We woke today and had a breakfast of tea (our stomaches were still a little sketchie-if you know what I mean). We walked to the town center with our backpacks and purchased a ticket for the bus Gisenyi (on the northern tip of Lake Kivu).The bus ride was only 1:15 hours but boy it seemed longer. A kid barfed one row behind Kuntz, and we found that Rwandans don't like to open bus windows... can anyone say hot sweats!? Too bad because the scenery in the hills is really amazing, not like Dome dog amazing but like sunrise amazing...
We arrived in Gisenyi around 10:30 a.m. and walked around for awhile before discovering paradise...the Paradise Guesthouse that is. The PGH is located in the Rumona district. It is right on Lake Kivu and really feels like Hawaii (a great breeze off the lake, sand, huts, etc..).
After lunch (you all need to know one thing about Rwanda--time is elastic! We waited over 1 hour for lunch with no one else at the restaraunt!), we hitch-hiked to the town center (I don't recommend this for those youngsters reading this at home however). We found an internet cafe with a big poster for Britney Spears and R. Kelly. Weird.
We will proceed to the market to purchase some mild food for dinner then hitch or take a motorcycle taxi back to the guest house.
Thanks for following our journey. Remember to e-mail us if you have questions. We can answer them on this site.
Tomorrow we plan on traveling to Goma, DRC, to eat lunch and hike up an active volcano (at least part of the way). And on Tuesday, we plan to travel to Imbabzi Orpanage (Roz Carr's-BTW read her book Land of 1,000 Hills).
Take care.
Kuntz and Cave
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