Explore the beauty of Rwanda beyond the mountain gorillas

In the district of musanze is the famous volcanoes national park, a home to thousands of mountain gorilla which are the biggest attractions that the country has got and so earning them large sums of income.  Gorillas safaris might be the countries priority , however, there are also so many other attraction that have been less attended to but would earn the country a lot of money like, just about a five-minute walk from Musanze bus station, below a steep escarpment with dense vegetative cover which is so dense with tree canopy and green cover around that, it appears like virgin forest when seen from the bus park.

 Around that same location is an art and craft dealership, or a cultural artifact center, countless paintings on canvass, wood carvings, tribal masks and cultural paraphernalia neatly displayed at every nook and cranny, every wall, tree trunk and stump some where along which you can also have as souvenirs. This explains why this place has become a melting pot for local artists who also earn a living from the sale of such stuff to tourists.

Greg Bakunzi a tour operator in the region says earlier there was some subsistence farming going on, mostly growing of sweet potatoes but besides that it was just a forest and nobody lived there. Bakunzi has done some cultural tourism projects with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, a mountain gorilla conservation project. Rwanda is blessed with very rich cultures with different dress codes, music and dance, beliefs and life styles thus a very interesting cultural safari you can expect and forget about the gorillas for a while.