Africa

There’s nowhere like it on the planet for wildlife, wild lands and rich traditions that endure. Prepare to fall in love.

FIRST SCAM

We decided to overnight again next to the Alpha Hotel in Kabanga. We took our dinner and fixed our internet at the shop opposite the hotel. The next day, we drove towards Mwanza, but the road was terrible. It was a 5-hour journey of heavy off-roading through a rough, bumpy dirt road...

KABANGA BORDER

We arrived at the border with expired transit visas (3 days validity). According to all officers at the Kobero border, we were initially supposed to prolong them in Bujumbura, where the immigration office was supposed to be open on weekends. We specially asked for that information on our...

GITEGA

Gitega, formerly Kitega, is the political capital of Burundi. It is located in the country’s center, in the Burundian central plateau, roughly 62 kilometres east of Bujumbura. It is the country’s fourth largest city and the former royal capital of the Kingdom of Burundi until...

BUJUMBURA

After descending from the mountains, we arrived in Bujumbura on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal. The country’s largest city, Bujumbura, was the capital until 2019, when it was designed as the economic capital. It lies...

BURUNDI TODAY

A brick-colored dirt road contrasts with the surrounding nature of banana trees and rice crops. For the first time during our expedition, we had to strictly follow the itinerary and observe our diesel consumption because, for years, there has been no diesel supply in landlocked Burundi...

KIREMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

During the visit of Kayanza, organised by Jean Marie Vianney Ndayishimiye, advisor to the governor of Kayanza Province in charge of legal affairs, we passed by the Kirema Primary School, which received the special edition of Jimbere on the #BackToSchool campaign of UNICEF in Burundi.