5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda

This 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda 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 6^th, 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

• 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

Detailed 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda

Day 1: Arrival in Rwanda

Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, you are 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. On the next day of the 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda, your adventure of Akagera National Park will commence

Day 2 of 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda: 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-hour drive to Akagera National Park, which is located in the west, 106 km from Kigali.

You will have a stopover at the king’s palace museum, located 88 km 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 monarchy rule, and it’s 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 Rwanda cultural experience, you will resume your journey to the park with an hours lunch break on the route, thus you will reach Akagera National Park in the evening for dinner and you’re much needed night’s rest

Accommodation:

• Luxury: Ruzizi tented camp
• Midrange: Akagera Game Lodge
• Budget: Devera Hotel

Day 3 of 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda: Boat Cruise and Sport Fishing

After early morning breakfast, you will go for a boat cruise on Lake Ihema. A 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 sports fishing on the same lake. The most common fish species caught are tilapia, but there are also other species in the lake like catfish and lungfish. 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: Devera Hotel

Day 4 of 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda: 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 of 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 of an 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 it  back to your lodge to have dinner and rest

Accommodation:

• Luxury: Ruzizi tented camp
• Midrange: Akagera Game Lodge
• Budget: Devera Hotel

Day 5 of 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda: Transfer Back To Kigali with a Tour of 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 km from the park which will take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, with 1 hours’ lunch while on the 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 6^th, 1994. From here, you are driven back to your hotel or dropped off at the airport

End of the 5 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari Rwanda