Magical Akagera National park, Rwanda

Akagera National Park is found in North Eastern Rwanda, at the country’s border with Tanzania. Swamps and small lakes dominate it with the flow in the wake of River Kagera. All the water sources work together to create a piece of spectacular scenery. It is quite a remarkable ecosystem. The Park was obviously named after River Kagera. As you enter the park, you are welcomed by lots of wildlife roaming the savannah-like, Zebras, buffalos, Roan Antelopes, bushbucks, Hynes, Topis, Klipspringers, Olive Baboons, Vervet monkeys, oribis, and much more. For bird lovers, you will tick most of your Bird checklist because of birds like red-faced barbets, swamp flycatchers, shoebill storks, fish eagles, Grey-backed Fiscals, Cattle Egret, Black-headed & Viellot’s Black Weavers, Hamerkop, Pied Crow, Sacred & Hadada Ibis, Long-crested Eagle, Augur Buzzard can be found in Akagera National park.

The options for Accommodation in Akagera range from upmarket to midrange lodges, such as Mgashi lodge (http://Mgashilodge Akagera), Rwizi Tent lodge(http://Rwizi tented lodge), and Akagera game lodge, all with spectacular views of the surrounding lakes, rivers, and the savannah plains.

Surrounded by cultivated hills, that are so much a part of Rwanda’s scenery, the scenery of Akagera National Park is quite simply beautiful. The landscape is low, composed of wide plains dominated by grass, cactus-like Euphorbia candelabra shrub, and both thick and thin forests although it does carry on with the general rugged terrain that is so characteristic of Rwanda.