2-Day Akagera Wildlife Safari - Big 5 Encouter

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Pick up from Kigali Airport and Drive to Akagera National Park for a Guided Game Drive

Depending on the arrival time at the Airport, you will be picked up by an English /French-speaking tour guide at your hotel who will give a short briefing. Then, you'll drive to the eastern part of Rwanda via beautiful landscapes. Farmlands, local markets, and communities to Akagera National Park, home to the African Big Five and other wildlife.
Upon arrival at the park entry gate, you will register and then proceed for a wildlife viewing that shall give breathtaking sightings of the buffalo, antelopes, warthogs, elephants, and zebras grazing in the savanna grasslands.
After the game drive, you will have a short break as you prepare for the night game drive at 5:30 pm, which will give picturesque views of the sunset over the savanna plains as most herbivores find shelter and the carnivorous animals like lions and leopards come out for their night duty activities.
You'll retreat from the night game drive and check in at the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Akagera National Park

Best Time To Visit June to September and mid-December to mid-February (It is drier and wildlife is easier to spot)

High Season June to September (The park is busiest at weekends)

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Akagera NP

GiraffeCommon

BuffaloAbundant

ZebraAbundant

HippoAbundant

White RhinoOccasional

LionOccasional

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ElephantOccasional

Black RhinoRare

LeopardRare

HyenaRare

CheetahNone

WildebeestNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Karenge Bush Camp

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Akagera NP

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Guided Game Drive and Drive back to Kigali

At 7 am, after breakfast, you'll commence the day for full game viewing in this African Savannah, hills, and jungle park. Plenty of animals can be seen, including lions, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, zebras, hippos, rhinos, crocodiles, and many other mammal species. Known as one of the most scenic savannahs in East Africa, the game drive in Akagera National Park provides you with the opportunity to also view gentle hills blending beautifully with lowland swamps and water bodies.
Dominated by the labyrinth of lakes that follow the meandering Akagera River, the most remote source of the River Nile, Akagera National Park (1,122 km2) is an archetypal African Savannah; tangled acacia woodland interspersed with open grassland, but above all, Akagera is big game country
You will have a boat trip on the picturesque Lake Ihema that will offer you pods of 50+ hippopotami, grunt and splutter, crocodiles, as well as other animals like buffalo, quenching their thirst at the banks of the lake.

Main Destination:

Akagera National Park

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.