Rutovu

Rutovu is a ridge village in the southern hills that carries Burundi's best known landmark, a small stone pyramid built by the German explorer Burkhart Waldecker over a spring at Gasumo. The water from it runs into the Ruvyironza, then the Ruvubu and the Kagera, and reaches the Nile through Lake Victoria, which makes this the southernmost headstream of the whole basin rather than the source of the Nile. The stream itself is a trickle a walker steps across. What is worth the drive is the ridge, standing on the divide between the Congo and Nile watersheds with tea estates below.