We walked down exactly one road in Kigali -- a wide boulevard that skirted a lovely park and gardens and ended at a big fountain -- so we can't recount too many wild city adventures.
What we can talk about, and wildly too, are the incredible birds that casually alight in Rwandan trees. Rwanda has birds like we have breakfast cereals: all imaginable colors and shapes, all spread out in front of you. We hear that Uganda's array is even more impressive! Well, we've been bitten by the birding bug, officially.
These birds below are ones we saw on our day in
a Kigali hostel , almost entirely from the balcony off our room! Thanks to an encyclopedic volume on the birds of East Africa (thanks mom!) we've even managed to identify a lot of them.
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| Some chattery thing...I'll have to look that up again |
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| Black Kite! |
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| Ross's Turaco! |
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| The view from our room |
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| One of the deep valleys that wrinkle around the city |
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| Saturday is, apparently, an incredibly popular day for weddings. During our 40 min walk, we saw at least a half dozen wedding parties! |
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