Rwanda - a country of vast beauty I

Rwanda is a rather small country but of vast beauty. Kigali, the capital, is basically the only big city. It is located exactly in the middle of Rwanda, according to Richard Kandt's measures, a German, who founded the "city on a thousand hills" in the center of the country in 1907.

Thousand hills is a good description not only for the landscape in and around Kigali, but for all of Rwanda. There are the beautiful rainforest mountains in the south-west, extending into Burundi and in total composing the largest area of mountain rainforest in the world (1030km2). We visited this area some days ago, hiking in the rainforest on altitudes from 1900m to 2500m. Unfortunately we did not see too many of the 275 different species of birds, the 100 varieties of orchids or the 13 types of primates. Following are pictures from "Nyungwe National Park", one of the three national parks.

AL

[pictures with AL behind the picture are from my friend Achim Luft]

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Gruß an AL und EL und Euch alle :-)