1 Day Kigali City Tour Exploration
1 Days & Nights
Day to Day itinerary Details
Pick up at your hotel in the morning then start a historical-minded exploration of Kigali city with visits to landmarks from colonial, post-independence, genocide and post-genocide times i.e. Kigali Genocide memorial site where over 250,000 genocide victims were put to rest in mass graves, Belgian camp where 10 Belgian UN soldiers were killed trying to protect the moderate prime Minister Agathe who was opposing the genocide.
Visit Kandt house, the first German explorer who settled in Kigali. Get to learn more about Rwandan history especially during colonial time by Germans. This museum has lots of art displays that are linked to traditional Rwanda and the living of Rwandans in the old ages.
Have lunch at Afrika Bite, enjoy hot local cuisines.
Later you will visit the Campaign against Genocide Museum. This museum tells part of the many Rwanda’s sad stories of the yesteryears, of despair, struggling to free a people from the yoke of subjugation, the efforts and the sacrifices that were suffered and written during the time of rescuing the Tutsi from the strangling hands of Interahamwe; the campaign that was started from the parliament buildings and became successful, a “Campaign Against Genocide” (CAG Museum) was built in the parliamentary compound.
End the tour with visits to art shops and Made in Rwanda shops to buy souvenirs (if time allows)
On your return to the hotel in the evening you will visit Nyamirambo, Kigali’s vibrant and busiest place, get to compare the modern Kigali versus the old Kigali, get to learn the history of this old slum and see how people live there. you will be dropped off at your hotel in the evening.
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