Arriving in Musanze we went directly to the fabric market where Eric bargained manfully for me to get a decent price. Jenny and Marina had bought fabric already, then a quick trip to the tailor to order garments....these would be ready for Wednesday afternoon. Then to see Eric's new house which is looking rather good and he's bought some snazzy furniture. I think he'll have to rent it out though to raise some more money. We met Janette his girlfriend, they're getting married in January.
Settled ourselves into the B and B, dinner at Mingano, huge portions, not licenced!
Early start the following morning as Jenny and Marina were trecking the Golden Monkeys which they thoroughly enjoyed, I sat in the car and got a considerable amount of notes onto the laptop.
Then to my favourite hotel in the area...the 5 Volcanoes for lunch.
And then to the cultural village where Marina was carried as a bride to be wed to her betrothed!
It's a good place to visit as I've mentioned before, the people involved are ex poachers and now very aware of teaching about the environment. And I have to say my visitors were worse at shooting with bow and arrows than I was on my visit.
Wednesday we went to Ros Carr's house, again the ladies enjoyed the tour. Then to Lake Kivu, lunch at Tam Tam's, a paddle, and boat trip to Congo border.
Eric and Janette
It seemed strange to us that Janette who had lived in Musanze for 3 years whilst at uni, hadn't thought of catching a bus and visiting Lake Kivu. This was her first visit beyond Musanze
Blue roof building in DR Congo
So Thursday had a leisurely start, and after I took some left over fabric to the tailor to have another top made we went to Lake Ruhonda, another boat ride to the resort on an island where we enjoyed a nice cold Primus and a brochette and very good chips! We made it back to the mainland just in time. We'd been watching the black clouds approaching for some time. So a very wet drive south on tarmac, then 18 k on muddy roads, although we'd driven out of the rain and arrived at the Sorwathe Tea plantation and factory about 5 for a welcome cup of tea. We had a very nice dinner sitting outside with a fire pot blazing away to keep the chill at bay. The following morning after breakfast Jenny and Marina embarked on the tour of the tea factory, which again they found very interesting and enjoyable, sadly by the end it was tipping it down again so they didn't get good pics. Off to Kigali, stopping once more for brochette and potato.
Good to be home again and chill.
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