National Museums At Butare

Butare is one of the unique places considered to be the largest and important city prior to 1965.It is 135km North of Kigali. The intellectual and cultural centre are found here in  this city and being a centre point of the National Museum centered point for a night stop towards Nunguwe primate National park. A combined tour will include visiting the superb National Museum which houses the best ethnographic collection in East Africa absorbing displays of traditional art crafts illustrated by a fascinating selection of century monochrome photographs, providing insight not only into pre-colonial life styles but also into the development of Rwanda as a modern Africa State. Significantly, one should not miss out visiting Nyabisindu,formally known as Nyanza, the Impressive Royal Palace at Nyanza, an enormous domed construction made entirely with traditional materials, was not touched during 1994 genocide and has been restored to its 19^th century state.