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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Borderline Adventure of the Man of Many Hats
Dear readers and watchers, Warm greetings from a simple man who does wear many hats… You have previously read about me as a founder in female clothes, learned about me as a lonely videographer and watched me as a dad deeply proud of the school his kiddos attend. Primarily, however, I will be your tour…
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Bella of Cyuza Island: Reaping the Fruits of Hard Work
The host of our online picnic on Lake Burera (see the video below) is Bélancille Twizerimana, and this is a little introduction to this amazing businesswoman, illustrated with Cyuza Island images … Bella is a former teacher and banker who entered the tourism industry through a bakery. Among other businesses, she runs two guest houses…
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Weekly Companion — Online Picnic in Musanze
It was a massive relief to watch the Zoom recording of our first Online Picnic at Virunga Valley Academy. Previously I had little idea about how the event would look to somebody who wasn’t with us in Musanze but was taking it in through a screen. And … the concept worked!The Picnic was more than…
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You Are NOT Allowed to Miss This
Aaaaaaaaand here we go: the first and the best monthly online Picnic is happening in Musanze this weekend! Time: Saturday, 27 February 2021, 4-6pm Rwandan time which is: 6-8am in San Francisco8-10am in Dallas9-11am in New York2-4pm in London3-5pm in Vienna5-7pm in Kampala Location: Virunga Valley Academy (VVA), Musanze — and your Zoom screens Hosts:…
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Weekly Companion — Let It Be Then?
This video has been uploaded to YouTube because countless night attempts using our private solution (Vimeo) haven’t worked out… But, on the other hand, this is also OK. Let’s have it on YouTube and publicly available then. It may not be an ideal representation of a video promoting GHE to the general audience (this version…
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Power Wellness: Never Underestimate Things You Haven’t Tried
Do you know that your life is a gift and that your feelings are valuable? Can you concentrate your heart and mind and take a weekend off, just for yourself? These are the essential requirements for Anina, an intuitive healer from the European Union, to help you find who you really are… Anina does not…
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Living to Eat: Digesting Our First Food Tour
“Do we eat to live — or do we live to eat?” we asked ourselves as we sat down at the veranda last Saturday. Awaiting lunch at the Five Volcanoes Boutique Hotel in Musanze, we were embarking on a daring new Gorilla Highlands chapter… Half a year after we began working on Local Experiences, here…
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Confessions: How an Anina Experience Changed My Life
It was two years after I won at Miss Tourism and I appeared to be doing pretty well. But the result had turned my life upside down… Yes, I had found my calling in the tourism business and was receiving invitations to beauty pageants from around the world — but emotionally, I was a mess.…
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Meet Best Chefs of Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo
There’s magic in the air … and intoxicating smells … as sudden clouds of smoke appear and then disperse above workstations. Perhaps even some droplets of sweat trickle down under their hats… Four gentlemen and one lady are fighting for the right to be called the region’s best. It’s the afternoon shift of the 2019…
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