A growing country with lots to see

For globetrotters, Rwanda probably isn’t top of the list for ‘must visit’ destinations. Over the past 20 years, it certainly hasn’t been a tourist hot spot.

Rwanda’s bloody past hindered any foreign visitors coming to country. But now, nearly two decades on from the genocide, Rwanda is ready to show the world what it has to offer.

On visiting Rwanda you could be forgiven for thinking you were holidaying in a tropical Swiss Alps, surrounded by so many mountains, green hills and fresh-looking lakes. It is no wonder Rwanda has been given the name ‘the Land of a Thousand Hills’.

Alain, Sonia and their friends are having a great time taking a boat trip across one of the many lakes in Rwanda. It is something they have not done before but they would recommend it to visitors. They disembark at an island in the middle of the lake where there is a colony of fruit bats. Find the appropriate spot, clap your hands loudly and swarms emerge from their leafy hideaways into the sky.

Some people may say bats aren’t their favourite animals. But the sight of hundreds of fruit bats winging across the skyline is an amazing spectacle.