Perched above the Mugere River in southern Burundi, the Livingstone–Stanley Monument marks one of the most legendary encounters in exploration history. It was here, overlooking the vast beauty of Lake Tanganyika, that Dr. David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley are believed to have met in 1871 — a moment immortalized by the famous words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” The monument, a humble stone structure set amid hills and acacia trees, stands not just as a marker of geo