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The Red Rocks Cultural Centre and Campsite is almost 100 km from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and is located in the Northern province, close to Nyakinama, a village of 300 inhabitants. It is so far the only place, together with a recently installed guest house near the of Kigali, to offer a range of accommodation options – from family size tents to traditionally built bungalows, and many communal areas, indoors and outdoors – but activities with community members can be carried out in any of the three centres.
These hubs create a physical space in which opportunities for enriching encounters are established for tourists and locals as well.
These are the natural benefits of CBT’s experiential activities. However, in all the hubs the benefits go beyond the home stay or the local walking tours and the visit to the local market. Here there is more time and space for those valuable unplanned encounters.
In the vast campsite, tourists are completely immersed in a vibrant local atmosphere of familiarity and closeness. Social boundaries disappear, and the act of learning together brings up the humanity of the process to the people involved.
So, it is not strange that while drinking a locally brewed banana beer, some drums start playing, a voice starts singing, and bodies start moving.
Stefan Pettersson
Thank you so much for an interesting story and I think the key to a sustainable development in balance is to create local communities there women can meet and together become stronger. A really positive project. Congratulations /Stefan Pettersson Gameng Connect