Full Day Dark Tourism and Kigali City Tour

Overview

This thought-provoking tour offers a deep and reflective journey through Rwanda history, focusing on resilience, remembrance, and reconciliation. You will visit significant sites that shed light on the country’s past, including the Belgian Memorial, the Kigali Genocide Memorial and Archive Center, and the Ntarama and Nyamata Genocide Memorials, where you will learn about the tragic events of 1994 and honor the lives lost.

The experience also includes a visit to the Dancing Pot, showcasing the cultural heritage of Rwanda’s marginalized communities, and Testimonies Visits, where survivors share powerful stories of resilience. To conclude, students will engage in an interactive session, learning to weave peace baskets, a symbol of unity and hope for the future.

This emotional yet enlightening journey provides a deeper understanding of Rwanda past, its path to healing, and the strength of its people.

Highlights

Itineraries

Visit Belgian memorial

For kigali city tour experience we will visit The 10 stone columns you find here mark the spot where 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers were murdered on the first day of the genocide. Originally deployed to protect the home of moderate Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

The soldiers were captured, disarmed and brought here by the Presidential Guard before being killed. Each stone column represents one of the soldiers and the horizontal cuts in it represent the soldier’s age.

The bullet-sprayed building in which the soldiers died now houses a small exhibition on the genocide.

Visit Kigali Genocide memorial and Archive center

during Kigali city tour experience we will visit the biggest memorial center in the country, serves as an education center but also a burial place for approximately two hundred fifty nine Victims of the genocide, it teaches how the genocide was planned, executed and its consequences.

Afterward we will also visit the Archive center at memorial which serves as a research center; you find more information as well as many tools that were used in the genocide.

Visit the dancing pot

During kigali city tour experience – dark tourism , to visit This place is not about the genocide but instead a pottery.

This will help relaxing a bit as the whole after noon will be talking about the genocide clients experiences here how the pottery is done and how it is developing the Batwa (Indigents) lives. After we will have a lunch

Ntarama Genocide memorial visit

So as to maximize this kigali city tour experience we will also visit Ntarama which is one of six biggest genocide memorial sites in Rwanda. 5,000 people were killed here in a Catholic church.

Nyamata church visit

Nyamata church has been maintained well since 1994, complete with visible bullet holes and piles and piles of clothing taken from the bodies of those who perished while seeking refuge inside the sanctuary. We will learn more about this site which is located in few kilometers from Kigali.

Visit of the Testimonies

We wont end this Full Day Kigali City Tour experience – Dark Tourism without Visiting a unique center for reconciliation, you hear about testimonies of genocide survivors living with Forgiven Genocide criminals.

Students experiencing how to sew peace baskets

As client have spent time learning about the Genocide; we take this time as a fun time to learn how to make peace basket as part of relaxation.

But it’s a project of reconciliation, in African culture when people sit down doing a same work, it is considered as a sign of understanding each other, forgiving each other etc..

Ground transport
Service of an English-speaking driver-guide
Kigali city tour
Kigali Genocide memorial
All mentioned activities except for the optional ones
Soft drinks

Airfares & Rwanda Visa
Luxury drinks/Alcoholic drinks
Tips to local guides
Personal insurance and shopping

CONGO (DRC)

KENYA

TANZANIA

UGANDA