Visit the Beautiful Akagera National Park

Akagera National Park is set on Tanzania’s borders with a relatively low altitude and comprises about 2.3 percent of Rwanda. The national park is quite different compared to the breezing cultivated-hills which characterize the majority of the land of Rwanda. The national park is dominated scenically by swamp’s labyrinth and the lake following the Akagera River’s meandering course which is Nile’s most remote source and an Archetypal African-savannah landscape. You can book an advance cheap flight to Tanzania with us to get things started.

The Archetypal African-savannah landscape is represented by the confluence of many vegetation-zones and exhibits an unusually-high diversity of the animals. Plants and sceneries comprised of lakes, savannah, swamps, dry forests and a plain cover 386 square miles and is a home to more than 540 species of birds which include the endemic-shoebill and the papyris gonolek drawing visitors from around the globe to marvel these great-birds.

Akagera is a home to different animals including elephant’s herds, waterbucks, topis as well as buffaloes emerging from the woodland to drink water at the lakes. Some of the lucky visitors might get a chance to see a leopards, hyenas and lions. While going through the Highlands and Savannah, you are also expected to come across Giraffe’s and Zebras. You’ll also get to find a variety of antelopes inhibiting the park with chestnut coated impala being the most common and including roan-antelope, the diminutive-oribi and the secretive bushbuck. The statuesque cape-eland can also be found here which world’s largest-antelope.

Many other fascinating sights can be spotted here including the pods of Hippopotami-grunt and splutter along the shores throughout the day and gigantic crocodiles soaking up in the sun. The lake areas are dominated by the African fish-eagles and fry above the skies above patrolling the area. The lakes are also linked by some of the densest concentration of water-birds in the whole continent. You’ll find the exquisite and endangered shoebill stork and papyrus gonolek in the connecting marshes which are the most eagerly sought of the African birds.

For the bird enthusiasts, the lakes, marsh and the river systems of Akagera’s rivel, the Okavango Delta, are rich in both diversity and richness of life. Around 30 percent of all the water reaching Lake-Victoria eastwards, passes through Akagera. The region is characterized by two rainy seasons, the first from mid-January till April and the second through mid October till mid December with an average rainfall of about 30-40 inches or 800-1000mm per year.