Ndaba Rock

picture info	Ndaba Rock Ndaba Rocks, commonly known in Kinyarwanda as "Urutare rwa Ndaba," is one of Rwanda's most intriguing cultural and historic tourism places. Ndaba Rocks and Waterfalls is one of Karongi District, Karongi district's most popular tourist attractions, not only because of its beauty but also because of the mythical history that surrounds it. Mythical stories around Ndaba rock It is assumed that before the dawn of civilization, a well-known "Ndaba" resided in the forest surrounding the rock and hunted for a time. While out hunting for wild game and honey with his pals, he came across a rock with a large bees hole. He went to the hole because he was curious and ambitious, and he saw a lot of honey flowing from the honeycombs. He called his pals, telling them what he had found and urging them to go to the bottom and collect some of it. He dived down the hole to get some honey before his companions came, and once he was at the bottom, he started feeding himself that honey. The honey was pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kinyarwanda Kinyarwanda, Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is spoken in Rwanda and adjacent parts of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda (where there is a dialect known as Rufumbira or Urufumbira) and Tanzania. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native hearing population of Rwanda. The mutually intelligible Kirundi dialect is the national language of neighbouring Burundi. Kinyabwishya and Kinyamulenge are mutually intelligible dialects spoken in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces of neighbouring DR Congo. In 2010, the Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture (RALC) was established to help promote and sustain Kinyarwanda. The organization attempted an orthographic reform in 2014, but it was met with pushback due to their perceived top-down and political nature, among other reasons. Geographic distribution Kinyarwanda is spoken in Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of a thousand hills", with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. Rwanda has a population of over 12.6 million living on of land, and is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the fifth most densely populated country in the world. One million people live in the Capital city, capital and largest city Kigali. Hunter-gatherers settled the territory in the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Karongi District Karongi is a district (''akarere'') in Western Province, Rwanda. The capital being Rubengera, the district also contains Kibuye, the provincial capital and a major Rwandan lakeside resort. It is one of the districts with the least population density of as of 2012 census. Tourism Tourism is one of the main economic sectors of Karongi. Karongi's location near Lake Kivu, the beautiful scenery and its many islands are the main draws. There are many resort and hotels which have been built recently outside the town of Kibuye, most on the shores of Lake Kivu. One of the most popular islands to visit in Karongi is Napoleon Island; a large island which is popular for hiking and for viewing one of Africa's largest colonies of straw colored fruit bats which resides on the Island. Other islands in Karongi are Monkey Island which has a small population of vervet monkeys and Amahoro or Peace Island which used to have a camping site. Night fishing is another popular pastime in Karongi. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ndaba Rock Ndaba Rocks, commonly known in Kinyarwanda as "Urutare rwa Ndaba," is one of Rwanda's most intriguing cultural and historic tourism places. Ndaba Rocks and Waterfalls is one of Karongi District, Karongi district's most popular tourist attractions, not only because of its beauty but also because of the mythical history that surrounds it. Mythical stories around Ndaba rock It is assumed that before the dawn of civilization, a well-known "Ndaba" resided in the forest surrounding the rock and hunted for a time. While out hunting for wild game and honey with his pals, he came across a rock with a large bees hole. He went to the hole because he was curious and ambitious, and he saw a lot of honey flowing from the honeycombs. He called his pals, telling them what he had found and urging them to go to the bottom and collect some of it. He dived down the hole to get some honey before his companions came, and once he was at the bottom, he started feeding himself that honey. The honey was pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Landforms Of Rwanda A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]