Road Trip.

This past weekend, a group of friends and I headed out to Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda.  This was my first time actually riding, with friends, in a car, on a road trip while living in Rwanda.  And it was SO FUN!  Public transport definitely has its perks, but driving through the hills of Rwanda, playing good music, with great friends was just incredible.  (Normally, on busses, an obscene amount of Celine Dion is played...) 

Enjoy the pictures!

Isn't Rwanda gorgeous?  This is a tea field.  We passed miles and miles of them.

Bicyclists here are incredible.  Believe it or not, this is NOT the biggest piece of furniture spotted on a bike... 

Some of the hills are rather steep.  I often see people hitching rides on the back of semi-trucks.

Need a snack?  Pull over for some sugar cane.

Then enjoy... (but make sure you spit out the cane.)

Across the border, we reached Kabale, Uganda.  The piles are clothes for sale.

Here is Lake Bunyonyi.  So beautiful.

Dugout canoe: the primary method of transportation on Lake Bunyonyi.  (We took a motorboat as it was pouring rain and pitch dark when we arrived!)  Although, I have paddled one of these puppies before.  They are VERY hard to steer.  You tend to go in circles...

Fun out on the water with great friends.

Torey (one of my roommates) and I.

We visited Bushara Island, my favorite.  Mostly because there are towering eucalyptus trees and tons of gorgeous moss.  Look at this!

Nothing better than being on the water.

Beautiful color on the way back home. This is what many homes / buildings look like outside of Kigali.