About Iby’ Iwachu Cultural Village Iby’ Iwachu Cultural Village is located near Parc National des Volcans in Kinigi. Its has been developed to display local and traditional lifestyles, activities and artefacts. Local communities benefit and earn directly from this community based tourism initiative to improve their socio-economic ways of living and as an incentive for […]
Rwanda Overview
Rwanda is a flourishing country of fertile and lush mountainous terrain; this small country bears the large title, ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. Rwanda is home to the ‘Virungas’ – great old volcanoes that tower up to almost 15,000 feet, and are nearly covered with rich, green rainforest.
Rwanda is a country which will enchant you with its mysterious intimacy of the rainforest, alive with the calls of many colourful birds and chattering of the rare golden monkey, alongside the grunts and rustling from one of the most important residents, the endangered mountain gorilla.
Rwanda is also a country that will provide you with a truly magical introduction to the wonders of the African bush. Rich swampland, shimmering lakes, rugged grasslands are all entangled with wild acacia woodland.
Geographical Features
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes Region, located a few degrees south of the Equator. It is bordered on the north by Uganda, on the south by Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west and Tanzania in the east.
Rwanda’s countryside is characterised by rolling grasslands and areas of rugged mountains that extend southeast from a chain of volcanoes.
Rwanda is a tropical country, whose high elevation makes the climate temperate. In the mountains, frost and snow are possible. Dian Fossey describes these mountain are being ‘in the heart of central Africa, so high up that you shiver more then you sweat’.
As well as having the affectionate name ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’, Rwanda is also considered the lightening capital of the world. This is due to intense daily Tsunami’s during the two rainy seasons (February – May and September – December).
