Tuesday, August 19, 2008

And Finally There: Really... Finally

We finally got to Rwanda after a hell of a trip.
Our flight left Frankfurt at 11:15 p.m. and arrived in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia around 7 hours later at 7:25 local time. We were then supposed to leave for Kigali at 11:15... or something like that... well, at least that didn't happen because hour flight was delayed by 6 hours... probably only God knows why.
At least we know Addis Abeba airport pretty well now... except that we couldn't find the exit, I'm still not sure if it even has one or if the employees live in the bulding ??? And just a hint for anyone that should ever end up in this airport: Make sure you have American dallars $$$ because that is the only currency that is accepted and they don't take credit cards if you don't buy anything above 100$... or at least when you just want to buy a bottle of water... that wont work...
But we finally got to Kigali after stopping again in Entebbe, Uganda, to let some people get off the plane. The first impression of Kigali was a classic, just imagine a big city in central Africa and whatever you imagine is really Kigali...red dust, lots of people, small huts... I hope I'll get to post some pictures once the internet gets fixed.
The place we are staying at is great! We even have warm water!! I'll also post pictures of the place soon... hopefully.

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