Gisenyi Hot Springs Rwanda

Gisenyi, now part of the city of Rubavu on the northwestern shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda's Western Province, is a lakeside resort city set beneath the active Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira volcanoes of the Virunga volcanic chain, whose dramatic eruptions periodically illuminate the lake waters at night with their lava glow across the Congolese border. The Gisenyi Hot Springs draw on sodium and bicarbonate geothermal waters from the volcanic activity of the East African Rift Valley and the Virunga volcano system, providing warm therapeutic pools along the shores of Lake Kivu, one of Africa's Great Lakes, in a setting of extraordinary volcanic and lacustrine beauty. The mountain gorilla trekking of nearby Volcanoes National Park, the lake canoe excursions to Idjwi Island, and the remarkable story of Rwanda's post-genocide reconciliation and national development make Gisenyi a profoundly moving destination for thermal spa visitors in the African Great Lakes region.