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Tourism
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Tourism
Rwanda is popularly known as ‘the land of a thousand hills' because of its many tourist attractions. The landscapes in this green country are truly incredible.
Fortune people who had had chance to visit Rwanda has remarked that the physical beauty of the country is unique on the African continent. From East to West ; and North to South, you get to discover one of the God's best creations with a holy climate.
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Akagera Game Lodge. The favoured spot
This game lodge set off in the southern part of the Akagera game park, two hours drive away from the capital Kigali has grown to prominence ever since its re-openning and now it attracts government retreats and throngs of tourist like it had never before but why is that ?
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Comprehensive guide to FAQs
In case you need more information on tourism, investment, how to live and work in Rwanda, get a work permit or visa, set up a business and others, please view our comprehensive guide to Frequently Asked Questions
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Cooperatives fostering responsible tourism
Long fabled as the place where honey and milk flows un- hindered and the land of a thousand hills, it is indeed a place where deep volcanic forces are pressing the continental plates apart, thus a world of exquisite beauty and unsurpassed biodiversity
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Cultural and heritage tourism vie for top slot in Rwanda
To India it is a visit to the Taj Mahal, to Egypt it is a visit to the ancient and towering pyramids. This is a developing and crucial segment of the tourism industry and it is non other than cultural and heritage tourism.
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Fifth Annual Kwita Izina/Gorilla Naming Ceremony
Rwanda's Tourism premier tourism event- Kwita Izina Ceremony (Gorilla Naming Ceremony) is set for June 20th 2009. In particular, this year's event coincides with the United Nation's declaration of 2009 as the “Year of the Gorilla”.
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Gorilla Fund Coffee
Gorilla Fund Coffee from Rwanda is a rich medium roast coffee with citrus high notes over deep chocolate undertones. $1.00 from the sale of each package is donated to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. In 2003, DGFGI joined with Thanksgiving Coffee Company to create Gorilla Fund Coffee to help gorillas and support small-scale farmers in Rwanda.
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Lake Kivu
Lake Kivu is the largest of numerous freshwater bodies that shimmer in the valleys of Rwanda. Lakes Burera and Ruhondo, close to the gorilla-tracking centre of Ruhengeri, are oft-neglected gems, deep blue waters ringed by steep hills and tall waterfalls
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List of airline companies operating in Rwanda
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New tourism guideline released
The National Tourism Office has put in place a new policy on how to share revenue with communities surrounding national parks. The ORTPN Director General, Chantal Rugamba, said
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Nyungwe National Park
Extending for 1,000 square kilometres across the majestic hills of southeast Rwanda, Nyungwe National Park is the largest block of montane forest in East or Central Africa, and one of the most ancient, dating back to before the last Ice Age
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ORTPN in eco-tourism drive
The policy at the ORTPN is one geared at a high end kind of tourism, as opposed to mass tourism. In the high end tourism system, you target a few tourists, but then get a lot of revenue out of it. This is geared at the protection and management of the environmentally sensitive areas.
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Parc National Des Volcans
Lying in the northern part of the country the Parc National Des Volcans are towering up to almost 15,000 feet, and nearly covered with rich, green rainforest. Notable amongst them is the "the Virungas", situated in the far northwest of Rwanda and habitat to the Rwanda's most prized endowment- the mountain gorilla in its natural habitat
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Rwanda Phone Directory
The Rwanda phonebook is the most complete and detailed Yellow Pages of Rwanda. It contains Local Telephone Directory and Yellow Pages on the Internet.
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Rwanda’s success renewed as best exhibitor among African countries at ITB-Berlin.
Rwanda has entered into a historically new era of excellence and has once again made an impressive presence as the best exhibitor among African countries at the annual Internationale Tourismus Börse (ITB-Berlin).
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Rwandan travel and touring agencies in itinerary galore
The world over, travel and touring companies are a by-word for reception, guide and information, in the touring industry, needless to say Rwandan touring and travel agencies are not an exception in this mad dash to welcome tourists and arrange the sight seeing desires of the varying tourist.
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The Akagera National Park
Bordering Rwanda's eastern neighbor Tanzania, Akagera National Park could scarcely be more different in mood to the breezy cultivated hills that characterize much of Rwanda. Dominated scenically by the labyrinth of swamps and lakes that follow the meandering course of the Akagera River
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Tour Operators in Rwanda
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Tourism sector Booming
Rwanda's tourism sector is experiencing a boom thanks to the government's new approach to a sector that was until recently on the verge of total failure. Like any other sectors of the economy, the tourism sector was gravely affected by the 1994 genocide and war
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Travel agents operating in Rwanda
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Cooperatives fostering responsible tourism