Nyanza

Nyanza was the seat of the Rwandan monarchy until the kingdom ended, and the hill above the town still carries its court. The reconstructed royal palace is a great domed house of woven reed and thatch, built the way it stood before the colonial period, and the herd of inyambo cattle kept beside it is the reason most people come. These animals have horns more than a metre long and are led out by herders who sing to them. Below the hill stands the modern palace built for King Mutara the Third, which holds a museum now, and the royal tombs sit on Mwima.