3 Days Akagera Wildlife Tour, Big 5 Safari

Rwanda is the newest addition to the list of African countries with the big five game animals following the reintroduction of eastern black Rhinos to Akagera National Park in May 2017 after a 10 years absence. Among these big five game animals include the Cape Buffalo, Rhinoceros, Lions, Leopards and Elephants that can all be viewed from Rwanda’s only wildlife destination, Akagera National Park. This short 3 days Akagera wildlife safari will let you watch these big five animals plus a lot more on the Savannah plains of Akagera NP at unbeatable prices. Briefly, the “big five animals” is a term used by poachers to refer to the animals that turn out to be the hardest to hunt on foot.

This 3 days Akagera wildlife safari begins and ends in Kigali City, highlights three game viewing activities, a boat cruise on the magical Lake Ihema for sights of crocodiles and hippopotamuses plus a Kigali City Tour highlighting visits to various cultural sites.

Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Akagera National Park

On your arrival, our company safari guide shall pick you up and drive you to Akagera National Park for a short briefing session that will instill you with knowledge, precautions, tips plus a lot more before we make our final way into the Savannah plains of this national park in search for wildlife. We shall then have a 2 hours game viewing drive and return to the park for a break and lunch as well before embarking on an afternoon boat ride along the magical views of Akagera’s largest lake, Lake Ihema where we shall catch sights of crocodiles, hippopotamuses plus more water animals in plenty. From here we shall return to our place of stay for an overnight as we prepare for more game sights the following day.

Day 2: Full Day Game drive at Akagera National Park

This day calls us to be awake by at least 6:30am or earlier if possible for an early morning breakfast as we organize for our 7:00am departure to the northern part of Akagera National Park. This journey is a bit long that lunch will find us at the park hence, we recommend you carry a lot of drinks plus packed lunch with you so as to have lunch in the wild while viewing wildlife. This is a very exciting day of viewing wildlife! Sights of mammals such as Elephants, Buffaloes and Topis are guaranteed as we trail through the steep Mutumba hill, a hill that faces the Northern part of Akagera National Park and has herds of wildlife roaming besides it.

Notably, The northern side of Akagera National Park is mainly covered with a mixture of acacia tree plantations along with wooden and wide Savannah grasslands. It’s one of the best sections for wildlife viewing in this national park hence, we shall make the most of our drive here. It should take us about 3 hours to access this section before we relax at the sights of variety of antelope species comprising of the cape elands, roans, reedbucks, oribis, dikers, sitatungas, impalas plus a lot more..

Day 3: Early Morning Game drive and transfer to Kigali

We shall wake up to a 6:30am breakfast on the last day of our 3 days Akagera wildlife safari so as to commence our final game viewing drive by 7:00am. This is the day we look for animals we failed to see in the previous 2 days and in case we failed to view any member of the big five, we shall search for it until we find it. We shall then transfer to Kigali City immediately after the game drive for a city tour in case we have time else we go ahead and drop you at the airport for your flight back home. In case you choose to stay around for an overnight, communications should be made early so as to enable us make reservations with any of our partner safari lodges / accommodation facilities.

End of 3 Days Akagera Wildlife Safari