After settling into the luxury of the hotel, we then attempted to meet up with Andrew. We couldn't remember exactly what time his flight got in so we called down to reception a few times to see if he had arrived. At 8:30pm we finally found out he was there and tried to call his room from reception. Whilst we were waiting for him to pick up he arrived at reception in person. It turned out he hadn't looked for us as the tour company he had booked the trip with thought we were arriving at the airport and had driven there to pick us up. They even had an arrival time for us of 9:30pm which is quite impressive as we were coming overland.
After a sumptuous dinner, we headed off for bed (which had been turned down for us!).The next day we visited the genocide memorial, which was incredibly moving and deeply disturbing. There were very moving stories, skulls, bones, pictures and videos. They also had a very good exhibit detailing a few of the other genocides that have occured to drive home the point that this is not a one of occurance in one country but something human beings repeatedly do to each other and we need to learn how to prevent. The genocide has definitely not been forgotten here with motorcycle taxi drivers jackets bearing messages regarding it, and frequent messages seen along roadsides and in country towns. There is a definite feeling of Rwanda defined before the genocide and post the genocide.
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