DAY 2: 28th July. Bujumbura(BU)

We wake up unusually late (08.00) due to the fact that we want to visit Bujumbura. Tomorrow African Cowboy will be going back to Kigali and we want to rest and visit some parts of Bujumbura.

After a surprising breakfast in l’Hotel de l’Amitie, we get lost for a while in Bujumbura city centre. Pilipili lover tries to find the flag of Burundi and makes everybody to look for him, unfortunately is Sunday and all shops are closed.

Time to go to, as the guides say, the most hilarious ZOO, the one in Bujumbura. We reach the ZOO with our friend Emmanuel, who guides us through the city.  Just right after the entrance we discover 3 walled spaces where they hide 3 Nile cocodriles. First surprise is that the guide coming with us offers us to feed them with guinea-pigs or rabbits. Second event becomes even more surprising, the biggest cocodriles can be visited inside its cages. We suddenly find ourselves watching a crazy guy (foreigner) who is pulling a 2 mt. cocodrile by its tail. We decide to accept the offer and feed the cocodrile. The GOPRO camera guives us another amazing moment, only VIP people will have access to the videos. Afterwards, time for a nice Chimpance, who plays with the collars and head ties of African Pirate and African Cowboy. We finally decide to define it the creepiest and most freaky ZOO ever seen when the dangerous snakes are taken out of the cages and left alone in the floor. We will probably never come back to this ZOO but we will talk about it for a long time.

Time to go to visit the TANGANYKA sand beaches of “non-salty” water. For this purpose we choose BORA-BORA, the place to be in BUJUMBURA. This is one of the most popular beach side-bars. When the music gets louder, the pro volleyball team finish their match and the sun is high, we start our match against ourselves and some locals and other visitors.  It becomes a good combination of cultures and languages in the same match. You can hear Spanish, local Kirundi and French, English and Catalan.

After some hours of watching the boats in the lake, the hour of Laughing Muzungu to change her nickname has arrived. She decides to rent a sailing boat in a nearby place and sail Tanganyka lake with two of us first and 3 later. She has become from now on the Captain Muzungu.

The sunset finds us saying goodbye to some local kids in the beach and, after stopping by the hotel, we have a delicious dinner composed of goat brochettes and PRIMUS beer. Tomorrow, time to focus on Swahili and Tanzania!!!