{"id":2644,"date":"2022-07-14T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:19:38","slug":"rwanda-what-a-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/rwanda-what-a-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, what a gem."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After 500m into Rwanda you can tell it’s not your usual poor African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the first village, things look strange and at the first small town it’s bloody obvious what’s wrong with 90% of Africa, it’s not post-colonial oppression or other woke crap it is just the citizen’s state of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To say Rwanda is poor is obvious but it is so neat, clean, and tidy it would embarrass Switzerland, the roads are perfect, streetlights, and even villages that look so poor that National Geographic would devote a whole issue to it have clean tidy brushed streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Crowded<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Uganda on the flat fertile plains the farmers lazily planted rag tag shaped field with crops planted randomly in clumps on badly prepared land, in Rwanda all the fields are neat and tidy, dry stone walls make up the paddocks and all the edges of the fields are tended into neat edges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most dirt-poor villages houses have cute neat privet hedges, that are cut with machetes, and as Milly pointed out I can’t get our hedge that neat with a hedge cutter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the first town we found a nice coffee shop with in house artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"milly<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The volcanos where covered in cloud, so we ended upo at the Diane fossey centre for apes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this is ‘gorillas in the mist’ woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Woman<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

a great place and it’s right next to the ‘one and only rwhanda gorillas nest’ @ \u00a322000 a night it is the most expensive hotel in Africa, we didn’t get in there \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we then traveled to the Congo-Nile trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"congo<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

to lake Kivu down a very narrow track to a location I wasn’t sure we would fit..Because the lane goes through a school and we had to fit under a walkway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"rwanda<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

but it was worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"rwanda<\/a>
the local bus service passed by twice a day, twice more than the buses at Betchton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"rwanda<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"rwanda<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Boat<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Night<\/a>
movie night, James Bond on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"morning<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that night we wondered if we should stay here for the restof the trip but we had to move on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in Kitale the capital, we found many things to amuse us again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Truck<\/a>
circus workers practising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"overloaded<\/a>
Just one more bag will be OK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"children<\/a>
Rwanda is a big surprise on every corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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