Bujumbura - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
Home for me is the Northeast U.S. Ghere are a few options to get back and forth, but the most reasonably priced journeys begin in NYC or DC. I usually take the route between NYC/DC – Addis Ababa – Bujumbura (you’ll probably spend a lot of time in Addis if you live in East or Central Africa, given the prominence of and investment into Ethiopian Airlines). There is also a less frequent, one-stop trip through Brussels, and a fairly new direct flight between NYC and Nairobi that opens up some options for the area. There are also some definitely longer but possibly cheaper routes through the Middle East, where you’ll swap into one of the older planes in the Emirates/Qatari fleet before shuttling down to the Great Lakes region. As of summer 2023 Bujumbura has direct flights to Kigali, Nairobi, Addis, Kigoma/Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, and Brussels. - Aug 2023
I hail from the middle of the USA in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. That means I travel to the eastern seaboard - usually DC or Atlanta, and then onward to Europe. For Burundi that's Brussels if I can get the routing and then down to Buj. Otherwise one can go through Addis Ababa, but I have avoided that thus far. It's a loooong time to travel. Two days in reality. Take the time to rest-stop to give your body a break midway, trust me, your legs will thank me. - Mar 2021
Washington, DC, USA. Travel to post from Washington varies depending on the route. U.S. staff generally take the Brussels Airlines flight from Dulles, connecting with one stop in Brussels to Bujumbura on Sundays. There are other routings through Amsterdam and Nairobi, as well as thorough Addis Ababa, with daily flights. - Nov 2017
Washington, DC. About 22 hours to post, connections in Brussels, Amsterdam/Nairobi, or Addis. - Aug 2015
