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- May 25, 2023, 9:16am
- ☀️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 54 m
GermanyBerlinFriedrichsberg52°30’59” N 13°27’43” E
Where the journey started
May 25, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Office
GermanyBerlinFriedrichsberg52°30’59” N 13°27’43” E May 25, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Office
RwandaKigaliRwimbogoKigali International Aiport1°57’43” S 30°8’14” E
May 29, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
RwandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’48” S 29°41’32” E
May 29, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Starting day with a long trip to the southern border of Rwanda, to the small town Huye, where I'm going to spend next 3 weeks. All formalities done, first and last day of being a tourist here :)Read more
RwandaSouthern ProvinceButareButare Airport2°35’48” S 29°44’51” E
May 30, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
The official name of the company I have an honor to stary with is "Huye Mountain Coffee, Mr. David and family". The family means here whole team working on the coffee, from harvesters to coffeeRead more
RwandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’46” S 29°41’31” E
May 31, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Highest chance to get my hands dirty - finally I got a chance to work with sorting the cherries, a very crucial part of the process to get high quality speciality coffee. "Strange Muzungu" was theRead more
RwandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’48” S 29°41’32” E
June 2, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Today was the longest Friday I had since a while, an 11h long day full of new experiences. New stages of the coffee production : floating and washing (workers freaked out seeing me at 7.30 in theRead more
RwandaKigaliKiyovuKigaliUniversity Teaching Hospital of Kigali1°56’39” S 30°3’45” E
June 4, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
... but not for the reasons you can think of ;) Weekend trip to the capital sounded very nice in theory and it's something what most of the students are doing on a weekly basis, so I wanted to tryRead more
RwandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’48” S 29°41’32” E
June 6, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Days full of different jobs: dry ones ( roasting, packaging and dealing coffee for the local market) and very wet ones (depulping coffee cherries and placing them in the fermentation tanks). Lesson ofRead more
RwandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’47” S 29°41’33” E
June 7, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
After multiple corrections finally I have enough material to answer a very common mistake: no, I'm neither working on the coffee plantation nor the coffee farm. It's a washing station, so the placeRead more
RwandaSouthern ProvinceButareButare Airport2°35’48” S 29°44’51” E
June 11, 2023 in Rwanda ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Finally the time has come, we started to get more and more tourists, one of the last activities I haven't yet taken part in. And having a blast, sharing the knowledge and experience with people fromRead more
Traveler I’ll miss you; but I’m also very happy for you
Enjoy Señor Plotka, and send me tarantula pictures please. [Hector]
Don’t drink too much coffee ☀️ [Elsa]