Iby’Iwacu village is located within volcanoes National park in the north Province, Musanze district. A visit to Iby’Iwacu means sharing with local people home and heritage treasures including lifestyles, activities, artifacts and ways of living of local people cultural dances and drama.
Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village is committed at showcasing the ways of living, traditional lifestyles and dances to tourists representing the Kinyarwanda ways of life and their traditional culture and norms.
An interesting community guided walk offers one an opportunity to explorer a number of cultural sites and experience the daily ways of life of the local people within the society. Skilled cultural guides makes your cultural tour amazing by taking you to see the king’s house replica with all the houses interpretation of all parts and stories attached to this cultural treasure. Learn how one can become a king for some time while exercising king’s powers as presented to you by a village elder through a village ceremony.
While on your Iby’Iwacu cultural experience, you will enjoy various traditional dances like Intore dance and famous songs of the gorillas sang by the famous Ngayabatema while listening to the melody produced by traditional musical instruments including African drums. Interesting! Take time and compare the sweet tons of the birds hooting in the volcanoes national park tree canopies.
Learn about traditional medicine from a local traditional healer and get to know how medicinal trees, shrubs, and grass are used to cure local patients. Performance of traditional healers make it possible to witness the African traditional culture ways of life before the influence of western union.
Iby’Iwacu cultural experience in volcanoes national park give you a chance to explore Rwanda’s education by visiting local schools with the surround villages, during your Rwanda education exploration you can choose to be a teacher or a student.
Taste the cultural dishes in Rwanda and learn how these local dishes are prepared. This will make your culture experience awesome. Have dinner and lunch while listening to the local tales.
In addition to local foods, enjoy the banana brewery process and also taste the local banana beer making African a real dark content with unique local drinks. Discover the Batwa pottery making experience, lessons and engagement. Take part in daily life activities to get to know the local people, their culture, and their ways of living since the village is fascinating with a variety of cultural experience.
