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Bukavu

Bukavu
Bukavu · Fabien Bukuze (CC0)
What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bukavu

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Université catholique de Bukavu

    Private university in the DRC

    9.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Our Lady of Peace Cathedral, Bukavu

    Church in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pont Ruzizi I

    Bridge in Democratic Republic of Congo

    5.6 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pont Ruzizi II

    Bridge in Democratic Republic of Congo

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stade de la Concorde

    Building in Democratic Republic of the Congo

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Université Evangélique en Afrique

    Private university in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    6 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bukavu

Airports
Goma (GOM), 102 km · Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye (BJM), 107 km · Kigali (KGL), 155 km
Stations
Kamembe Airport, 7.9 km
  • Goma → Bukavu
    100 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · $18–24
    GuideToday
  • Kisangani → Bukavu
    526 km · quickest by air, 9h 7m · $360–520
    GuideToday
  • Bujumbura → Bukavu
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $11–15
    GuideToday
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bukavu

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bukavu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere are taxis or mini-buses, Boda Boda (Motorcycle) that go different routes such as - Kadutu to Panzi Route which cost about 1000cdf(almost $0.5).

From Wikivoyage: Bukavu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    187 km
  2. 02
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    442 km
  3. 03
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    491 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,209 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,217 km

If you know how people move in Bukavu – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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