Rwanda's university town and cultural keeper
Butare
Butare (officially Huye) is Rwanda's intellectual capital, home of the national university and, above all, the Ethnographic Museum, widely rated the finest museum in East Africa. Its eight galleries walk through Rwandan …
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Butare (officially Huye) is Rwanda's intellectual capital, home of the national university and, above all, the Ethnographic Museum, widely rated the finest museum in East Africa. Its eight galleries walk through Rwandan life from geology to dance, with an unmatched collection of traditional crafts. Nearby Nyanza holds the reconstructed King's Palace with its regal inyambo long-horned cattle, completing a rich cultural day in the country's gentle southern hills.
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