so far we have driven round Kigali a bit, including during the spooky ghost town atmosphere of Umuganda, and a route where you go from one busy developed hill to another via a dirt road and fields and are still in the city. We have also visited the market and the Baobab hotel which is a great Sunday afternoon spot.
Monday / Tuesday saw us going to Butare, surprising the chaps at the pottery and tinnery who recognised us until we explained that these were Lons parents this time..
We also visited the memorial site at Murambi
this is the view from the hill, and nearby we could hear the sounds of drums and singing
Wiki describes
The Murambi Technical School, situated in the Murambi district in southern Rwanda, was the
site of a massacre during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. When the killings started, Tutsis in the region tried to hide at the local church. However, the bishop and the mayor lured them into a trap by sending them to the technical school on a hill, claiming that French troops would protect them there. On April 16, 1994, some 65,000 Tutsis ran to the school, but immediately water and electricity was cut off. After managing to defend themselves with stones during a few days, the Tutsi were overrun on April 21. The French soldiers disappeared and the school was attacked by Interahamwe militiamen.
Some 45,000 Tutsi were murdered at the school, and almost all of those who managed to escape were killed the next day when they tried to hide in a nearby church.[1] The school building is now a genocide museum exhibiting the skeletons and mummified bodies of some of the thousands of people butchered there.
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