Rusizi District
Rusizi is a district in Western Province, Rwanda.
Rusizi is a district in Western Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Kamembe, the major city of the Rwandan south-west and the district contains large parts of the former Cyangugu Province.
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Worth seeing in and around Rusizi District
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.
- 01Pont 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 km · Bridge in Democratic Republic of Congo · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rusizi District
- Airports
- Goma (GOM), 98 km · Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye (BJM), 105 km · Kigali (KGL), 149 km
- Stations
- Kamembe Airport, 2.7 km
- Goma → Rusizi District98 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · $20–27
- Kisangani → Rusizi District561 km · quickest by road, 18h 36m · $60–85
- Bujumbura → Rusizi District94 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rusizi District
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 Rusizi District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are regular buses and minibuses to Butare and Kigali in Rwanda.
From Wikivoyage: Cyangugu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-06.
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Next door to Rusizi District
Rusizi District is 6 km from Bukavu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bukavuprovincial capital and city in South Kivu, DR Congo3.8 km