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Akagera National Park
Contact details for ORTPN (Park administrators): 250. 76514 in Kigali
Akagera comes as an exciting surprise after the steep cultivated hills that characterize the rest of Rwanda. Set at a relatively low altitude along the Tanzanian border, this beautiful game reserve features an archetypal African savannah landscape of tangled acacia and brachystegia bush, interspersed with patches of open grassland and a dozen swamp-fringed lakes that follow the course of the Akagera River.
Akagera’s stirring and varied scenery is complemented by a superb range of big game. Herds of elephant and buffalo are likely to be encountered when they emerge from woodland to drink in one of the lakes. One may also stumble across a lion, leopard or spotted hyena. There are also giraffe, zebra, and more than a dozen types of antelope, particularly the handsome impala, the diminutive oribi, the secretive bushbuck and eland.
To camp alongside Akagera’s picturesque lakes is a truly mystical experience. Herds of hippopotami grunt and splutter throughout the day while fish eagles fly overhead. Other birds one can expect to see are, storks, egrets, ibises, plovers, sandpipers, kingfishers and herons.
Akagera comes as an exciting surprise after the steep cultivated hills that characterize the rest of Rwanda. Set at a relatively low altitude along the Tanzanian border, this beautiful game reserve features an archetypal African savannah landscape of tangled acacia and brachystegia bush, interspersed with patches of open grassland and a dozen swamp-fringed lakes that follow the course of the Akagera River.
Akagera’s stirring and varied scenery is complemented by a superb range of big game. Herds of elephant and buffalo are likely to be encountered when they emerge from woodland to drink in one of the lakes. One may also stumble across a lion, leopard or spotted hyena. There are also giraffe, zebra, and more than a dozen types of antelope, particularly the handsome impala, the diminutive oribi, the secretive bushbuck and eland.
To camp alongside Akagera’s picturesque lakes is a truly mystical experience. Herds of hippopotami grunt and splutter throughout the day while fish eagles fly overhead. Other birds one can expect to see are, storks, egrets, ibises, plovers, sandpipers, kingfishers and herons.
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