5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda

This 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda Adventures will enable you to do game viewing, birding, nature walks, and boat cruises at Akagera National Park. This attractive park of rolling hills and open grassy valleys are interspersed with thickets, woodlands, and rich wetlands.

It is the only place in Rwanda of this sort, and the best to see large schools of Hippos. While a visit to the presidential museum will give you an insight into the tragedy that happened on April 6th, 1994 when president Habyarimana’s plane was shot down, to date it is a museum and a noteworthy item on the bucket list of the Rwanda tour

Tour highlight of the 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda Adventures

  • Day 1: Arrival in Rwanda
  • Day 2: Transfer to Akagera National Park via King’s Palace Museum
  • Day 3: Boat Cruise and Sport Fishing
  • Day 4: Game Drive and Nature Walk
  • Day 5: Transfer back to Kigali with a Tour of the Presidential Palace

5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda Adventures: Safari in Details

Day 1: Arrival in Rwanda

Arrival in Rwanda

Upon arrival at Kigali international Airport, you be met by our safari guide who will transfer you to Kigali to a hotel booked for you. In case you have had an early flight to Rwanda, you will be taken on a brief tour of the city of Kigali. The next day, your adventure of Akagera National Park will commence

Day 2 : Transfer to Akagera National Park Via King’s Palace Museum

Transfer to Akagera National Park Via King’s Palace Museum

You will wake up early in the morning, and after your breakfast at exactly 7:00 AM our tour guide/driver will be at your hotel to brief you about the whole travel plan. Thereafter, you will embark on a 3 hours’ drive to Akagera National Park, which located in the west, 106 kms from Kigali.

You will have stopover at the king’s palace museum, located 88 kms south of Kigali. It was built for Mutara 111, which explains why it has a palace-like appearance. It offers a detailed study of the Rwandan tradition of the monarchy rule, and its composed of traditional materials like the artistically designed wooden African chairs plus animal skin mats.

While here, you may opt to visit the royal burial grounds of King Mutara and his wife. After this cultural experience, you will resume your journey to the park with an hours’ lunch break on route, thus you will reach Akagera National Park in the evening for dinner and your much needed night’s rest

Accommodation:

Luxury: Ruzizi tented camp

Midrange: Akagera Game Lodge

Budget: Dereva Hotel

Day 2 : Transfer to Akagera National Park Via King’s Palace Museum

Transfer to Akagera National Park Via King’s Palace Museum

You will wake up early in the morning, and after your breakfast at exactly 7:00 AM our tour guide/driver will be at your hotel to brief you about the whole travel plan. Thereafter, you will embark on a 3 hours’ drive to Akagera National Park, which located in the west, 106 kms from Kigali.

You will have stopover at the king’s palace museum, located 88 kms south of Kigali. It was built for Mutara 111, which explains why it has a palace-like appearance. It offers a detailed study of the Rwandan tradition of the monarchy rule, and its composed of traditional materials like the artistically designed wooden African chairs plus animal skin mats.

While here, you may opt to visit the royal burial grounds of King Mutara and his wife. After this cultural experience, you will resume your journey to the park with an hours’ lunch break on route, thus you will reach Akagera National Park in the evening for dinner and your much needed night’s rest

Accommodation:

Luxury: Ruzizi tented camp

Midrange: Akagera Game Lodge

Budget: Dereva Hotel

Day 3 : Boat Cruise and Sport Fishing

Boat Cruise and Sport Fishing

After an early morning breakfast, you will go for a boat cruise on lake Ihema. A Rwanda tour guide on the boat will journey you through the history of its existence. You should expect to see a variety of aquatic life like elephants, hippos, crocodiles, birdlife plus other wildlife.

The boat cruise takes around 3 hours; after which you will head back to your accommodation for lunch. Or break for lunch if you have your packed lunch with you. Later on, you will go sport fishing on the same lake.

The most common fish species caught is tilapia, but there are also other species in the lake like cat fish and lung fish. After this amazing experience, you will return to your lodge for dinner and rest for the night

Accommodation:

Luxury: Ruzizi tented camp

Midrange: Akagera Game Lodge

Budget: Dereva Hotel

Day 4: Game Drive and Nature Walk

Game Drive and Nature Walk

You will wake up to the sounds of nature with an early morning Breakfast, after which you will embark on your 3 hours’ morning game drive in the open savannah of the park. Here, your sightseeing adventure will bring you close to countless groups of wildlife including, elephants, zebras, buffalos, topis, giraffes and hyenas; along with birds of various types.

You then retreat from the activity and head back to the lodge for lunch and afternoon relaxation. Thereafter, you may opt to do 3 hours evening nature walk, which will draw you close to the wildlife, and you will get to learn different animal behaviors as they retire after a long day. After this moment, you will make back to your lodge have dinner and rest

Accommodation:

Luxury: Ruzizi tented camp

Midrange: Akagera Game Lodge

Budget: Dereva Hotel

Day 5 Transfer Back to Kigali with A Tour to The Presidential Palace

Transfer Back to Kigali with A Tour to The Presidential Palace

You arise early in the morning hums of mother Nature, and after your breakfast and checking out from your lodge/hotel, you will transfer back to Kigali, 106 kms from the park which will take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, with 1 hours’ lunch while on route.

You will then get to visit the former presidential palace of the late Habyarimana, now turned into a museum, which is composed of wreckages from his jet that was gunned down on April 6th 1994. From here, you be driven back to your hotel or dropped off at the airport

End of the 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda Adventures

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