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The street to Ntarama

My two day dose of depression

December 17th 2010
As we keep going the image of a peaceful farmland gets less blurry, less fuzzy as my ride strained up the hill. Could there be a worse feeling in travel? Sitting patiently behind some poor bloke busting his nuts cycling to get me to a site where a relative of his most likely was slaughtered to death… And all this for a dollar! Genocide will forever be part of tourism in Rwanda, heck that’s th ... read more
Africa » Rwanda » Ville de Kigali

Rwandan Flag In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more
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