AlemaniaBerlinFriedrichsberg52°30’59” N 13°27’43” E
25 de mayo de 2023, Alemania ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
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RuandaKigali ProvinceRwimbogoKigali International Aiport1°57’43” S 30°8’14” E
29 de mayo de 2023, Ruanda ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
RuandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’48” S 29°41’32” E
29 de mayo de 2023, 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 :)Leer más
RuandaSouthern ProvinceButareButare Airport2°35’48” S 29°44’51” E
30 de mayo de 2023, 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 coffeeLeer más
RuandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’46” S 29°41’31” E
31 de mayo de 2023, 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 theLeer más
RuandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’48” S 29°41’32” E
2 de junio de 2023, 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 theLeer más
RuandaKigali ProvinceKiyovuKigaliUniversity Teaching Hospital of Kigali1°56’39” S 30°3’45” E
4 de junio de 2023, 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 tryLeer más
RuandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’48” S 29°41’32” E
6 de junio de 2023, 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 ofLeer más
RuandaSouthern ProvinceSovuGako2°32’47” S 29°41’33” E
7 de junio de 2023, 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 placeLeer más
RuandaSouthern ProvinceButareButare Airport2°35’48” S 29°44’51” E
11 de junio de 2023, 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 fromLeer más
Viajero 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]