Ruhengeri hotels collection

The white flowers grown on the slopes above Ruhengeri do not end up in bouquets: they are pyrethrum, dried before an insecticide is drawn from them. The town, renamed Musanze, spreads out at the foot of the Virunga volcanoes, whose lava flows left a long basalt tunnel at its gates, where bats roost. Higher up, the black earth gives way to bamboo, then to hagenia trees hung with moss. Between Karisimbi and Bisoke, the mountain gorillas come down to the bamboo in the rainy season to feed on the young shoots.