Visiting the Station
     The Lwiro station can be reached via Rwanda. There are numerous international flights into Kigali. One can also travel by land from Uganda, crossing through Rwanda. From Kigali, there is reasonably good paved road that goes to Cyangugu, Rwanda which lies on the southern shores of Lake Kivu, just across the Ruzizi river from Bukavu, D.R.C. Much of this road passes through heavily populated agricultural land with several major towns including Butare, sight of an important regional university. It also passes by the National Museum of Rwanda.
      For the last third of the trip, the road passes through Nyungwe forest, a spectacular piece of the eastern Albertine Rift. In ths forest, which is soon to be declared a national park,