Welcome to the Land of a Thousand Hills and a Million Smiles – Rwanda
The Pilgrimage to our Lady of Kibeho begins when you Arrive at Kigali International Airport (for internationals from Africa, Europe, Asia and world-wide) and are here received knowledgeable Catholic Driver-Guide then commerce to your pilgrimage to Kibeho. For Road transportation, we check out and in at the boarder Katuna. Activities for the day Depend on your arrival time in Rwanda. Flights arrive at different hours which does not allow for a tour of Kigali. If you, however, arrive earlier we will adjust the itinerary to show that.

We take a 15-minute drive into Kigali and check into Hotel – also known as Hotel Rwanda – the hotel with a lot of history in Kigali.
A 4 Star Hotel with a beautiful garden, swimming pool, fabulous restaurant, poolside bar and a place where you can get snacks of all kinds including Rwanda’s famous Goat Brochettes, you can also have beef or chicken and dinner.
They come with bath, TV, WiFi, and other amenities to make you feel at home.
Meal Plan: Breakfast

Breakfast at Hotel, which you will enjoy and we head for Butare which is now called Huye – the town is the educational center of Rwanda and not only includes the National University of Rwanda but has a Catholic University and the largest Catholic Cathedral in Rwanda and was built in the 1930’s in memory of the Belgian Princess Astrid.
While visiting Kibeho for our pilgrimage we will stay overnight at Butare’s best hotel.
We will have an early lunch here and then proceed to Kibeho which is a short distance from Butare on a dirt road – you will notice once again the beautiful scenery on the way to the Basilica at Kibeho which is named “Our Lady of Sorrow” and the shrine of “Our Lady of Kibeho.”

We visit the church which was built according to instructions given in the vision.Take your time in the church and include a visit to the Genocide Memorial – you can also spend some time outside the statue is of “the Lady of Kibeho.”

We then continue to Nyarushishi Hill to see the large bronze statue of Christ, called, Divine Mercy Statue. The Statue came from the Chicago area in the USA.
The Divine Mercy Statue of Christ made its way to Rwanda where since 2004 it has graced the top of Nyarushishi Hill and has been a blessing to Rwandans and to visitors from afar who come here on a spiritual pilgrimage such as yourself.

We return to Butare/ or stay at the hotel in Kibeho for dinner.

Breakfast and we depart with a packed lunch and plenty of bottled water we head back to Kibeho spending the day attending the apparition for the day.

Nathalie Mukamazimpaka one of the original visionaries at Kibeho resides on the grounds of the Kibeho Church – across from the dorm where she lived when she was a student. During the 1994 Genocide, she fled into what was then Zaire to seek refuge, returning in 1996 when the Benebikira Sisters had just come back to Kibeho and reopened their convent, the school, and the health center.

Today she most often greets visitors to Kibeho and assists them in any way possible to make pilgrims to the church and shrine most comfortable. This is the only Marian Shrine in Africa and Nathalie Mukamazimpaka has dedicated her life to prayer at the church and shrine of “Our Lady of Kibeho.

Standard program for pilgrims at Kibeho

9:30 am– Arrival at Kibeho
10 am – Spiritual Talk on the message of Kibeho
11 am – Confession
12 am – Holy Mass

Afternoon meeting with Nathalie Mukamazimpaka one of the three visionaries whose visions by the Vatican
Return to Butare or stay at the hotel in Kibeho and stay overnight and Dinner

Breakfast and we depart for Kigali – a three-hour journey or less.

Lunch at one of Kigali’s famous Bourbon Coffee restaurants which is simply a delightful place and should you live in Washington DC, Boston, or New York you can get a taste of Rwanda at one of their restaurants.
Afternoon – a meaningful visit to one of Rwanda’s Sacred places – the Gisozi Genocide Memorial where 250,000 victims of the Genocide are interned, Ruhango -Divine Mercy centre in Rwanda – there.