Views of Kigali and Butaro countryside

 Rwandan countryside (through the car window as we are driving)

 I think these are gum trees (eucalyptus)

 Farming plots cover the hillside

 The plots look like a patchwork quilt in some places

 I like this blue door

 People working the hills

 Villager houses

 Waterfalls abound

 Collecting grasses, probably for weaving baskets or repairing thatch roofs

Lush forests

 This is in Butaro.  You can see a volcano in the background.  

Gorillas live on each of the 5 volcanoes that spread from Congo 

to Rwanda to Uganda, also known as the Virunga Rift Valley.

 Buying produce at the market in Kigali

 Mangos are super cheap.  Six for $1.50

 Our friend Alex and Cheryl's house in Rwinkwauvu, (very near to Kayonza, the location that
I'll be doing landscape designwork).  They have a 6 month old baby.  Their house is made
out of 100% rammed-earth (soil)...a new and sustainable technology over here.

 Alex is over-seeing a building project at the Rwinkwauvu Partners in Health hospital.

Their little Xavier playing with his tent.

 Big baby for 6-mos; he loves bananas.

 View of Kigali.  Its a bustling city.

 Nothing but houses built on hills.  The story is that at the beginning of settlement 

each of the brothers of the cheif's family got his very own hill, and that is why all of 

these hills became populated, through the offspring on each hillside.

 Exotic flowers in Butaro