Akagera National Park

The Akagera National Park covers 2,500 sq.km locates in North eastern Rwanda, against the Tanzanian border. It was founded in 1934 to protect animals in three eco-regions of savannah, mountain and swamp. It includes lakes including Lake Shakani and Lake Ihema. The park is named for the Kagera River which flows through it.

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A three days birding safari, this begins and ends in Kigali. It can as well be done upon a personal basis and this safari gets to Akagera with its nice-looking rolling plains, its timberlands along with sprawling lakes and wetlands. The game in the park is continuously increasing with, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, elephant, crocodile and distinctive antelopes getting down to be seen. Akagera has an excellent choice of birds as well.

ITINERARY

Day 1: Driving to Akagera National Park. You will drive to the eastern side of Rwanda, to Akagera National Park following being briefed as regards to your safari. You’ll have a fine an afternoon game drive in the park and you’ll be able to spot a variety of birds as well as animals like elephants, giraffe, spotted hyena,buffalo, hippo, and crocodiles. A night along with dinner at Akagera Lodge (FB).

Day 2: Canoe Ride.
After a fine breakfast, you either try out an early game drive in the park over again or a canoe ride along Lake Ihema to see a large number of hippos, the huge Nile crocodile as well as birds. A night along with dinner at Akagera Lodge (FB).

Day 3: Return to Kigali
and visit Kigali Genocide Memorial.

The Rwandan Savannah

"Akagera, with its complex mix of terrain, vegetation and animal life... is a very special place on earth, a place to preserve at all costs for future generations."

Akagera comes as a thrilling amazement after the steep cultivated hills and windy climate that characterizes the rest of the country. Set at a relatively low altitude along the Tanzanian border, this beautiful game reserve protects a superior African Savannah scenery of snarled acacia and brachystegia bush, interspersed with patches of open grassland and a dozen swamp-fringed lakes that follow the meandering course of the Akagera River.

What to see in Akagera National Park.
When you visit Akagera national park, expect to find herds of elephant and buffalo emerge from the woodland to drink at the lakes, while lucky visitors might stumble across a leopard, a spotted hyena or even a stray lion. Giraffe and zebra haunt the savannah, and more than a dozen types of antelope inhabit the park, most commonly the handsome chestnut-coated impala, but also the diminutive oribi and secretive bushbuck, as well as the ungainly tsessebe and the world's largest antelope, the statuesque Cape eland.