Congo nile track // day 2
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 10.37 mi
- Elevation gain
- 0 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 0 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,814 ft
- TrailRank
- 42
- Min elevation
- 4,799 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 3 hours 26 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 45 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2742
- Uploaded
- November 3, 2019
- Recorded
- November 2019
near Buzuru, Intara y’ Iburengerazuba (Rwanda)
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Itinerary description
From Cyimbiri to Kinunu
We started the day by taking a nice shortcut. There is a small path that follows the shoreline that starts right outside the guesthouse. It’s easy to find and follow without any instructions. Also this way you can skip one uphill.
The second day was more calm and quiet at the beginning with not so many towns. On the other hand there were few towns that had good stores you can buy water and snacks.
On the half way we were really bothered by a group of teenage girls. They kept circling us and begging money, food, clother etc. We tried to stop to make them go but they would wait for us and when we tried to walk away they kept following. We made it politely and firmly very clear that we want them to go and they keps bothering us clearly on purpose. So in the end we were really annoyed and didn’t relly know what to do anymore. In general small children just followed us for some hundreds of meters and are really harmles.
In the end there is 3km downhill to find two options for accommodation. We opted the cheaper one, Kinunu guesthouse. We also visited the logde, that seemend more like villa for rich people, alltho you can bargain to pitch your tent outside.
Kinunu guesthouse has a nice piece of land next to the lake where we pitched our tent. They sell beer, water and food. Breakfast was 3000rwf.
We decided to head back to Gisenyi the next morning. Our idea was to walk (~ 10km) to the main road and catch a bus/ hitch from there. But in the end Kinunu guest house staff ordered motobikes to take us to the main road ( 2000rwf each) and from there we took a bus (for 1000rwf each). Moto ride was bumpy and a bit nerve racking. This path would also make a nice hike alltho there are quite many hills.
We started the day by taking a nice shortcut. There is a small path that follows the shoreline that starts right outside the guesthouse. It’s easy to find and follow without any instructions. Also this way you can skip one uphill.
The second day was more calm and quiet at the beginning with not so many towns. On the other hand there were few towns that had good stores you can buy water and snacks.
On the half way we were really bothered by a group of teenage girls. They kept circling us and begging money, food, clother etc. We tried to stop to make them go but they would wait for us and when we tried to walk away they kept following. We made it politely and firmly very clear that we want them to go and they keps bothering us clearly on purpose. So in the end we were really annoyed and didn’t relly know what to do anymore. In general small children just followed us for some hundreds of meters and are really harmles.
In the end there is 3km downhill to find two options for accommodation. We opted the cheaper one, Kinunu guesthouse. We also visited the logde, that seemend more like villa for rich people, alltho you can bargain to pitch your tent outside.
Kinunu guesthouse has a nice piece of land next to the lake where we pitched our tent. They sell beer, water and food. Breakfast was 3000rwf.
We decided to head back to Gisenyi the next morning. Our idea was to walk (~ 10km) to the main road and catch a bus/ hitch from there. But in the end Kinunu guest house staff ordered motobikes to take us to the main road ( 2000rwf each) and from there we took a bus (for 1000rwf each). Moto ride was bumpy and a bit nerve racking. This path would also make a nice hike alltho there are quite many hills.
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