from Rwanda to...?

If you are not into sketchy areas, then I do not think you want to head west from Rwanda into the DRC.

Heading south would be Tanzania, but the roads can be poor, especially when it is muddy.

What time of year are your going?

If you have not yet explored Uganda, then I would head that way for a few weeks, then into Kenya and fly out of Nairobi.

Peace,

BB

I would also recommend Uganda. The southwest region of Uganda is easily accessible from Rwanda and is quite beautiful with plenty of things to do.

Bujumbura/Lake Tanganyika, Burundi
Kigali, Rwanda
Lake Bunyoni, Uganda
Queen Elizabeth NP
Fort Portal
Kampala
Jinja (rafting)
Nairobi
Serengeti/ Ngorongoro crater
Zanzibar

All great info so far...Thanks for the suggestions. We will be traveling during the month of June and July.

Hi,

spoes mentioned Lake Tanganyika and I just want to say that of my five months of travelling in Southern and Eastern Africa Spring 2010, the boat trip on Lake Tanganyika is one of my best memories. From Rwanda you cross into Tanzania, spend a night in a little town called Nyakanazi and then get a bus to Kigoma on the shore of north Lake Tanganyika. That is if you don't want to cross through Burundi of course, not sure what the situation is there at the moment. Much easier if you can do that. The Liemba, an old German gunship now used as a passenger ferry, goes north to south and south to north once a week and a first class cabin wont's set you back too much. Can't remember exactly now.

The trip takes three days and at the end you hitch a ride with a truck to Sumbawanga and then from there you can take a bus to Mbeya (should take about 7-8 hours, took us 18 since our bus broke and the replacement took forever to turn up, but that's Africa for you) from where you can cross into Malawi, possibly my favourite country in Eastern/Southern Africa. Lake Malawi is stunning, travelling is easy, people are friendly and so on. Or you could head north and up to Zanzibar and back into Kenya perhaps.

A fair amount of faffing around in relatively boring towns in order to do the Lake Tanganyika trip but it is definitely worth it if you ask me!

Thanks klarita81, that is exactly the kind of 1st hand info I was looking for.

Hi, I did the "faffing around" in Northern Tanzanian towns on the way up to Rwanda and it was indeed worth it. But if you head North instead to Uganda then it is very easy to get to some amazing spots (listed by spoes above) without the faffing in a lot of hot dusty trucker towns. Kigali to Fort Portal via QENP (briefly) in a day on public transport was very easy. Loads to do around FP. Also very easy was the Cyanika border crossing and Kisoro and around were great. Uganda is my favourite SE African country but the rest are all amazing too!