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Rwandan Village Experience: Culture & Cuisine
4.8
9 Ratings
Kigali
Immerse yourself in Rwandan culture with a family home experience. Enjoy traditional cuisine, village walks, and a cultural performance. Choose from activities like traditional dance, coffee preparation, hiking, and more.
Immerse yourself in Rwandan culture with a family home experience. Enjoy traditional cuisine, village walks, and a cultural performance. Choose from activities like traditional dance, coffee preparation, hiking, and more.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Kigali - The cultural attractions and rituals we provide access to are, among others: basket weaving, cow milking, traditional arching, bee keeping, banana beer production, farming, Local Plant taxonomy, traditional dancing, drumming, storytelling, and village walks. We take you to learn about preparing and enjoying local food. After Meal time,…
- Kigali - The cultural attractions and rituals we provide access to are, among others: basket weaving, cow milking, traditional arching, bee keeping, banana beer production, farming, Local Plant taxonomy, traditional dancing, drumming, storytelling, and village walks. We take you to learn about preparing and enjoying local food. After Meal time, listen to stories and experience life from Rwandan villages. Smashing bananas, and grinding sorghum grain on a grinding stone will be a part of experience. At the end, enjoy some delicious banana beer with the local people! Experience many days in the life of Rwandan family, waking up early to feed the animals followed by planting or harvesting local crops. After a work-filled morning, enjoy relaxing with the family with a snack in the shade. Due to a limited time, A day trip highlights some of activities of your interest because we do not guarantee you to do all listed activities. However, we advise our Guests to book for many days to Maximize this.
What's Included
- Transport
- Guiding fees
- Entrance permit
- Lunch
- Bottled water
- Carbonated beverages
- Price varies by Group Size
- Transport
- Guiding fees
- Entrance permit
- Lunch
- Bottled water
- Carbonated beverages
- Price varies by Group Size
What's Not Included
- Personal expenses and other snacks not indicated in the Package
- Personal expenses and other snacks not indicated in the Package
Additional Information
Take advantage of this chance to spend a day with a Rwandan family, where you can learn about, prepare, and savor local cuisine. Listen to stories and immerse yourself in the life of a Rwandan village. Among the three main activities, you can choose some highlights:
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HOME HOST ACTIVITIES:
- Experience traditional dance and drumming
- Engage in…
Take advantage of this chance to spend a day with a Rwandan family, where you can learn about, prepare, and savor local cuisine. Listen to stories and immerse yourself in the life of a Rwandan village. Among the three main activities, you can choose some highlights:
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HOME HOST ACTIVITIES:
- Experience traditional dance and drumming
- Engage in traditional cuisine by preparing and cooking food served on traditional tools like imbehe and inkoko, followed by tasting
- Discover local medicinal plants used for healing illnesses
- Enjoy a village walk, meeting and interacting with local people
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AGRO TOURISM ACTIVITIES:
- Participate in a banana beer brewing experience, from banana plantation to juice making, fermentation, and beer tasting
- Learn about coffee preparation, from plantation to cup
- Experience traditional cattle, cows, and milking
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ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES:
- Choose between hard, high, or medium elevation hiking on Mount Jali, enjoying the landscape view with binoculars and hiking sticks
- Take a village walk, meeting and interacting with the local community
- Enjoy camping
- Bring Water, heavy snacks, sugar content drinks, A rain coat in case of rain period , hiking shoes.
- Covid19 Test is not required( not recommended)
- No need for Covid 19 Test
Location
Kigali
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(9 Ratings)
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Shigetsus2023
Nov 7, 2025
Good Tour - Tour guides were friendly and it was great to see a village. The tour was a little shorter than what I was told but overall great.
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Arabelleo2024
Aug 26, 2024
Fun and Educational Experience - This tour was a wonderful experience and very educational. My guide, Serge, was friendly, knowledgeable, and easy to get along with. He made sure I was taken care of and comfortable throughout the day. The village community we visited was welcoming and I learned a lot! I especially enjoyed watching the dance troupe and learning how local women weave baskets. If you are travelling through Kigali, you need to do this tour!!
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T9194dnemilyg
Aug 15, 2023
Rwanda Community Tour - Our Community Experience Tour was great! If you visit Rwanda, you should have this experience. Our guide, Serge, was clearly familiar with the village we visited. There was no uncomfortable sense of voyeurism. We started with a survey of local cottage industries which were notable for their particular skills. We also purchased some of their products...huge win! We then roasted our own local coffee and sweetened it with local honey. We enjoyed a dance from the local dance troupe...so much fun! Finally, we cooked some food in the local style and enjoyed a meal of local cuisine and banana beer. (We enjoyed the banana beer...we'll try to get some once we get home.) This was a great experience and very rewarding to learn the local culture.
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Wanderer48582959971
Aug 5, 2023
Rich rural experience - Today's Kigali Rural Tour
Three outstanding cultural interpreters
Cross-use French, English, and Rwanda
To me, a traveler in a foreign land
Describe how unique the country’s culture is
Serge placid
lvan
Ferdinand
Thanks to them for allowing me to experience
Coffee making, country walks, traditional food, community dancing
Being a Rwandan living in a rural area
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Muhammadarif_r
Jul 26, 2023
Countryside Tour in Rwanda - It was wonderful experience. I got to opportunity to explore the real Rwanda. I observed the local culture, food, dance and many more. The tour guide was so good. It was real value for my money.
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Sergen640
Jun 17, 2023
Amazing - The hike was awesome, Mr Serge is the best tour guide I’ve seen so far, I all recommend RwagasaboSafaritour company, Thx
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Joyeusen2023
May 30, 2023
Hike was Amazing - We had Mt Jali Hike with Rwagasabo safaris but it was so fantastic. Hike was in Group we meet new people and local people.
We had local food & we experience same material Rwandan citizens used in Long year ago. This Hike it was so amazing. After Hike we taken Lunch that was prepared in traditional style
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Adam
Feb 23, 2025
Chill village visit, nice to get out of the city - I was picked up at my hotel by a taxi driver who took me about 45 minutes outside of Kigali. There I was meant by two guides and we walked through a village discussing farming, land, and culture in the village. We ended up at a privately owned Cultural center at the top of the village. It was relatively new and parts were still under construction. There we had coffee, visited a replica traditional house, and they showed some traditional tools. We then peeled root vegetables and cooked them for lunch over a charcoal fire. They also served locally made banana beer/wine. It was very chill, we mostly sat around waiting for the tubers to cook. The guides were knowledgeable, but mostly responded to my questions rather than initiating stories . So this is a good tour for someone who is interested in learning about village culture and doesn’t mind being a little assertive in asking questions and asking to see things.
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Jonathon_c
Feb 21, 2024
Good tour of a local village - Serge was a great guide, but I think it's overpriced for what's included. However, I'd still recommend it, the drumming lesson was definitely a highlight of my trip.
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