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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

Main Article : “Gishwati: The Forest of Hope”

	Imagine a forest in Africa. The landscape is hilly and small rivers with scenic waterfalls thread their way through the center. It is dawn. Brightly colored birds are stirring and beginning to sing. Families of mountain monkeys and golden monkeys are waking up and beginning their day. A small community of eastern chimpanzees, a relic from a once larger population, still remains, a remarkable and poignant testimony to the resilience of nature and of life itselfThere are about 15 chimpanzees, including three infants, and they too are greeting the new day from their night nests.                                                                                                         More
Travel Review : Akagera National Park
	It is early in the morning, and the valley below is covered in a blanket of fluffy white cloud. Before long the clouds have lifted, revealing the vast complex of forest-fringed lakes, papyrus swamps and the meandering course of the Akagera River. We are in Akagera National Park, Rwanda’s largest national park and one of the most diverse and scenically-attractive savannah reserves in Africa. Our early morning wakeup call was well worth the effort. Akagera National Park has had a colourful history. Gazetted in 1934,                                                           More
Vehicle Review : Toyota Yaris (Sedan) Review by Tony Glencross
	My first car was a Mini, 1275 CC GT with double carbs and a 0 to 60 KM time (about 6 seconds) equal to the CAR of the generation, the Golf 1 GTI. The reason I am telling you this is because I was recently given the Toyota Yaris to test drive. This is a 1300CC injection engine that goes like a bomb. Even my GT mini did not have this kind of pace. How they get these little cars to go so fast is beyond me – it is almost mind popping how quickly they fly off the mark! They accelerate well, and handle like a dream, Yada yada yada technology – the performance that can be delivered by a 1300 CC engine is remarkable.                                       More
Report : The River Nile Part 2 (Forming DeNile). By Peter Knight
	While we tend to think of the Nile as ancient (it was flowing long before civilisations started to develop along its banks 5,000 years BCE), in geological terms it’s a baby. At least 100 million years ago, in Cretaceous times, vast amounts of material uplifted in Central Africa was carried north by river systems, changing the landscapes. We know that rain has fallen on Africa for a long time and when it reaches the ground it flows to towards the lowest point. Geologists can find evidence of rivers over this period but cannot trace them accurately. And when rising sea in early                                                  More
Accommodation Review: Jacana Safari Lodge
	Review by The Eye. There are many lodges in Uganda well worth their weight in gold but there are in my opinion few lodges that can offer you a complete package of rest & relaxation – we found Jacana Safari Lodge to be one of these lodges. Located just inside Queen Elizabeth National Park in the Western part of Uganda, on the edge of Uganda’s largest Crater Lake, Jacana Safari Lodge opened in 1998. The lodge is built from local resources, using rock, poles, wood, rope, organic furniture and rich textiles. One can see that a lot of imagination and effort went into building it. The lodge is all natural and extremely comfortable, whilst still giving one that homely feeling.                                      More
Charity Review : Japanese Volunteers (Kibungo Cooperative)
	By David Sekyanzi Innovations from Japan combined with traditional Rwandan materials and expertise are helping to give artists working in the Eastern Province a new lease of life. Mr. Takeshi Noguchi, 26, an Overseas Cooperation Volunteer from Tokyo, Japan is supporting a group of artists working together and selling their wares through a cooperative called Cooperative de Vente de Produits des Artisanats de Kibungo (Covepaki), based in Ngoma District (Kibungo Town Council). The Cooperative launched in 1987and has 21 members and three permanent staff. It is linked with about 30 smaller cooperatives that provide items for sale.                      More