Nyanza

Nyanza is a city. That’s at least how I would call it. One of the locals told me – a neighbour of Florians – that they only see Kigali and Muhanga as real citys and rather refer to Nyanza as a town.
Nyanza is quiete big, but only because it is so spread out. In Rwanda in general you won’t find a place where no people live or work or the land is used, unless you are hiking up the national parks to the top or something.

Nyanza is the same, so the city center consists of a few streets that are very busy. In the middle is a massive market hall (I will add pictures later), where you can find almost everything (if you know where to look).
Theres Food, Fabrics, Shoes, Clothes, little convenience niches.. the list goes on and on.

If you leave the city center, you can immediately walk on paths in between fields of green, everywhere people greeting or staring (if you are a Muzungu (white person) like me)

Approx. 10 minutes walk from the city center.

I’ve been to the center of Nyanza a few times now, but I am still not ready to go there alone.
The market is massive. So so massive and busy. It simply is overwhelming trying to orientate myself.
Even today, the forth time I went to the market, I had a list with a lot of things I wanted to buy and ended up going home with not even half of it.
I wanted to buy vegetables, more basic food like potatoes and pasta, sauce, fruit, and cleaning supplies and the only things I managed to buy were the fruit.
But my bag was full anyway! Because you get so much for so little and I was very excited about the fruit.

Although I have to admit that I got ripped off by one lady (or failed at bargaining in kinyarwanda).
1000 Francs (1€) for a Kilogramme of that delicious I-don’t-know-what-it-is-fruit. I know that it only is 300 Francs (30ct) at most but in that moment I was so stressed trying to understand and speak kinyarwanda as well as buy anything, I just payed her and let her to laugh about me with her friend.

Anyways, Nyanza is very beautiful. In the pictures above you can see a little bit how green and hilly it is everywhere.
No matter where you are, you will probably have a great view everywhere you walk, because you either are looking down a mountain or at a mountain, but most of the time it’s both.