Motos - Rwanda's urban transport, always carrying a helmet for their passengers
Clean, punctual, law abiding, orderly, expensive… Are you thinking of Switzerland? A few hours in Rwanda and these attributes are all around you!
Squeaky clean: in Kigali, in the most remote village, simply everywhere! None of the usual plastic litter - Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008. Bus schedules are taken seriously: if your transport is scheduled to leave at 10:30, it does so. Never ever will you see a Moto-driver or his passenger without a helmet. Receipts are given for every purchase and service. No beggars, no pushy street vendors, none of the usual. Speeding? Forget about it! The military, when they are not guarding constructions sites in Kigali, is checking the traffic on overland roads.
Prices are stiff, at least for services that tourists request. So called mid-range hotels for 65 USD are the rule, a dish of spaghetti for 7 USD not uncommon. The entry fee to the National Museums is a painful 10 USD and a photo permit at the Genocide memorial a striking 20 USD! Nobody blinks twice for dishing out the 500 USD for the gorilla permit.
Rwanda even keeps up with another one of Swiss qualities: excellent roads. All major roads are equally state of art, mostly built by the Austrian company STRABAG.
Clean, punctual, law abiding, orderly, expensive… Are you thinking of Switzerland? A few hours in Rwanda and these attributes are all around you!
Squeaky clean: in Kigali, in the most remote village, simply everywhere! None of the usual plastic litter - Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008. Bus schedules are taken seriously: if your transport is scheduled to leave at 10:30, it does so. Never ever will you see a Moto-driver or his passenger without a helmet. Receipts are given for every purchase and service. No beggars, no pushy street vendors, none of the usual. Speeding? Forget about it! The military, when they are not guarding constructions sites in Kigali, is checking the traffic on overland roads.
Prices are stiff, at least for services that tourists request. So called mid-range hotels for 65 USD are the rule, a dish of spaghetti for 7 USD not uncommon. The entry fee to the National Museums is a painful 10 USD and a photo permit at the Genocide memorial a striking 20 USD! Nobody blinks twice for dishing out the 500 USD for the gorilla permit.
Rwanda even keeps up with another one of Swiss qualities: excellent roads. All major roads are equally state of art, mostly built by the Austrian company STRABAG.
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