Where the journey started
25 мая 2023 г., Германия ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Office
Goodbye Europe, welcome Rwanda!
29 мая 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Huye Coffee Mountain, day 1
29 мая 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ⛅ 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 :)Читать далее
Getting part of the family
30 мая 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ 🌙 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 coffeeЧитать далее
From the seed to the cup
31 мая 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ 🌙 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 theЧитать далее
Deep diving
2 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
City that's hard to leave...
4 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 tryЧитать далее
Dry jobs and wet jobs
6 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 ofЧитать далее
Why is it called washing station?
7 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ 🌙 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 placeЧитать далее
Few days of the live of a tour guide
11 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 fromЧитать далее
It's all about people!
16 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 postЧитать далее
Let's go for a tea then
17 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ⛅ 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 rideЧитать далее
Rumble in the Jungle, part 1
18 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 -Читать далее
Follow that monkey!
19 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ⛅ 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 guideЧитать далее
Is the a lake? Is it a sea?
21 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 toЧитать далее
On the way to the North
23 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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,Читать далее
Musanze in the mist
23 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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. AndЧитать далее
Face to face with the gorilla
24 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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,Читать далее
Mud is the limit
25 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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.Читать далее
Second chance for the capital
28 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ⛅ 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 aЧитать далее
Looking for an invisible elephant
29 июня 2023 г., Руанда ⋅ ☁️ 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 huntingЧитать далее
Nairobbery? Maybe, but also fun city :)
2 июля 2023 г., Кения ⋅ ☁️ 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, regulatedЧитать далее
True Safari Experience
4 июля 2023 г., Кения ⋅ ⛅ 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,Читать далее
A casual walk with zebras
6 июля 2023 г., Кения ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Bike & hike in Hell's Gate
7 июля 2023 г., Кения ⋅ ☁️ 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 KenyaЧитать далее






















































































































































































































ПутешественникI’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]