Getting to Akagera National Park
Getting to Akagera National Park: Most sightseers would love how to get to Akagera National Park and as it is, Akagera National Park is one of the top safari destinations in Rwanda famous for being home to various rare wild animals in Africa and a perfect place to go on a game drive.
Akagera National Park is Located in the Eastern part of Rwanda in the Ribungu district. Akagera National Park is the biggest national park and the only savannah park in Rwanda covering an area of approximately 1,122 sq km made up of various plant species and water bodies such as the Kagera River which flows water along its eastern border with Tanzania.
Akagera National Park is home to African big 5 animals Elephants, buffaloes, lions, rhinos, leopards, and other mammal species like zebras, giraffes, warthogs, impalas, bushbucks lions, hyenas, and several antelopes like the bushbucks, roan antelope, Topes, klipspringer, Oribis, Cape eland, water-buck, duikers and impalas. There are a number of primate species found within this park such as the olive baboons, Vervet monkeys, and the nocturnal bush babies.
Getting to Akagera National Park is about 110 kilometers from Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, and the most popular and often used mode of transportation to the park is by car. Through the national park. can be accessed using both road transport and air transport from Kigali city.
Some others choose to go through tour operators such as Focus East Africa who can help in the booking and arrangement of the numerous safari activities at the national park making it a safer way to explore the national park, these are some of the activities that can be carried out while at the national park.
Activities offered at Akagera National Park
Game drives
Game drives can also be conducted in the national park by sightseers as they get to witness numerous wildlife and various attractions such as the big fives and other animals like; Uganda Kob, antelopes that come to take a sip in the waters of the river, and zebras, which makes the safari experience so much more interesting and wonderful.
Boat tours
Boat safaris in the Akagera National Park are also another way for sightseers to explore the national park this allows sightseers to participate in the sundowner’s boat tour, which usually includes those who want to witness how the animals interact in the evening and others who want to see the sunset while enjoying the boat excursions. You can also hire the boat for a specified period for you and your group of friends or loved ones for a fee that is listed in the Akagera National Park fees and permits.
Sightseers are true bird lovers who have the chance to carry out birding activities and get to sight different birds of over 500 bird species, birds that can also be spotted include swamp flycatcher, shoebill stork, red-faced barbet, marabou stork, African fish eagle, open billed stork, cormorants, African darter, lilac-breasted roller, Suaza shrike, long-tailed cisticola, Ross Turaco, papyrus Gonolek, Huglen’s robin-chat, and many others.
Sport fishing
Fishing is one of the safari activities that sightseers can carry out while they get to reach the national park due to the fact that the national park has got freshwater bodies around and inside it and what is most you will be allowed to keep a fish as a reward for participating.
