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Rwanda

3 places
Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, is a small, steep, densely-farmed country that endured one of the twentieth century's worst genocides in 1994 and has since become one of Africa's cleanest, safest, and most orderly states. Terraced hillsides climb toward volcanoes on the Congo border, where…

Kigali & the South1 place

KigaliTown · ●●●○○One of Africa's cleanest, safest, and most orderly capitals, spread over green hills, and home to a memorial that…

The North & East (Gorillas & Savanna)1 place

Volcanoes National ParkNature · ●●●●○The misty, volcano-cradled forest where Dian Fossey made mountain gorillas known to the world, and where trekking up…

The West (Lake Kivu)1 place

Lake Kivu & Nyungwe ForestNature · ●●●○○A big, calm lake fringed with beaches and terraced hills, beside one of the oldest rainforests in Africa, where a…