Hôtel des Mille Collines

The Hôtel des Mille Collines is a large hotel in Kigali, the 1994, more than a thousand people offered refuge and thus the rescue from certain death during the genocide in Rwanda.

The history of the hotel and his former manager Paul Rusesabagina is told in the film Hotel Rwanda. It also serves as a venue in the Canadian Love Stories Drama A Sunday in Kigali (2006).

The Belgian airline Sabena, who owned the hotel at the time, flew out of the European manager of the hotel and sat Rusesabagina, the former manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates smaller than a new manager. Together with his wife, he succeeded by means of money and serving alcohol it again and again prevent the genocidal Hutu Interahamwe militias to murder the inhabitants of the hotel. In addition, he managed the inhabitants with water - that you took from the hotel's swimming pool until it was empty - and to provide them with food.

The four- star hotel has 112 rooms, a bar / café, three conference rooms, a restaurant and the famous swimming pool. The name comes from a name of Rwanda, in French " Pays des Mille Collines " or "the land of a thousand hills ".