Akagera Rwanda National Park

Akagera National Park is one of the thrilling safari destinations in Rwanda, located in the eastern part of Rwanda sharing the boarder with Tanzania. It is popularly known for woodland, low mountains, swamps and savannah vegetation. The varied terrain is home to stunning wildlife species like giraffes, elephants, lions, zebras and hundreds of beautiful bird species including the rare shoebill. Whilst the southern part of Akagera National Park features the large lake lhema which shelters thousands of hippos and crocodiles. Akagera National Park was named after Akagera River which flows along the eastern boundary of Rwanda and Tanzania.

The park covers an African savannah landscape of acacia, a dozen of swampy lakes and also has bush with patches of open grasslands. It blessed exceptional size of bio variety plus a large gazetted wetland.  Akagera National Park is the only savannah safari park in Rwanda where you can encounter large mammals on game safari. You can explore the park using a 4×4 safari vehicle with a guide or your own (self drive safari). In this article, we pleasure to provide with outstanding and reliable information about Akagera National Park

Wildlife in Akagera National Park.

Akagera National Park hosts impressive large number of intriguing species namely; the lions, zebras, hyenas, giraffes, leopards, buffaloes, elephants mention but a few. The park is also home to a variety of antelopes like topis, Orbis, waterbuck, duiker the cape eland, bush buck and among. During the safari you can sight schools of hippos and crocodiles playing in the sand near lake lhema. There are also common primates like the Vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, bush babies, olive baboons which are sighted on guided walk.

Birdlife in Akagera National Park.

Akagera National Park is a home to over 500 beautiful bird species and they include papyrus gonolek, African wattled plover, giant kingfisher, squacco herons, Senegal lapwings, African open bill stock, grey crowned crane and the remarkable shoebill stork. If lucky enough you can also sight more bird species like the cattle egret, agar buzzard, long crested eagle, pied crow, hamerkop, fish eagle and the sacred and hadada ibis among the rest.

Activities In Akagera National Park

Game drives safaris

Game drives in Akagera National Parks are done in the morning using a 4×4 safari vehicle looking for the re-introduced lions, leopards, hyenas because they like hunting at night or early morning giving you an opportunity to see them after they go in their hideouts when sun rises up. You can also enjoy the beautiful scenery landscape in the park while viewing a variety of other big mammals like the buffaloes, zebras, elephants among others as well as colorful wild flowers giving your life time insight

Bird watching in Akagera National Park.

Akagera National Park is popularly known as a great birding site in Rwanda. Bird watching in Akagera gives you chance to view both the endangered bird species including the shoebill stork and the papyrus gonolek plus the easily viewed bird species like the weavers, more kingfishers and the egret bird species. Birding is usually done when on game drive, nature walk with a ranger guide and mainly while on a boat cruise safari on lake lhema. Birding on lake lhema rewards you a chance of viewing water species which you did not see while on during game drive or nature walk. We argue travelers to consider bird watching in Akagera national Park on bucketlist on a safari to the park thus giving you see many colorful birds species.

Boat safari on lake lhema in Akagera National Park.

You can spend the afternoon boat cruising on lhema lake in Akagera National Park and get an opportunity to see animals which hide due to sun coming out to drink water and cooling themselves, some water birds and many schools of hippo wallowing in water and crocodiles at the shores of the lake. There are scheduled boat cruise safaris but you can book a private boat at any time you want.

Sport fishing in Akagera National Park.

You can go for a sport fishing on lake Shakani in Akagera National Park. The park allows you to make a booking for the activity, after sport fishing, you are allowed to take one for your meal if interested or if not, you put it back in the lake alive rather than killing it.

How to get to Akagera National Park.

Akagera National Park can be reached in 2 hours’ drive from Kigali through Rwamagana town to Akagera National Park entering through southern gate. The northern gate is only used for exit. You can also choose to fly to the park through associating with the Akagera Aviation services if you’re not interested in the 2 hours drive to park.

Are you planning a wildlife safari in Rwanda this season?, Akagera National Park as earlier mentioned is one of the wonderful wildlife safari destination in Rwanda that you need to consider on your safari bucketlist and trust me you wont regret taking a tour to this charming safari park. To book a trip to this place, please get in touch with our travel consultants team for an affordable safari price quote, send us an email info@gorillaugandasafaribookings.com or call us directly on +256-775630809 or +256-701343598  to speak directly to our reservations team.