Where the journey started
2023年5月25日, ドイツ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Office
Goodbye Europe, welcome Rwanda!
2023年5月29日, ルワンダ ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Huye Coffee Mountain, day 1
2023年5月29日, ルワンダ ⋅ ⛅ 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 :)もっと詳しく
Getting part of the family
2023年5月30日, ルワンダ ⋅ 🌙 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 coffeeもっと詳しく
From the seed to the cup
2023年5月31日, ルワンダ ⋅ 🌙 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 theもっと詳しく
Deep diving
2023年6月2日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 theもっと詳しく
City that's hard to leave...
2023年6月4日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 tryもっと詳しく
Dry jobs and wet jobs
2023年6月6日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 ofもっと詳しく
Why is it called washing station?
2023年6月7日, ルワンダ ⋅ 🌙 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 placeもっと詳しく
Few days of the live of a tour guide
2023年6月11日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 fromもっと詳しく
It's all about people!
2023年6月16日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 postもっと詳しく
Let's go for a tea then
2023年6月17日, ルワンダ ⋅ ⛅ 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 rideもっと詳しく
Rumble in the Jungle, part 1
2023年6月18日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 -もっと詳しく
Follow that monkey!
2023年6月19日, ルワンダ ⋅ ⛅ 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 guideもっと詳しく
Is the a lake? Is it a sea?
2023年6月21日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 toもっと詳しく
On the way to the North
2023年6月23日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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,もっと詳しく
Musanze in the mist
2023年6月23日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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. Andもっと詳しく
Face to face with the gorilla
2023年6月24日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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,もっと詳しく
Mud is the limit
2023年6月25日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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.もっと詳しく
Second chance for the capital
2023年6月28日, ルワンダ ⋅ ⛅ 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 aもっと詳しく
Looking for an invisible elephant
2023年6月29日, ルワンダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 huntingもっと詳しく
Nairobbery? Maybe, but also fun city :)
2023年7月2日, ケニア ⋅ ☁️ 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, regulatedもっと詳しく
True Safari Experience
2023年7月4日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 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,もっと詳しく
A casual walk with zebras
2023年7月6日, ケニア ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Bike & hike in Hell's Gate
2023年7月7日, ケニア ⋅ ☁️ 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 Kenyaもっと詳しく






















































































































































































































旅行者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]