Day 1: Transfer to Akagera National Park for Game drive
Day 2: Game drive and Boat cruise on Lake Ihema then back to Kigali
Day 1: Transfer to Akagera National Park.
Early morning breakfast, drive to Akagera National Park. It is known for its vast landscape characterized by rolling highlands, wide plains, and swamp-fringed lakes containing incredible biodiversity and rare species. It is the only largest central Africa wetland and Savannah national park in Rwanda protecting the BIG 5 including the elephants, buffalos, Rhinos, leopards, and lions, also hyenas, giraffe, zebras, antelopes like bushbucks, Topis, Oribis, water-buck, roan antelope and duiker, klipspringer, impala and world largest antelope – the Cape eland. The afternoon will be spent on the game drive to see the various wild animals which inhabit the Akagera National Park.
Overnight at Akagera Game Lodge (High end) or Ruzizi Tented Lodge (Mid range)
Meal Plan: Lunch & Dinner
Day 2: Game Drive and Boat Cruise on Lake Ihema
Early morning game drives on the Savannah plains of Akagera exploring and discovering the BIG 5. The park preserves over 12,000 mammals including Lions, Leopards, elephants, Buffaloes, Rhinos and antelopes with over 482 bird species. The afternoon will be spent on the Boat cruise on Lake Ihema known to be the largest lake in Rwanda and it shares its borders with Tanzania. It lies within the marshland of the Kagera River in which it empties via a very short channel with an area of 100 km². It is home to hippopotamuses and crocodiles. It has over 550 species of birds, including remarkable species such as the shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) and the papyrus gonolek (Laniarius mufumbiri). Among the endemic species, there are ibises, jacanas, herons, plovers, sandpipers, malachite kingfishers, hawks and many others. Return to Kigali in the evening.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, & Lunch
- Transportation by a 4wd safari vehicle.
- Accommodation and meals as per the itinerary.
- Park entrance fees.
- Game drive
- Boat cruise on Lake Ihema
However, the Safari excludes:
Airfares, Visas or Insurance, Tips to local guides, Porterage or Laundry, Soft or alcoholic, drinks or mineral water (excl. water in the vehicles), Items of a personal nature, any meals not indicated above, any tours not mentioned from the itinerary above.