Akagera Community Center
Akagera Community Center the best way to combine your Rwanda wildlife safari with a visit to a community project? Then add the Akagera Community Center to your itinerary. This Center is found at the southwestern end of the Tourism Office at Akagera Park Welcome Center. Book Now
Akagera Community Center is a community-based project founded by Akagera National Park Management with the aim of introducing visitors to the rich cultural heritage, vegetable growing, poultry, and beekeeping demonstrations. This Center is usually open to both local communities and visitors who wish to gain different skills on different community-based projects as well as field learning.
This natural history Museum is open daily between 8 am and 5 pm, except on Umuganda (last Saturday of every month) where it is open between 12 pm and 5 pm.
Besides this Community Center, Akagera National Park visitors can gain first-hand information about Rwandan culture, traditions, and ways of life by touring the Humure refugee Village, Imigongo Art and Craft Center, Heritage in Rwanda, and many others.
Akagera National Park, a 1122-square-kilometer Protected Area in the Eastern Province of Rwanda has so much to offer to nature and wildlife lovers. This is the only Park in Rwanda where you can see the Big Five Game (lions, leopards, Elephants, Buffaloes, and Rhinos). Also expect to see Masai giraffes, Defassa waterbucks, bushbucks, Topis, warthogs, impalas, blue monkeys, spotted hyenas, zebras, elands, Kobs, vervet monkeys, Hippos, and many others. The tourist activities that you can’t afford to miss in this stunning Safari destination include Day and night game drives, boat rides on Lake Ihema, guided nature/bush walks, camping tours, Helicopter tours, Hot air balloon tours, Behind-the-scenes tours, walk-the-line, and so much more.
When to visit the Akagera Community Center.
The Akagera Community Center is open all year round, except on the last Saturday of every month (especially until 11:00 a.m.) when Citizens of Rwanda engage in mandatory nationwide community work. However, if you wish to combine your visit to this Center with a wildlife safari in Akagera National Park, the best time to visit is during the dry season- June to September, and December to February when rainfall levels are reduced. In so doing, the grasses are scarcer thus providing greater sights of wildlife species and watering points reduced hence animals gather around the few remaining watering points which offers wonderful wildlife viewing opportunities.
Accommodation facilities around Akagera.
Visitors exploring Akagera Community Center or any other tourist activities in the National Park can stay at Ruzizi Tented Lodge, Akagera Game Lodge, Magashi Camp, or Karenge Bush Camp among others.
