Attended Soccer Game outside Kigali

We drove with the General Manager of Yusuf's soccer team, SEC, to Rwamagana, about 60 km to the east of Kigali last Sunday.  Very fertile farmland with lots of banana trees.  Rwamagana was settled by Arabs from Oman a long time ago.

Arriving in Rwamagana and having some African Tea at a local restaurant.  African Tea is a mellow blend of ginger, tea and hot milk.  We loved it!

Very fertile land in a valley east of Kigali.

Local dwellings along the smooth asphalt road which is maintained for transport of agricultural products.  (Lots of big trucks.)

A little cool that day but pleasant.

Old mosque in Rwamagana.  New mosque being built to the right.

Yusuf took this picture before his team played.  He is not registered to play yet.  This pitch was very poor using wood chips as line markers.  The police guard uses it for practice and one end had no turf only red clay which had turned to mud due to earlier rain.

Very athletic players with unique style of play.  They are Second Division in Rwanda.  Eight players were moved up recently to Division One so these boys are new playing together.

This was a field beside the soccer pitch.  The birds feeding on the ground are large crow-like creatures with a white band around the chest.  According to Wikimedia, it is a Pied Crow common in East, South and Equatorial Africa.  There's one that sit's often on top of our house at the back letting out several belches of  "CAAW" before it swoops off down over the golf course.  Much larger than Canadian crows...more like ravens with black bills.

Drove out from Rwamagana to a 'finger' lake, tourist area called Muhezi.  The boy on the left was biking on the country road and knew the General Manager.  That's Yusuf on the right.  I believe the green bushes on the left are newly planted macadamia trees.  There's a deep, narrow lake in the valley toward the left.  End of day and I heard a mosquito buzzing around my right ear.  Time to go home to Kigali!