Kivu Catamaran

The fishing boats we saw on Lake Kivu look like two or three dugout canoes strapped together along the length of a couple eucalyptus poles. From the front and back of each canoe, additional poles arc out over the water, presumably to hold fishing nets. We don’t have any idea how the actual fishing process works, but the boats were are pretty.

Muganero Market Day

June 7th 2006
Lake Kivu sits on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). It is surrounded by deliciously green hills, every last inch of which is cultivated with sorghum, maize, beans, potatoes, tea, bananas, bananas, and more bananas. The soaring mountains of Volcanoes National Park, and their famous inhabitants, the mountain gorillas, watch over the lake from the north. Count ... read more

Africa » Rwanda

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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