This wooden boat is at the posh end of the boat scale in Rwanda. It is made of pieces of wood tightly fastened together and sealed. These guys were rowing against a fast flowing current upstream, but they still managed to ask us for "amafaranga" ie money. The best one I have heard is someone who swam up to Hayley while she was swimming in the lake and asked her for some money!

Many of the ordinary fishing boats that you see are simply a large tree trunk which has been hollowed out and they are really unstable. That is the Congo on the bank at the other side!