Game drive safaris in Rwanda are mainly done in Akagera national park and experience gives you a unique wildlife encounter with in the country. If you want to carry out a game drive safari in Rwanda, you will have to do it from Akagera National Park. Akagera National Park is the only park you get to find all the animals that is the lion, elephant, buffaloes, rhinos and leopard.

Akagera National Park is found in the northeastern part of Rwanda in the districts of Kayonza and Nyagatare. Akagera National Park is the largest National Park in Rwanda with over 1,122 sq. km and it’s one of the oldest national parks in Africa gazette in 1934. The park was before 2500 sq. km but later was destroyed to create settlement for Rwanda refugees who had fled 1994 Rwanda genocide.

But following the creation of Akagera Management Company in 2010, much has been restored with reduced deforestation and animals such as lions, elephants and rhinos that had got extinct have now been already reintroduced back to Akagera National Park.

Game drive safaris in Rwanda will give you a chance to explore the savannah landscapes in Akagera National Park and also spot the beautiful wildlife in the park. According to researchers Akagera National Park is believed to have 8000 large wildlife animals. While on the game drive safari in Rwanda you will be able to see different wild animals in Akagera National Park and these include sitatungas, antelopes, giraffes, topis, oribis, klipspringer, cape eland, lions, leopards, rhinos, impalas, hippos, zebras, hyenas, bush bucks among others.

Akagera National Park has over 10 elephants, over 1000 buffaloes, over 80 giraffes, over 20 lions and more than 25 black eastern rhinos. Akagera national park is a habitant of over 12 different species of antelopes commonly seen by tourists on a game drive safari in Akagera National Park.

One game drive half a day in Akagera National Park goes for USD 25 and USD 40 for a full day game drive. Visitors on a game drive safari in Akagera National Park are escorted by well-trained guides and experienced park rangers making the game drive experience unforgettable. These game drives in Akagera National Park are carried out in the morning from 7am to 9 pm taking you about 1-2 hours or in the evening or at night which starts at 6pm accompanied by a ranger guide. This gives you an opportunity to see nocturnal animals such as pottos, lions, leopards, bush babies and civets among others.

The game drives in Rwanda also give you a chance to see beautiful birds in Akagera National Park. The park is a home of over 500 bird species and the most common seen  birds in the park include suaza shrike, white egret, fish eagle, open bill stork, marabou stork, African darter, black headed weaver bird, grey crowned crane, African jacana, rare shoebill stork among others. You can also watch hippos and crocodiles sun bathing near Lake Ihema, primates such as olive baboons, blue monkeys, bush babies, vervet monkeys among others.