Kivu not only most beautiful of great lakes of Africa, is a unique large reservoir on all continent, not populated by crocodiles and hippopotamuses.
In waters of lake on depth from 350 up to 480 m in huge quantities the dissolved carbonic gas, methane and other substances contains. In superficial layers of these substances meets a little so for the person they are imperceptible. Nevertheless it is enough of them to not allow the harmful elementary to occupy lake Kivu.
The quantity of natural gases in Kivu gradually grows, as at the bottom of a waste hollow which borrows lake, the decaying fossils getting from the top layers have accumulated many. Their concentration speaks, on the one hand, huge hydrostatic pressure which is created with huge water thickness of deep lake, with another - stagnant character of deep waters which do not mix up with top. Stocks of methane reach here 50-60 billion м3, and the government of Rwanda assigns greater hopes for its use. Meanwhile the huge water gasholder supplies with fuel only located in Kisenii a brewery. But on methane Kivu the whole branches of the heavy industry could work. The government of Rwanda has addressed to neighboring countries with the offer to construct on the cooperative beginnings an interstate metal works where Rwandan methane could be used as an oxidizer.
The coast Kivu Rwandan seems where more beautifully Congolese. Woody mountains rising from water as though part, and between them in the east distances of savannas open.
Small coffee plantations the dark greens sharply contrast with allotments of peas and beans - the basic food of farmers - hootoo.
Here and there on coast the massive buildings of Catholic missions combined from a dark red brick tower; a cathedral, a number school, a hostel, hospital.

Kisenii - small Rwandan small town, a resort and the shopping center located on coast of lake Kivu.
We approach on lake from the north where last eruptions of a volcano burned out a wood and have covered the ground with the monotonous reservation grey tuffs. The heated lava has gone down in lake, has boiled its water па distance of 40 m from coast and has formed long deserted cape.
If not the bright sun, royal palm trees along coasts and flaring bright-red colors bougainvilleas at inputs in private residences Kivu it would be quite possible to accept for the Norwegian fjord. Each eruption of volcano Niragongo put forward new small peninsula or cape in lake, gave rise to new bays and gulfs, created whimsical outlines of its modern coastal lily.
Overgrown moistureloving woods of a rock break directly to transparent waters which, washing away soft tuffs, create freakish grottoes and caves. In the narrow gulfs deeply pressing mountains shaded from above by crones of trees, always easy, darkly and mysteriously. And on small islands - rocks solar patches of light start up cheerful hare, and the easy breeze breaks about them the waves, scattering diamonds splashes.
Living among mountains of east coast Kivu people of a tribe hoonde, every day observing as the sun sits down in red lake, have combined a legend. In it the sun spend the night in Kivu is spoken that. It warms up its bottom, and the fused ground mixs up with water, searches for an output. And then living under mountain to a floor a giant - demigod Gongo orders to spirits to open a muzzle of a volcano. « Then eruption begins, - assure hoonde.-And red light which in the evenings is visible above Niragongo, is gleam the sleeping sun ».

With human ant hill rustles and the market of Kigali potters about. Already nobody takes away at Rwandan the peasant its crop. And the market and now - an original mirror of economy of all country.
On wooden races are hanged out patterns motley chintz and cheap clothes. It sew in the street. Tailoring men are engaged.
Near to their “workshops”, it is direct on the ground, - multi-coloured plastic cups and plates, tiny pocket mirrors, handfuls of cigarettes, combs, a beads, copper bracelets. Hills of a peanut till 10-12 nutlets, an ear of corn which sell lay, having divided on two-rub parts, and bananas, bananas, the bananas filling air around of the market by a sickening sourish smell.
There and then, open-air, on banana leaves spread out by the ground and shabby mats, were placed African beer.  In huge, there is less meter in height, big-bellied pots ickibindi banana beer uruguagu foams. Who wishes to try this drink, buys a hollow stalk of a reed in the neighborhood, lowers it in a pot and, costing, sips beer. The price of this pleasure - all some fine coins.
On a capital market, as well as in a home market of the country as a whole, shortage of the foodstuffs is felt still. On the tiny fields peasants sow a little sorghum, string beans, peas, put yam, manioc. Their share in an agricultural production is huge: they give about 80 percent of food production. But all this is consumed by country families. Only few Africans living near to large settlements, deliver a small amount of products to the market. And it means, that the majority Rwandan still live a subsistence economy.
Colonial methods of familiarizing of the African village to monetary attitudes have not justified themselves. Till now the income per capita in Rwanda remains almost to the lowest in the world.

… The Road blocked by people, mainly women. From afar it seems, that at them fantastic hairdresses. But it appears, at women on heads or hand of bananas, or huge pots, or a sheaf of fire wood. The majority of people goes to small, but the noisy market that was stretched in lowland, in city centre.
Consider, that the market and has given rise to city Kigali. When in 1892 German Oscar Bauman the first of Europeans has reached these places, the city yet was not, and the market existed.
In 1907 German colonial authorities have created in the neighborhood with the market the headquarters, have constructed small settlement and have ordered to local residents to take to Kigali surpluses of products, an ivory and skins. For them gave pennies, and sometimes simply selected the goods. In a bourgeois German historiography this process of a robbery refers to « as the beginning of familiarizing of natives to monetary attitudes ».
On change to German colonizers send Belgian “trustees”. Kigali became the center of a colonial province. In its market the ivory has quickly disappeared: elephants have been consumed, capes from skins of the leopard - the indispensable order of soldiers - tootsi were gone, became a rarity inkangara - unique on the beauty and a subtlety of work wicker products from straw the papyrus: tiny boxes, kegs for storage of ornaments and huge vessels for a flour. At Rwandan women were not time to polish everyone straw, to choose from thousand hundred one golden shades, to weave them in complex figure, to invent on forms repeating one another. They should grow up па the tiny floor corn, sorghum, yam, bananas and to sell them in the market in Rolled. The obtained money gave authorities. Non-payment of the tax at the best was punished by prison. Quite often defaulters put in empty flanks from under black oil which put then па decaying coals.

The main thing that amazes in all Ruanda, is an abundance of people. Leave from capital on ten, fifty or even on hundred fifty kilometers (it is impossible further: will get in other country) - everywhere, lifting a red dust, you will be surrounded with a stream of barefoot people. Inhabitants of Ruanda joke: « Under everyone banana leaf at us the person sits. And in fact of bananas do beer uruguagu, enjoying by the big popularity. Bananas borrow the fifth part of our processable grounds. So understand, how many at us banana leaves. Hardly who can count up ».
But people have counted up. The population of tiny Uganda makes 4 million person, and in a year it increases па 3,3 percent. If this rate of a gain will be kept and in the future, considering occurrence in the country of medical institutions in 23 years the population will be doubled.
Already now Ruanda posesses in Africa a record on population density; 163 persons on 1 км2!
Only two percent of people live in cities and are not connected with the ground. Ruanda - the country possessing fertile volcanic soils, is located at the equator. Here it is possible to remove on three crops in a year.
It would seem, here there should be an edge of abundance, tropical paradise, where it is enough to african to shake a palm tree to be full and dressed. Whether but so it? Much should be gone through Ruanda to people.