As our airplane nosed toward Kigali airport, I caught my first glimpse of Rwanda through the clouds. Gentle rolling hills carpeted in green and laced by blue lakes. Afterward, driving through Rwanda toward the Congo border, I caught flashes of bucolic countryside. I was expecting Africa’s Great Lakes to be beautiful, I didn’t expect it to be jaw-dropping. But it is. And one day, hopefully, it’ll get the income from tourism that it deserves. #Goma

-Sruthi Gottipati