Volcano Park Rwanda

We leave Kigali at 0900 for the Northern province and Volcano park, which is famous for gorillas. We will not even try to see them as that would cost $12,000!. So we plan to chill after the hectic of the trip so far. Fun fact for gorilla watchers, you need a negative covid pcr test done locally.

We plan to do some walks in the lutious tropical forest.

The journey here is over high mountain roads that are higher than 2000m. There is a lot of activity along the road with goods such as sweet potatoes, bananas, coconut, and much more moving up and down on bycles. The bikes are carrying upwards of 100kg, and many need 2 or 3 people to push uphill. I ask the driver, they must have good brakes for downhill." No, he says they don't. They use their feet!

I ask the driver why there is not a co-op approach to have a shared van. He says it exists, but the vast majority of transport from farms is still by bicycle.Read more