Assumption is the mother of all Fsckups!
6 09 2006So when I was leaving Rwanda. The exchange rate at the border was rubbish. I had 80,000 Francs ($200), and wasn’t going to make their day by changing with them.
I knew the bank rate. So figured I would do the exchange in Mwanza or as it turned out in Tabora.
Alas the banks in Tabora didnt change Francs. Only US & Euro.
No problem. The trusty Barclays or Standard & Chartered are in Dar es Salam along with ~1000 Forex bureaus.
Not one of them will change it. I guess that means its an Internal Currency.
$200 looking like lost money.. Saved by the fruits of the internet!
Irene that I met thru Couchsurfing is gonna change the money in Rwanda for me and Western Union it back to me! I should send an Invoice to Lonely Planet for the WU fees as they dont warn that its an internal currency. (they do for the asian ones!)
/rant off but a happy ending.
