After our adventures in DRC we arrived back in Rwanda for a couple of days chilling by the lake at the Paradise Malahide Hotel on the shores of Lake Kivu. It was much needed as at least 1 member of the team (me!) could barely walk after the downhill part of our volcano trek. Very entertaining staff here, who wanted to share jokes as much as look after us. It wasn’t the smartest hotel in the world and it has to be said that I could probably have shopped and cooked in the time it took for food to arrive in the restaurant (mmm maybe not given the state of my legs!). But the location was beautiful and they could not have tried harder to take care of us. When we left they came out to say goodbye and gave us fresh home made donuts for our journey.
We did have one of our usual funny excursions to the local hot springs. First of all we walked through the village dodging a huge digger reversing at speed without too much concern for human life. It was digging up what appeared to be a really good road. Oh well TIA so who knows why? We took a wrong turn and some kind soul let us walk up through his back garden. Before our travels if someone said “let’s go to the hot springs” I would have had a mental image of some kind of luxurious spa experience but after mud baths in Colombia and hot springs in Ecuador I thought I now had a better idea. However these were a new low, the 2 baths resembled very bad home made fish ponds filled with murky brown water which I grant you were hot. Drew and I wisely chose not to partake, Geoff and Cara were more game. No photos as I am not sure the local bathers would have appreciated it.
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