Spend a couple of days in Kigali before heading off to the jungles and trekking safaris of Rwanda and you’ll be rewarded with warm hospitality, extraordinary museums, shopping, a buzzing nightlife and amazing restaurants and hotels in one of the most beautiful cities in Africa.

Rwanda, known as the ‘land of a thousand hills’, will forever be remembered for the ethnic genocide which led to the murder of over 800 000 Tutsi, Twa and moderate Hutu between April and July 1994. Learn more about Rwanda’s past at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, opened in 2004 as both a museum documenting the events of the genocide and as a memorial to the more than 250 000 victims buried there. Pay your respects in the peaceful memorial garden before setting off to explore Kigali – and marvel in the hope, energy and charm of a city which has come so far.