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Visit Iby Iwacu Cultural on Your Tour to Rwandan-Culture

December 15, 2016
Visit Iby Iwacu Cultural on Your Tour to Rwandan-Culture

Visit Iby Iwacu Cultural on Your Tour to Rwandan-Culture, Iby Iwacu cultural village is located close to Volcanoes National Park in Musanze district Kinigi area where gorilla tracking is done, Iby Iwacu means Treasures of our Home and Heritage, here visitors having hands-on cultural experiences that for many are most wonderful.

Visit Iby Iwacu Cultural on Your Tour to Rwandan-Culture, this cultural village was started with the intention to harmonize conservation and local community needs. Since poverty is the root cause of poaching in most African destinations, this gives an alternative to benefit the community boarding with the national park and stops them from hunting down wildlife was highly sought of Creating a cultural village helped to highlight the significance of tourism to the life of a local community member.

Understanding  the local community was mobilized into a cultural village and empowered, supporting projects and tap the tourism resources by exhibiting their rich culture which is highly venerated by tourists and other visitors

This cultural village was also to act as a preservation means for the Rwandan culture as most youths were ignoring important cultural values and norms.

Visit Iby Iwacu Cultural on Your Tour to Rwandan-Culture, after gorilla tracking in Rwanda Iby Iwacu cultural village is the best place to hide and relaxing your mind, the hospitality of the locals is mesmerizing as your presence will be of great pleasure to the community members who will share with you and showcase the details of their past history.
This cultural village displays a traditional lifestyle of a Rwandan including dress code, food growing, processing and preparation, their wedding traditional ceremonies, and interpersonal relationship within the community.

A visit to Iby Iwacu cultural village will leave you with a clear picture of how Africa and Rwanda, in particular, is sumptuously endowed in culture

Go for a guided walk through Rwanda villages which will reward you with an unusual and unforgettable experience as you visit different sites of Rwanda, Visiting the king’s house and listening to all the Kings’ stories and meaning of all items in his house graced with the theatrical ceremony of enthroning you as the king by the village elder, will give you nothing but a flavor and immense experience of a real African royal for that short time, enjoy different types of traditional dances performed by community members like Intore dance and Ibyivugo using local and traditional musical instruments, please take some time to listen to the famous songs of the gorillas sang by the famous Ngayabatema as you sit back and meditate upon the conservation evolution of this endangered ape in the Volcano park

Also visit Rwanda’s traditional healer as he lays before you the different plant species and their medicinal significance to the locals from time immemorial, in his traditional clinic the Doctor will demonstrate to you the prescription of those medicines, and tasting one will be at your own will.

Tourists/visitors are allowed to participate in the day to day activities of a Rwandan tradition in order to get the real touch of being a true Rwandan. Activities like the cultivation of crops, millet grinding using local grinding stones, and preparation of traditional dishes like Ubugari and Igikoma while being helped by local women, will definitely give you a sense of belonging in this rustic community.

Visit and experience the local beer-making process at a local brewery as the ‘fan makers’ take you through the traditional methods of making the local beer out of bananas, feel free to taste when it is ready, please do not hold back your cultural norms but rather share them with your hosts as this may bring a perfect understanding of one another and may bring out some similarity between both cultures.

Don’t miss out on visiting the Batwa people were the original people of the forest of Rwanda, were hunters and gatherers who lived in the forest leaving a small ecological footprint, were evicted by the government when the national parks were established and many of them became poachers, they will teach you how they used to hunt and gather and show you how to shoot a bow and arrow, it is very interesting there is also the pottery making today and women making crafts of all kind in Rwanda.

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