Comprehensive Guide to Akagera National Park Rwanda
Found in the North Eastern Part of Rwanda, Akagera National Park bordering Tanzania is here to offer you remarkable wildlife safaris. With River Kagera flowing along the edges, the park includes swamps, and candid lakes hence a very exceptional ecosystem. In the Park, is Lake Ihema.
Around the park is grass, and cactus-like Euphorbia candelabra shrub which makes the park very beautiful to adventure while on safari in Rwanda. The Park is the largest protected wetland in Africa covering an area of 1,122 km2 (433 sq mi).
Akagera National Park is famously known to offer amazing Wildlife Safaris to all travelers from all over the world hence the best savannah destination in Rwanda. While here, enjoy game drives along the various tracks as well as boat cruises along Lake Ihema and sports fishing at Lake shakani.
Wildlife to see in the Park
In Akagera National Park, many wildlife animals are watched and these include; elephants, lions, buffalos, hyenas, zebras, giraffes and several antelopes like the bushbucks, roan antelope, Topis, klipspringer, Oribis, Cape eland, water-buck, duikers and impalas as well as olive baboons, Vervet monkeys, and the nocturnal bush babies.
How to get to Akagera National Park
Getting to Akagera National Park from the Kigali International Airport will take you a period of 2 to 3 hours using Road.
You transfer from Kigali City via Rwamagana Town to the Southern Gate of the Park.
By flight, the park is accessed from the Kigali International airport by use of a domestic flight from Akerga Aviation into the Park where you are picked up and transferred to the park for your wildlife safari in Rwanda.
Tour Activities to do in Akegara park
- Game Drives
Akagera National Park offers exciting game drives to all travelers from all over the globe interested in watching Africa’s BIG FIVE animal species wander around their natural vegetation habitat. The game drives are done in the Early mornings to late afternoons as well as Night Game periods. They are done in 4×4 wheel vehicles watching many wildlife animals like buffaloes, elands, topis, lions, giraffes, buffaloes, monkeys, savannah birds, civets, leopards, hyenas, as well as serval cats.
- Nocturnal Game Drives
Akagera National Park is known to also offer remarkable nocturnal game drives as you get to watch many nocturnal wildlife animal species as well as predators as they hunt. The wildlife animals you watch in these game drives include; leopards, lions, civets, serval cats, hyenas, and bush babies with large eyes. These Game Drives take a period of 2 hours with a lead park ranger guide.
- Bird watching
Akagera National Park is also known as a birder’s paradise due to the many species of birds that inhabit the forest vegetation around the park. There are over 500 different species of birds that are watched in the park and these include; the papyrus gonolex, fish eagles, Grey-backed Fiscals, the Long-crested Eagle, Cattle Egret, shoebill stork, Black-headed & Viellot’s Black Weavers, Pied Crow, Hamerkop, Sacred and Hadada Ibis.
- Sports Fishing
Sports fishing in AKagera National Park is done along lake Shakani. You carry your own fishing equipment or hire this at the entrance of the park so as to catch fish enjoy. While fishing, you watch other wildlife animals like hippos and birds.
All the fish you catch, you keep it and prepare it for Dinner.
- Boat Cruises
Boat cruises are done in Akagera National Park at Lake Ihema which is the largest Lake in the Park located in the Southern region of the park. While on the Lake, view schools of hippos, and crocodiles as well as many bird species like the shoebill stork. You watch other wildlife animals come to the shores to break their thirst like the elephants.
