Plan Your Next Safari to Akagera National Park

Let us plan for your next safari to Akagera National Park, Rwanda’s most authentic safari destination, and lots of experiences, with dramatic landscapes, spectacular wildlife, and fabulous luxury camps and lodges.  Akagera is home to the Big Five Game and it’s the ultimate safari destination in the country. Book Now

Get ready for your safari to Akagera National Park for prime game viewing opportunities. Get to explore the amazing safari place on a guided game drive heading to the northern gate that takes around 6 hours but take into consideration a few sighting stops on the route. Lions are predominantly in the areas of Mutumba, Mihindi, Mohana and Kilala. On a lucky day, you will encounter these kings of the jungle on any of the loops. Remember luck and timing play a significant role in big 5 sightings. You win some, you lose some. Mihindi loop is also known to be a track to find Elephants and Hippos but more towards the other side of the lake.

Akagera National Park on a whole is beautiful and scenic with hills, flats, grass, bush, and many different vegetation colors. Animals including the Africa Elephants, Lions, Cape Buffaloes, Leopards, Palin Zebras, Masai Giraffes, Hippos, Black rhinos, Roan, Klipspringer, Defassa Waterbuck, Eland, Topis, Impalas, Common Duikers, Bohor Reedbucks, Warthogs, Genet, Nile Crocodiles, porcupine, Baboon, Bush pigs among others can be spotted on a guided game drives in Akagera National Park.

While on safari to Akagera, you will take on a boat safari on Lake Ihema, arguably one of Rwanda’s richest water bodies with aquatic life. On your lucky day on a boat safari, you will see a herd of hippos with an expert boat guide with densely populated beautiful birds and a few crocodiles. This boat safari in Akagera is something you cannot miss, you will love this park, and we would definitely recommend it during your visit to this wildlife park in Rwanda.

Other incredible and unforgettable experiences while on safari to Akagera that you must look out for include the White Rhino tracking, behind-the-scenes experience, and walk-the-line experience.

Rwanda is the ultimate safari destination. Many think so. And there’s certainly no shortage of adventures from the world’s popular mountain gorilla tracking inside Volcanoes National Park to the Nyungwe Chimpanzee walk experience and the Canopy walk. These and more are awaiting while exploring the uncrowded spaces.