{"id":702,"date":"2013-02-19T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:16:15","slug":"day-7-nyakhanazi-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2013\/02\/day-7-nyakhanazi-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 7  Nyakhanazi &#8211; Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We headed out of Tanzania and crossed into Rwanda \u2013 one of the most fascinating countries I\u2019ve ever visited.  Even the border crossing is scenic with a river and small waterfall which was gushing from the recent rains.  In this, the  \u2018land of a thousand hills\u2019, we make our way towards the capital city, taking in the stunning scenery as we wind up and down dramatic hills!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Restaurantb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-706\" title=\"Restaurantb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Restaurantb-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Restaurantb-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Restaurantb.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In Kigali we picked up more passengers and enjoyed making new friends before heading out to dinner in the city.  We went to &#8220;Republika&#8221; which is a great restaurant with an African theme and African food which overlooks the lit up city skyline.   Everyone commented how surprised they were by Kigali, it is a clean and organised city with a really chilled out vibe, so very different to many other Africa cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed out of Tanzania and crossed into Rwanda \u2013 one of the most fascinating countries I\u2019ve ever visited. Even the border crossing is scenic with a river and small waterfall which was gushing from the recent rains. In this, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2013\/02\/day-7-nyakhanazi-kigali\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[295,296,40,297,19,151,143,149],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-feb-2013-east-africa-encounter-on-sparky-leanne","tag-land-of-a-thousand-hills","tag-republika","tag-absolute-africa","tag-africa-cities","tag-african-holiday","tag-kigali","tag-nyakhanazi","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}