Get lost in the heart of nature.....
Akagera National Park
Gazetted: 1934
Size: Approximately: 900km

Situated at a moderately low elevation on the border with Tanzania, Akagera National Park could barely be more diverse 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 River Akagera, the most remote source of the Nile, this typical African savannah landscape of tangled acacia woodland speckled with open grassland.

Akagera is, above all, big game country! Herds of elephant and buffalo emerge from the woodland to drink at the lakes, while lucky visitors might spot some leopards, spotted hyenas or even lions. Giraffe and zebra haunt the savannah, and more than a dozen types of antelope inhabit the park, most commonly the handsome chestnut-coated impala, but also the diminutive oribi and secretive bushbuck, as well as the ungainly tsessebe and the world's largest antelope, the statuesque Cape eland.

Interested compeers may cay comp alongside the picturesque lakes of Akagera; this is truly mystical introduction to the wonders of the African bush. Pods of 50 hippopotami grunt and splutter throughout the day, while outsized crocodiles soak up the sun with their vast jaws menacingly agape magically, the air is tattered apart by the unforgettable high duetting of a pair of fish eagles, asserting their status as the avian sovereigns of Africa's waterways. Lining the lakes are some of the continent’s densest concentrations of water birds, while the connecting marshes are the haunt of the endangered and exquisite papyrus gonolek, and the bizarre shoebill stork - the latter perhaps the most eagerly sought of all African birds.