Where the journey started
25. Mai 2023 in Deutschland ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Office
Goodbye Europe, welcome Rwanda!
29. Mai 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Huye Coffee Mountain, day 1
29. Mai 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ⛅ 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 :)Weiterlesen
Getting part of the family
30. Mai 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ 🌙 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 coffeeWeiterlesen
From the seed to the cup
31. Mai 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ 🌙 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 theWeiterlesen
Deep diving
2. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 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 theWeiterlesen
City that's hard to leave...
4. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 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 tryWeiterlesen
Dry jobs and wet jobs
6. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 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 ofWeiterlesen
Why is it called washing station?
7. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ 🌙 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 placeWeiterlesen
Few days of the live of a tour guide
11. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 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 fromWeiterlesen
It's all about people!
16. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
My time in Huye is slowly going to an end. Everything that I experienced here, all upd and downs, happy and sad stories will probably find a place in some bigger piece of writing.
But in the last postWeiterlesen
Let's go for a tea then
17. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Finally departed! As sad as the last goodbye to all the amazing people that I had an honor to work with, I couldn't wait to start the "traveling part" of the trip. First stop was only 2h bis rideWeiterlesen
Rumble in the Jungle, part 1
18. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
The day started with a very scenic but safe, 50 mom long motobike ride through the National Park, with a couple of military checkpoints and animals on the way. Then I went to discover Imbaraga Trail -Weiterlesen
Follow that monkey!
19. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Early morning in Uwinka station and first disappointing message - "Colobus monkeys are very far, on the hard trail, maybe do something else". But then, after me insisting to go and other guideWeiterlesen
Is the a lake? Is it a sea?
21. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
A few hours and 2 buses after leaving Kitabi, I got out in a totally different climate zone. It's hard to believe in the first moment - I'm still in Rwanda, an east African country without access toWeiterlesen
On the way to the North
23. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Not so much to write this time - to split a very tiring trip to the north I decided to have a stop in Gysenyi, another town on the coast. Way more restaurants and easy nicer beach, but apart of that,Weiterlesen
Musanze in the mist
23. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
After a very pleasant and short drive I arrived at the Northern Province and its capital Musanze. A very vibrant city, with a lot of traffic, feeling like a good balance between Kigali and Huye. AndWeiterlesen
Face to face with the gorilla
24. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
The day has come - 10 years after seeing these marvelous beings in Bwindi Forest in Uganda, again I got the chance to track Mountain Gorillas in their natural environment. As everything in Rwanda,Weiterlesen
Mud is the limit
25. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Mustanze is definitely hiking location - so why not to continue with hiking one of the dormant Volcanos after the gorillas? Today's target was Mount Bisoke, 3711 m high, a serious mountain to climb.Weiterlesen
Second chance for the capital
28. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
When did it happen, already month in Rwanda? The last few days I decided to stay in Kigali , first exploring the city more and then going for an intense day trip to Akagera NP.
To give this city aWeiterlesen
Looking for an invisible elephant
29. Juni 2023 in Ruanda ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Last chance to explore rwandan nature before I move to Kenya, in the famous Akagera National Park. One of the biggest national parks in Africa, unfortunately almost destroyed due to extensive huntingWeiterlesen
Nairobbery? Maybe, but also fun city :)
2. Juli 2023 in Kenia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Arrived to Kenya! Second country on my way and even if I still stay in East Africa, the differences between Kigali and Nairobi are huge. I have to say goodbye to perfectly clean streets, regulatedWeiterlesen
True Safari Experience
4. Juli 2023 in Kenia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
One picture is worth 1000 words they say - if so, then there is no need to write anything about Massai Mara. I decided to have a budget trip here, but even so I could see plenty of animals every day,Weiterlesen
A casual walk with zebras
6. Juli 2023 in Kenia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Bike & hike in Hell's Gate
7. Juli 2023 in Kenia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
After the first day in Naivasha and being too tired to even write a word beside the pictures yesterday, today more content :) The plan of the day was to explore Hells Gate NP, the only park in KenyaWeiterlesen






















































































































































































































ReisenderI’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]