Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Rwanda
Two wet seasons, two dry ones, and one week in April when the whole country is doing something other than receiving visitors.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Rwanda: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Akagera National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Central Africa's largest protected wetland, and the best documented example in the region of a park being deliberately put back together.
Heritage
The King's Palace at Nyanza: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A reconstructed royal residence at the old capital of a court that moved, and a herd of cattle whose keepers still sing to them.
Heritage
Volcanoes National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Five volcanoes, the mountain gorillas, and a cave system inside the park that carries a health warning most itineraries omit.
Heritage
Nyungwe National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
One of Africa's great montane rainforests, protected since 1933, with a lit international highway running through the middle of it.
Heritage
Memorial Sites of the Genocide: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Four places where the genocide against the Tutsi was carried out, inscribed together, and what a visitor owes them on arrival.
Destination
Rwanda
Nyungwe’s rainforest, primates at altitude, and four genocide memorial sites now on the World Heritage List: Rwanda asks to be understood, not only visited.