Tag: Musanze /Rwanda/
altitude: 1,850 m/6,070 ft
estimated population: 90,000
If you are visiting Volcanoes National Park and prefer more affordable urban environments, Musanze (formerly known as Ruhengeri) should be your choice. This is the capital city of the Gorilla Highlands region, a tidy town surrounded by volcanoes and blessed with a remarkable cave system.
It offers accommodation solutions for all budgets, good eating, pleasant coffee shops and plentiful banks. Kinigi village (northwest of the town, 12km/7.5mi) features the park HQ, and many more lodges.
Our Stories:
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Unpacking the Region, Illuminating the World
Quarterly newsletter for Gorilla Highlands lovers The Morrises are our most recent guests — an American family living in Moshi, Tanzania, where Wade teaches at the United World College East Africa. These colleges bring students from different countries together to promote peace and sustainability (much like the Illumineers pitched at the end of this newsletter).…
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Welcome to Our Home
Do you even know where we live?! This June we moved into a house in Musanze’s Kizungu area. It’s a spacious place that blends family life with the demands of Gorilla Highlands Experts work. The building has five rooms, a large kitchen, and an even bigger living and dining area, its walls decorated with images captured by Marcus…
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Judges From Dubai Decide … Beetroot for the Win!
Brigitte Ishimwe and Justine Mukandayisenga have emerged as the champions of the 2024 cohort of GHE Youth Spaces! Their Beet-Nourish Creation business most impressed our judges from Omnicom Media Group (MENA) — in the photo they are posing with the company CEO, Elda Choucair. You might notice that Elda’s attire is a bit unusual for…
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Shattered Expectations
Anjni and Kalpa’s expectations were shattered within 24 hours. Rwanda greeted them with a neat airport, helpful and friendly officials, smooth roads, cleanliness, and no hassle whatsoever. Even people’s traditional attire wasn’t far from their own Indian heritage! The sisters live in Australia and America but they were born in Kenya, and they thought Rwanda would resemble their motherland much more…
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Tailored African Experiences: Six Greek Adventurers
Ready for a glimpse into the African journey of six Greek explorers? They came to our region to volunteer but thanks to early planning totally maxed their trip with a customised experience! Angelos, a nuclear physicist, reached out to us last year, already preparing for June 2024. He dreamt of an affordable tour for four,…
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And the Top Three Teams Are … (Youth Spaces Pitch Pictorial)
Before we proceed: congratulations to Rwanda on its Liberation Day! 30 years ago, the Rwandan Patriotic Front ended the genocide against the Tutsi, and thanks to this revolution we can now proudly take you to the town of Musanze in the north of the country, right under the Virunga volcanoes … … where the last…
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Do You Have a Cool Business or Project Idea That Is Environmentally Friendly?
The GHE Youth Spaces program is back! Supported by Omnicom Media Group (OMG), the second cohort will again take place in Musanze — between April and July 2024. The program’s mission is to give the youth practical skills that lead to personal development, civic engagement and regional peacebuilding in the transboundary region shared by Rwanda,…
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The Complete Package (Almost There)
Focus is key, they say. We were advised against adding something new to our already exciting travel offerings — but now that food experiences in Kigali, Musanze, Kisoro and at Lake Bunyonyi grace our menu, it simply feels right! Think about it. We’re the brains behind Gorilla Highlands Silverchef, right? And isn’t one of our directors…
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First Time to Leave Rwanda, First Time to Canoe & Camp
The training period of the four candidates for our office staff ended with an adventure in Uganda, joining our guest Alex from Washington on three days of activities. Once we crossed the border, the first experience was a coffee tour, where we learned what it is like to work at a coffee farm. We all…
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