Travel Guide Ngozi

Ngozi, the country's officially third urban centre after Bujumbura and Gitega, is the northern coffee capital nestled in the heart of the Buyenzi region. Like many other Burundian cities, it was established in colonial times as the administrative headquarters, in one of the country's most populated areas.With the creation of its diocese, it became a place of Christian religion in the colonial era, and has, like Gitega, a whole area occupied by the cathedral (the largest in the country with that of Bujumbura, but in red bricks, superb), and by religious dependencies, to the west of the city centre (north of the RN 6). But what makes the city unique is its highly developed commercial activities, linked to intensive production in the region, and its position as a cross-border and cross-border crossroads.A trading city. Ngozi belongs to one of the rural areas where the financial flows are the most important, especially at the time of the coffee campaign, and its trade with Bujumbura as with the neighbouring urban centres (Kayanza, Kirundo, Muyinga and even Gitega) and the neighbouring countries (Rwanda and Tanzania) has had a network of sellers, wholesalers and retailers.People from here, who are particularly hospitable and joviaux, are also very enterprising, and a simple visit to the central market gives an idea of the strength of economic life in the region. It must be said that this life has resumed, and has even been remarkably developed, much earlier than in other cities longer in the war. Indeed, if Ngozi suffered greatly in the early hours of civil and military conflict, it regained its calm from the late 1990 s and took advantage of the first of new projects and investments. Its affairées streets and the animation of its numerous cabarets testify today to its vitality.Ngozi today. This attractive and pleasant city to live (even though the market approaches are sometimes stressful) is quite suitable for a stop of several days, even though it does not offer all the cultural attractions that its alter urbi Gitega concentrates. Located at the top of a hill, at 1 800 m above sea level, it extends on both sides of its slopes and overlooks the beautiful valley of Nyacijima and the north of the Nkaka valley in the south.Its prosperous economy and its important regional role provide it with the assets of a large city, with commercial and banking services, sanitary reception facilities (hospital, health centre), educational (high schools, including a large Islamic, university) and religious (bishopric, women's and men's congregations, etc.). Furthermore, the city is ideally located for visiting the valley holdings or in the verified. From the centre you can make beautiful walks in a short time.