Bujumbura
The city looks a lot more pleasant from here than it is at street level
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Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only one hundred days in office. Since then, some 200,000 Burundians have perished in widespread, often intense ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions. ... [read more]
Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only one hundred days in office. Since then, some 200,000 Burundians have perished in widespread, often intense ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions. ... [read more] Blog: Cakes and Beaches
Date: February 2nd 2007
I don't know how many reasons you need to visit a country. For Burundi I had two. See the title of this blog to discover the two reasons. Maybe you could add a third, the fact that I didn't know anyone else who had been here, but it is principally cakes and beaches that led me to board an overcrowded minibus for the arduous journey south from Rwanda. Cakes: Burundi is the most Francophone ... read more
Date: February 2nd 2007
I don't know how many reasons you need to visit a country. For Burundi I had two. See the title of this blog to discover the two reasons. Maybe you could add a third, the fact that I didn't know anyone else who had been here, but it is principally cakes and beaches that led me to board an overcrowded minibus for the arduous journey south from Rwanda. Cakes: Burundi is the most Francophone ... read more
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More of a highlights package than a proper journal. Hopefully it will be more readable than "I went here it was ace, then I went there it was mega, then I did this it was cool, etc".
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