Why Visit Akagera Park on your Rwanda Safari

Akagera National park is located at a relatively low altitude on the border with Tanzania. It could scarcely be more different in mood to the breezy cultivated hills that characterize much of  Rwanda. Dominated scenically by the labyrinth of swamps and lakes that follow the meandering course of the Akagera River the most remote source of the Nile; this is archetypal African savannah landscape of tangled acacia woodland interspersed with open grassland.

Akagera Park is famous for the best place place to enjoy a Rwanda Wildlife Safari in the entire country during the game drives like the elephant and buffalo which can be seen drinking at the lake and a leopard can be seen if lucky. There is a spotted hyena and a stray lion, Giraffe; zebra move in the savannah and a number of Antelope mostly the chestnut-coated impala, the diminutive oribi, bushbuck, the ungainly tsessebe and the cape eland.

Camping along the picturesque lakes of Akagera is a truly mystical introduction to the wonders of the African bush. a number of hippopotami grunt and splutter throughout the day and the giant crocodiles soak  up the sun with their  vast jaws menacingly agape. Magically the air is torn apart by the unforgettable duetting of a pair of fish eagle, asserting their status as the avian monarchs of Africa’s waterways. On the shores of the lakes, there are a number of water birds and the connecting arshes is a home of the endangered and exquisite papyrus gonolek and the bizarre shoebill stork which is the most eagerly sought of all African birds.

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