Akagera National Park is found in the north eastern side of Rwanda and was named after River Kagera that takes apart the low-lying lands streaming along its eastern limits. The park used to cover an area of roughly 2500 square kilometers yet during the Rwanda destruction the greater part of the land near half was lost to asylums who required land for safe house, development and cultivating after the emergency.
Game drives in Akagera are the significant activity that happens notwithstanding it being a little park contrasted with other African parks. Game drives should be possible around evening time too looking for hunters like lions, leopards, hyena. A boat journey on Lake Ihema is a decent feature for those visiting Akagera National Park you will get an opportunity to see hippos and water birds while on your safari.
Akagera brags with a surprising eco-framework overwhelmed by swamps, little lakes, and waterways like Kagera it is portrayed by forests, low mountains, and savannah. The shifted landscape covers vertebrates of various species for instance masai giraffes, zebras, elephants, lions, elands, impalas, oribi, primates like olive mandrills, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys are additionally present and many birds that call the mosaic wetland and lakes along the Akagera stream and its eastern limits home these may incorporate, ridiculing bluff visit, more prominent blue-eared starling, humiliated barbet, white apprehended olive back, African harrier peddle, papyrus gonolex the intriguing shoe bill among others.
In spite of Akagera status today, the park was practically unrecognizable contrasted with quite a while back, while there was harmony after the Rwanda massacre, it was a misfortune for the park as it was over infringed on by exiles getting back from the fight for their own endurance the vast majority of the parks biodiversity was lost, but the Rwanda improvement board by the 2015 had begun moved a few creatures back to the park making it sparkle ounce once more.
You can encounter the Rwanda culture from individuals that live around the national park, you will have an open door to partake in conventional dairy cattle nibbling, draining, and what they utilize the results of milk, their methods of lives culture and their customary moves.
The best chance to visit the park is from July to September as well as in January when the nation encounters dry seasons anyway it tends to be visited whenever all through the year as each season brings new encounters, the park lies at an elevation of 1250-1825 meters making the environment calm and pleasant the entire year.
The downpours bring new gorgeous vegetation giving it a spectacular site during game drives. The park is situated in the eastern region of Rwanda right at the Tanzanian line with the country, it tends to be gotten to by road from Kigali, there is accessible accommodation inside the park going from luxury to budget for instance Akagera Game Lodge, Rusizi Tented Lodge among others.