Land of Fish and Rice

Recently, Constantin had not been idle either. Of course, with age catching up to him, he had devoted more of his energy to traveling around East Africa.

He then set out from First Town, changed trains in Dodoma city and headed north, passing through Mwanza before finally arriving in Western Great Lakes Province.

The Western Great Lakes Province government was located in Bujumbura, at the province's far southwestern edge, so the officials receiving Constantin this time were from the Kagera city government.

Kagera city was a port city situated on the shores of the Great Lake. Its name came from the Kagera River, as it stood at the Kagera River's lake entrance—the equivalent of a river mouth flowing into the sea.

The Kagera River flowing into Lake Victoria was roughly four hundred kilometers long and was Lake Victoria's greatest source of water. The Kagera River was formed by the confluence of northern and southern tributaries, stretching from within Burundi in his previous life all the way into Tanzania before emptying into Lake Victoria.

As the source of the Great Lake, Lake Victoria, Kagera was also the source of the Nile River. With the Kagera River, the entire Nile River reached an astonishing length of more than 6,670 kilometers, keeping the Amazon River firmly beneath it.

As an important granary of East Africa, Western Great Lakes Province was also a key area for water conservancy construction, and the Kagera Basin was one of the priority areas for improvement.

"The upper reaches of the Kagera River pass through mountainous terrain, while the lower reaches lie in the Kagera Basin. The terrain there is relatively flat, but it contains many marshes, wetlands, and rivers. Only after more than ten years of our efforts, coupled with the nationwide push for water conservancy construction, were