Hello, Burundi!
The plane stayed on the ground for half an hour to offload some passengers and upload some additional passengers. We stayed in the plane. So I didn’t touch the ground, even though I was in the country.
Even though I have never been in the country before. I do know someone there: the wife and son of a friend from Burundi. Burundi is also closely related to Rwanda, a county deep in my heart. It is populated by the same two tribes: Hutus and Tutsis as in Rwanda, and shares similar tensions.
Bujumbura was the capital of Burundi until very recently, when the capital was moved to Gitega in December 2018.
When the plane took off, it flew over a community where houses seemed small and closely packed. It reminds me of other African countries such as Rwanda.
It then passed over a waterfront community.
There are a number of hotels and restaurants right on the waterfront. Here the compounds seem spacious. It is obvious this is where the rich go.
We were then over the open waters of Lake Tanganyika. It is the second largest as well as the second deepest freshwater lake in the world. It seemed to disappear in the distance.
Goodbye Burundi!
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