Tips you must know before Traveling to Rwanda

You have been planning a trip to Africa, and Rwanda comes on top of your list. A small, landlocked country located in East Africa, is known as land of Thousands hills because of its mountains.

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Common Kinyarwanda Words you must  know

Muraho: hello, Hi

Amakuru: How are you?

Witwa nde? What is your name?

Fine, good: Byiza, sawa

Bye Bye, Urabeho

See you: Turabonana

People and culture

Rwanda has a rich tradition of celebrations involving music and dance. Music and dance plays an important role in the traditional of Rwandan people. If there is one place in the world where all people share common culture, is Rwanda. Kinyarwanda is Spoken language in all over the country but French and English are both main useful languages, and Swahili is mostly used by citizens.

Where to stay:

Rwanda’s hospitality industry is growing rapidly and accommodation in Rwanda varies quite dramatically and the range is limited from small, mid-range to luxury. Guest houses are the popular and cheap accommodation in all towns of the country. There have been a lot of improvements in hotel options in the past years and several international hotel chains such as Marriott and Radisson had opened in Kigali and others are expecting to establish in the coming years. Wherever you choose to stay, know that Rwanda has been listed as the safest counties in Africa and daily activities during day and night are the same, except that the night is quiet.

Where to visit:

Rwanda is breath-taking unforgettable place where culture, adventure and conservation

intersect. The country has been listed as; 3rd greenest country in the word, one of the safest country in the world and Kigali, capital city as cleanest city in Africa. Rwanda has 3 mains National Parks; Akagera National Park, Volcanoes national Park and Nyungwe National Park, but Volcanoes national park is the highly visited because of gorillas trekking. Hotel des Mille Collines is the place where your trip in Rwanda should start. Just take a cup of coffee around the pool bar then you will be engaged in Hotel Rwanda, a historical drama film talking about 1994 genocide of Rwanda. After the cup of coffee, take a next steep to Kigali Genocide Memorial, you will really see what happened in 1994 genocide of Rwanda. After all these memories, keep enjoying the land of thousand hills.

Transport:

Rwanda is landlocked country located in East Africa. Transport by roads is main transport done in the country. The country is connecting with others neighbors countries by paved roads and the country’s districts and towns are also connected by side roads. Kigali, the capital city has the main bus station called Nyabugogo, is the station where coaches departures at every single moment from Kigali to the region of East Africa and also to the rest of the county. The form of public transport within Rwanda is; the shared taxi, known as bus,Private Taxi and Taxi motor (motor cycles ) known locally simply as moto. If you plan to drive in Rwanda,know that traffic moves on the right-hand side of the road.

Effective today, public transport (shared taxi) in Kigali city has free WI-FI and passengers are using cashless system to pay for transport fares. If you don’t have your own smart card for transport, better to choose another way of transport, because the drivers will not accept the money.

Telecommunication:

Rwanda has an excellent cell phone network covering almost the entire country. The common way of communication between governments, institutions, private companies and people is telephones, fixed lines and mobile phones being offered by telecom operators such as, Airtel Rwanda, Mobile telephone network (MTN) Rwanda and Tigo, are all covering the whole county network. In Addition those telecom operators offer 3G and 4G LTE and their accessories at lower cost compared to others East Africa countries. Most towns have several Internet cafes and computer centers where visitors can work on their projects either at home or at site work and also they can easily get communicate to their home people cheaply.

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