Rwanda: with Gorilla tracking in the DRC

Rwanda travel guide. Travel and holiday advice features Kigali accommodation and highlights, gorilla tracking and wildlife. Also includes guides, tour operators, itineraries, canoe excursions, national parks such as Volcanoes, Nyungwe, Akagera, Gishwati-Mukura and Virunga, Lake Kivu, Kigali Genocide Memorial, DRC excursions, political history.

Now into its eighth edition and written by Philip Briggs, the world's leading author of African guidebooks, Bradt's Rwanda has been the go-to guide for visitors to the 'Land of a Thousand Hills' for more than 20 years. Still the only standalone guide in English to this increasingly popular destination, it remains in a class of its own for in-depth information. With fresh research into developments across the country, Bradt's Rwanda includes expanded coverage of Gishwati-Mukura National Park, which opened to tourism in 2021, and up-to-date details of rapidly modernising Kigali, considered Africa's cleanest city. Rwanda continues to change and develop at an unprecedented pace no country has a higher proportion of female parliamentarians and there's hardly a more accessible part of Africa. It's no less intriguing for the convenience, however, and Rwanda's superlative natural attractions constantly improve, with growing animal populations, as in Akagera National Park, where Africa's Big Five (rhino, lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo) can be seen. This new edition also includes extensive maps and natural history information, while details of kayak and canoe excursions on Lake Kivu and the Mukungwa River complement advice about staying on tea plantations at Sorwathe or Gisovu. It contains everything you need to know about tracking mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park (workplace of primatologist Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist fame) and chimpanzees in Nyungwe National Park (East Africa's largest surviving montane forest, harbouring numerous endemic birds and primates) and Gishwati-Mukura (which is also the only location for the rare golden monkey outside the Virunga mountains). Also covered are Nyanza, with its hilltop Rukari King's Palace Museum, and the Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda, the top cultural site in Butare (Huye). A chapter on nearby cities and national parks provides key necessary information to take an excursion into neighbouring DRC, including how to see lowland gorillas. As not only the most in-depth guide available in English, but also the guide with the longest history in the country itself, Bradt's Rwanda is the indispensable companion for visitors, including wildlife enthusiasts and Africa aficionados.

'The excellent Bradt Guide to Rwanda includes detailed sections on the national parks.' The Sunday Telegraph 'Rwanda is excellent; it captures the mood of the place and gives a positive and accurate account of a fantastic country.' Art of Travel 'This guide . gives the prospective visitor real and detailed insights into the country, its people, history, flora and fauna. Even if you end up never going to Rwanda, you will feel you know the place quite intimately by the time you get to the final page.' Wildside 'At last, a well-written and dedicated guide to Rwanda.' Footprints 'Rwanda is an excellent book that I have recommended to all the visitors who come to Rwanda. This guide presents a clear and balanced overview of events in Rwanda's recent past.The book also describes the charm and attraction that make this country so different.' Dr Annette Lanjouw, Director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme 'Recommended reading' Conde Nast Traveller magazine 'Bradt's Rwanda is the best guidebook on the region.' Travel Africa

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Philip Briggs (philipbriggs.com) has been exploring the highways, byways and backwaters of Africa since 1986, when he spent several months backpacking on a shoestring from Nairobi to Cape Town. He is the world's leading author of guidebooks to African countries, with more than 30 years' experience. During the 1990s, he wrote a series of pioneering Bradt travel guides to countries that were then – and in some cases still are – otherwise practically uncharted by the travel industry. These include the first dedicated guidebooks to Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Ghana, new editions of which have been published regularly ever since. He has written many articles about Rwanda, contributed to two national tourist brochures, and worked on a government tourist database. His other Bradt guides cover Somaliland, Suriname, The Gambia, Sri Lanka, East African wildlife and safaris. When not travelling, he lives in the sleepy South African village of Wilderness.

Janice Booth's career has included stage management, archaeology, compiling puzzle magazines, travelling, editing Bradt guides and co-writing Bradt guides to south and east Devon. She has driven Land Rovers in Timbuktu, walked with water-buffalo in Tamil Nadu, and waded in the breakers of Namibia's Skeleton Coast. She initiated and co-wrote the first edition of Bradt's Rwanda, and has been co-authored or otherwise contributed to several editions since. An immense fan of the country, she has also lectured and written about the country – and led tours there.

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Introduction

PART ONE GENERAL INFORMATION

Chapter 1 Background Information

Geography, Natural history and conservation, History, People, Language, Religion, Education, Culture

Chapter 2 Practical Information

When to visit, Tourist information and services, Tour operators and travel agents, Red tape, Embassies and consulates, Getting there and away, Health, Safety, What to take, Money, Budgeting,

Getting around, Accommodation, Eating and drinking, Public holidays and events, Shopping, Media and communications, Cultural etiquette, Becoming involved

PART TWO THE GUIDE

Chapter 3 Kigali

History, Getting there and away, Getting around, Tourist information, Tour operators, Where to stay, Where to eat and drink, Nightlife, Arts and entertainment, Sports, Shopping, Other practicalities, What to see and do

Chapter 4 Around Kigali

Bugesera District , Gitarama (Muhanga), Kabgayi and surrounds, The highlands north of Kigali,

Lake Muhazi

Chapter 5 Akagera National Park

History, Natural history, Getting there and away, Park fees, Where to stay and eat, Activities

Chapter 6 Ruhengeri (Musanze), Kinigi and the Virunga Foothills

Getting there and away, Where to stay, Where to eat and drink, Useful information, What to see and do

Chapter 7 Volcanoes National Park

Wildlife, History, conservation and ecotourism, Getting there and away, Where to stay and eat,

Gorilla tracking, Golden monkey tracking, Other hikes and activities

Chapter 8 The Lake Kivu Belt and Congo Nile Trail

Gisenyi (Rubavu) and Rubona, Gishwati-Mukura National Park, Kivu Belt from Rubona to Kibuye, Kibuye (Karongi), Kivu Belt from Kibuye to Cyangugu, Cyangugu (Rusizi)

Chapter 9 Nyungwe National Park

Orientation, Park fees, Natural history, Getting there and away, Where to stay and eat, Trails and activities

Chapter 10 Nyanza, Butare (Huye) and the Heritage Corridor

Nyanza, Butare (Huye)

Chapter 11 Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega National Parks (Eastern DRC)

Entrance and border formalities, Security, Goma, Virunga National Park, Bukavu, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Idjwi Island

Appendix 1 Language

Appendix 2 Further Information

Index