Akagera Nat Park Day trip

One of Africa’s oldest national parks, Akagera is a 348-square-mile scenic game reserve of savannah, woodlands, and wetlands featuring a dozen lakes linked by channels and papyrus swamps teeming with crocodiles and hippos. Considered one of the safari world’s best kept secrets, the scenery, wildlife, birdlife, and one-on-one experience with nature doesn’t get much better than here as we’ll discover on our game-viewing drive. 

Destination: Akagera National Park

Meals included: Lunch

Morning: We’ll depart Kigali at 5:30 am from your residence for our overland journey to Akagera National Park, situated along Rwanda’s north-eastern border with Tanzania. Our drive will be about three to four hours, but we’ll break it up with a stop along the way in the small town of Kayonza, arrive in time and complete the park formalities, at about 9am, we’ll set off on a game-viewing drive in the northern section of the park, keeping our eyes open for giraffe and zebra in open woodland, or small herds of elephant and buffalo that emerge from the dense woodland to drink at the park’s many lakes.

Picnic Lunch: Around 12:30pm, in the park.

Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue our game-viewing drive through Akagera. At about 5:40pm, we’ll drive back to Kigali arriving late in the evening and transfer to Kigali/your residence.