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Every photograph on this site is a real image of Rwanda, used under a Creative Commons license. Images were downloaded and optimized (resized and compressed) for the web; each remains under its original license, credited below.

Rolling green terraced hills receding into the distance in western Rwanda, the Land of a Thousand Hills.

A thousand hills, western Rwanda

Photo by Doltography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Homepage hero, route planning

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The downtown skyline of Kigali, Rwanda, with modern mid-rise towers above the city hills.

Kigali skyline

Photo by Honeybarger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Airport pickup, Kigali destination, travel basics

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Muhabura and Gahinga volcanoes rising above green farmland at sunrise near Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

Muhabura and Gahinga in the morning

Photo by Adygrafix250, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Volcanoes National Park, Kigali to Musanze

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

A mother mountain gorilla cradling her infant in the green vegetation of Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

Mother and baby mountain gorillas, Volcanoes National Park

Photo by Carine06, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Gorilla trekking transport

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Akagera National Park

Photo by Emery045, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Akagera safari transport, Akagera destination

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Soft sunrise light over the calm water and hilly islands of Lake Kivu at Kibuye (Karongi), Rwanda.

Sunrise over Lake Kivu, Kibuye (Karongi)

Photo by Baloona, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Lake Kivu transport, Lake Kivu destination

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

A suspended canopy walkway stretching high over the dense montane rainforest of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda.

Nyungwe canopy walk

Photo by Alex Niragira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Used on: Nyungwe transfers, Nyungwe destination

Source on Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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