Rwanda · East Africa
Kigali and Lake Kivu.
Kigali is the calmest capital in the region, and Lake Kivu gives Rwanda a genuine lakeside pause.
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The Kigali Genocide Memorial is not an optional stop for a visitor trying to understand the country, and the city itself is safe, walkable and increasingly good for food and craft.
Kivu's shore towns — Rubavu, Karongi, Rusizi — are where Rwandans go for a weekend, and they work well as a decompression day between the forest and the flight home.
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Elsewhere in Rwanda
- Volcanoes National ParkVolcanoes is the Rwandan side of the Virunga massif and the most accessible mountain gorilla trekking in the world.
- Nyungwe ForestNyungwe is one of the oldest montane rainforests in Africa and Rwanda's chimpanzee and canopy-walk destination.
- AkageraAkagera is Rwanda's savannah park in the east, restocked with lion and rhino and now a genuine Big Five destination.
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