THE MONEY TRICK
The Bureau de Change places in larger towns are plentiful and give you a good rate of exchange. I really cannot fault theses guys. Even the exchange guys who stand in street outside of their businesses are very polite and will take a polite ‘No’ without any hassle. Also, they do not make you queue up to get a form to fill out like the banks. (In fact, avoid the banks here.) Also their buy-back rates are excellent, so do not worry too much about having left over Rwandan Francs right before you leave.So what’s the trick? They like BIG MONEY in Rwanda. The rates you see on their boards are for crisp, new, $100 and $50 notes. Some may try to offer you a lower rate for $50, but do not accept that. I obtained the top rate for some $20 with my favourite exchange place in Kigali because I had already done business with him for some hundreds. Smaller notes like $1, $5 and $10 will always come...
