Enjoy an exciting 1-Day Akagera National Park Safari where you will explore wildlife through a game drive and an afternoon boat cruise on Lake Ihema.
Akagera National Park, home to the Big Five, offers a chance to see lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards, and buffalos.
Other wildlife includes Masai giraffes, impalas, elands, warthogs, topis, and various bird species like the rare shoebill stork and grey-backed fiscal.
Akagera National Park is Rwanda’s only Savannah park, located at the border with Tanzania. It is named after the Akagera River, which supplies water to the park.
The drive to the park takes about 2 to 3 hours and is filled with views.
Detailed 1-Day Akagera National Park Safari Itinerary
Your driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel in Kigali and head to Akagera National Park. The journey takes about 2 to 3 hours and offers beautiful views along the way.
If you enjoy music, it will be played in the vehicle for your entertainment.
Upon arrival at the park office, register and begin a morning game drive lasting about 2 hours.
During the drive, you can spot wildlife such as lions, warthogs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, elands, impalas, sitatungas, and birds like the grey-backed fiscal, long-crested eagle, rare shoebill stork, hadada ibis, and Abyssinian ground horn-bill.
After the game drive, enjoy lunch and then take a two-hour boat cruise on Lake Ihema.
This cruise offers the chance to see water-loving animals like hippos, crocodiles, and various birds such as fish eagles and kingfishers.
Following the boat cruise, return to Kigali, where you will be dropped off, marking the end of the 1-Day Akagera Safari.
End of Tour.
