserted, there was no traffic on the road whatsoever only groups of people sweeing the roads orweeding grassy areas either public places or in front of their homes. Mini buses and other public transport was being cleaned by the drivers and all businesses were closed whilst the premises were given the once over. We ...

We crossed the border into Rwanda quite easily and quickly noticed that the scenery was noticably different from that of Uganda in that instead of banana plantations it was now tea and coffee plantations with absolutely lush stunning scenery. We made our way to Kigali the capital and booked into Hotel des Mille Collines made famous from the film Hotel Rwanda which tells the harrowing story of the Genocide which took place in Rwanda in 1994. The Rwandan army and...