Cyangugu

Worth seeing in and around Cyangugu

One place 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
   Pont Ruzizi I

   The Pont Ruzizi I is a bridge in Bukavu which is one of the customs posts over the Ruzizi River between Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cyangugu in Rwanda. The bridge was first built in 1935 and later destroyed to be rebuilt in 1974 in metal and wood (Bailey bridge with a capacity to support only lower weight vehicles or carrying less than 3 tonnes.

   1.8 km · Bridge in Democratic Republic of Congo · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cyangugu

Airports

Goma (GOM), 98 km · Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye (BJM), 104 km · Kigali (KGL), 148 km

Stations

Kamembe Airport, 2.5 km

• Kigali → Cyangugu

  141 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · RF10,100–13,500
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• Goma → Cyangugu

  97 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $17–23
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• Bujumbura → Cyangugu

  112 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cyangugu

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 Cyangugu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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