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Burundi
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A royal drum sanctuary on Gishora Hill, approximately seven kilometres north of Gitega, where sacred drums of the Burundian monarchy are housed within a complex of royal courts that formed the ceremonial heart of the Kingdom of Burundi.
OpenA series of waterfalls on the Shanga hill in Rutana Province, southern Burundi, documented through Wikimedia Commons photography and visited by local tourists, representing one of the most accessible natural attractions in the southern highlands of the country.
OpenA 400 square kilometre montane forest national park straddling the Congo-Nile Divide in northwestern Burundi, containing montane bogs, bamboo stands, and exceptional biodiversity of birds and plants, contiguous with Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda.
OpenLake Tanganyika, the world's second-deepest freshwater lake, forms Burundi's entire western border and is accessible from Bujumbura, offering pale-sand beaches, warm clear water and remarkable endemic cichlid fish life in a setting of forested tectonic escarpments.
OpenA 90 square kilometre protected area at the mouth of the Rusizi River where it enters Lake Tanganyika in northwestern Burundi, designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance since 2002 and home to hippos, crocodiles and diverse waterbirds.
OpenThe area around Rutovu in Bururi Province, near Mount Kikizi, is historically associated with one of the most distant headwaters of the Nile, following Burkhart Waldecker's identification of the Ruvyironza River's source in the early twentieth century; this claim is conventional rather than definitively established.
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