Welcome to the Insider's Guide to Rwanda
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Dear Reader, In this issue our focus is on getting outdoors! Check out our travel review on cruising the Delta; our sports & outdoors ............... Read More
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The Eye Rwanda is a free quarterly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Rwanda, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is distributed for readers and advertisers through national and regional airlines and tour operators, the airport information office, foreign diplomatic missions and NGOs, selected restaurants and bars, supermarkets and gift shops, all major hotels in Kigali and sorrounding areas and ORTPN (The Office Rwandaise Tourisme et Parcs Nationaux).It's also distributed to tour operators between Uganda and Kenya.
Articles in This Issue
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‘The government in Kigali stands out from amongst
the partners in the East African Community through
a number of things, but for the purpose of this article
particularly in their stand on conservation and
environmental protection. Some years ago, when the ‘kaveera pest’ swept across all of Eastern Africa, Rwanda took an unprecedented step to ban the production, importation and use of plastic bags and following a short and sharp campaign the prohibition stuck and is in fact being enhanced yet more through an amendment to existing law.Other countries in the region bowed to pressure of well connected industrialists, looked to justify their diddling and dithering and while marginally. More |
| Travel Review : Cruising the Delta. By Andy Ault | |
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We arrive at the river a little after six thirty in the
morning, a slow drifting steam floats above the
swirling currents of the Nile as it flows downstream
past the ferry crossing at Paraa. Our guide met us
beneath the acacia tree in the parking area and
welcomed us down onto the jetty and into our
waiting boat. The air was cool and it felt really
beautiful to enjoy the coolness of morning before
the sun warmed up the air as we pushed off from
the jetty a few minutes before seven and the skipper
angled his craft downstream toward the delta.This was it, I have lived in Uganda a good number of
years now and been in Murchison Falls National Park
several times to enjoy the waterfall cruise and even
the walk up to the Top of the Falls, but I had never
taken the opportunity.................. More |
| Accommodation : Nyungwe Forest Lodge | |
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We had often heard of Nyungwe Forest Lodge being
a 5 star establishment. A 5 star establishment in
Nyungwe National Park. How exciting. My wife and
I decided we must go and try it out. And so we made
reservations through Primate Safaris and drove to
Nyungwe Forest. The drive is not long from Kigali, it took us approx. 3 hours and most of the road is really good. We left in the morning and our plan was to be there for lunch. The lodge is just a few kilometres from the main road and the access road leading up to the lodge from the main road is also good. Definitely saloon car accessible if anyone does not have access to a four wheel drive. More |
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By Gill East |
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Although its prevalence in Rwanda is not accurately
known, hearing loss can have a devastating impact in
the lives of those that are affected. The World Health
Organisation has stated that hearing impairment is the
most frequent sensory deficit in human populations,
affecting more than an estimated 250 million people in the world and middle ear infections rate as the most common form of childhood illness. One of the reasons hearing loss may be more common than you think, is that it is a hidden impairment and often one which is undiagnosed or misunderstood. Children with hearing loss are routinely assumed to be lacking in intelligence,................. More |
