Self Drive Car Rental Kigali

Everything You Need to Know About Self Drive in Rwanda

This fleet is for visitors and residents who'd rather have their own set of wheels and set their own schedule than book a driver for every trip. If you'd prefer someone else to handle the driving instead, our driver car hire and private driver pages cover that instead — this page is for driving yourself.

Driving in Rwanda is on the right-hand side of the road. Kigali's layout follows its hills: the main arteries connecting the different sectors are wide and well paved, but turn off onto a residential street and you'll often meet steeper, narrower roads with tighter bends — manageable in any of our cars, though a higher-clearance option is worth considering if your accommodation sits up one of the steeper hills. Major junctions are usually roundabouts rather than traffic-light intersections, so give way to traffic already circulating and take your exit rather than cutting across lanes. Here's what else you need to know: