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Ishema Your Home in Rwanda Vanessa E.Nuwera
Ngango(Mrs.) General Manager,
Ishema Hotel. P. O. Box 26,
Musanze - Rwanda Contacts; General
Manager: +250 (03) 641
111, Booking line: +250
546856 email;ishema_hotel@hotmail.com
or RWANDA
NEWS UPDATE The
Office for National Parks and Tourism
under the Rwanda Development Board has now
informed that they have acquired a 24
seater 'comfort' boat for Lake Kivu to
offer a new product to visitors coming to
the area. Serena Hotels operates the
nearby Lake Kivu Hotel, assuring visitors
of international standards and quality and
the new boat service is aimed to allow
tourists to spend more time in the area,
exploring the lake shores for birds.
The
boat is also providing a new route between
the gorilla national park and the Nyungwe
Forest National Park according to the
statement received from ORTPN, which makes
visits to Rwanda more exciting than ever
before. While gorillas can be tracked at
the 'Parc de Volcanoes' the Nyungwe park
is home to some 13 species of other
primates, including chimpanzees and a
variety of other game, birds and a unique
flora. The
annual gorilla naming ceremony 'Kwita
Izina', an absolute highlight in the
tourism activities calendar in Rwanda, is
provisionally set for 20th June 2009 and
at least a dozen new born gorillas will be
'baptized' on that day. The festival
itself however will span several days
prior and after the naming day to allow
for a range of additional activities to
take place. Rwanda
had a record tourism year in 2008 and
expects to do even better in 2009, now
that more products and services are
available. About
Ishema Hotel and Rwanda as a Tourism
Destination Rwanda's
countryside is covered by grasslands and
small farms extending to over-rolling
hills, with areas of rugged mountains that
extend southeast from a chain of volcanoes
in the northwest. The divide between the
Congo and Nile drainage systems extends
from north to south through western Rwanda
at an average elevation of almost 9,000
feet (2,740 m). On the western slopes
of this ridgeline, the land slopes
abruptly toward Lake Kivu and the Ruzizi
River valley, and constitutes part of the
Great Rift Valley. The eastern slopes are
more moderate, with rolling hills
extending across central uplands at
gradually reducing altitudes, to the
plains, swamps, and lakes of the eastern
border region. Rwanda
is made up of five Provinces, that is, the
Northen, Southern, Eastern, Westerna and
Kigali City; and each Province has several
districts. Musanze district, found in the
Northern Province, and bordering Uganda at
Chanika outlet, is dominated by high
mountains and over hanged by a chain of
volcanoes with the climax being Karisimbi
summit with 4507 meters of altitude. With
average altitude of 2000m, the entire
Northern Province abounds in varied
diversity of fauna and flora. Musanze
district is the home of home of the rare
mountain gorilla - and bamboo
forests. The
increasing numbers of tourists visiting
the district has encouraged a number of
potential investors, to invest in the
tourism and hospitality related facilities
and services. The Diocese of Shyira, under
the leadership of Bishop John Rucyahana,
has made considerable investment by
putting up Ishema Hotel. Ishema is a
Kinyadwanda word, meaning; "We pride in
excellence". Ishema
Hotel has 60 living rooms (ranging form
twin, double, Junior and Executive Suits,
and altogether with a maximum capacity of
100 pax. Equipped function rooms for
meetings, workshops and parties are also
available as well as well designed and
homely gardens for outdoor functions, one
of the gardens situated at the swimming
pool. Other facilities and services
include; restaurants, coffee shop,
business center transport and tour
services. Air
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Rwanda
is popularly known as 'the "Land of a
Thousand Hills" (French: Pays des Mille
Collines) Kinyarwanda: (Igihugu cy'Imisozi
Igihumbi). It has incredible and beautiful
landscapes, and is separated from the
Democratic Republic of the Congo by Lake
Kivu and the Rusizi River valley to the
west; it is boarded on the north by
Uganda, to the east by Tanzania, and to
the south by Burundi. The capital city,
Kigali, is located in the center of the
country. It is a very small country yet
the most densely populated (approximately
10.1 million people) on the continent of
Africa, with an area of 26,338 sq km
(10,170 sq mi). Most of her population is
engaged in subsistence
agriculture.
The
transport system in Rwanda centers
primarily around the road network, with
paved roads between the capital, Kigali
and most other major cities and towns in
the country. Rwanda is also linked by an
important road for trade, with other East
African countries. The country has an
international airport at Kigali, serving
domestic and several International
destinations
Also
within the district, are lovely Lakes, and
these include; Lakes Burera, Ruhondo and
Karago. Musanze offers a good selection of
reasonably-priced small and medium hotels
and guest houses. The natural beauty of
Musanze District has made it the most
favored location, for both local and
international tourists. Every year, the
district hosts a very important ceremony
of naming new born gorillas, commonly
known as KWITA IZINA.
