Lake Ihema is located in Akagera national park Rwanda, the word Ihema means a tent. Lake Ihema is believed to have got its name from Henry Morten Stanley a renowned explorer who used to camp at the lake shores when he arrived in Rwanda from Tanzania in 1876. Lake Ihema is the second largest lake in Rwanda and the biggest lake inside Akagera national park of Rwanda.
Explore Akagera national park wildlife while on a boat cruise on Lake Ihema. Boat cruise on Lake Ihema costs you 45 per person per 2.5 hours exploring the lake while seeing water birds and animals such as hippos, crocodiles, rare shoebills among others.
Tourists who want to do a boat cruise in Rwanda should consider visiting lake Ihema, when you can go through a large group of hippos as well as crocodiles. For good bird lovers, this is one of the good birding spots and a boat cruise is a must. Boat cruises in the park take place four times a day at 7:30 am, 9 am, 3 pm, and last at 4:30 pm. Private boat cruises can also be arranged on the lake.
Akagera national park is not only famous for the second largest lake in Rwanda but also the most amazing and beautiful wild animals and birds in the park in discovering them with a lot of fun. You will see different animals and leave the park with the experience of having spotted wildlife.
There are a number of things and tourism activities to do in Akagera national park Rwanda, Below are the most selling activities in the park;
Game drives in Akagera national park are quite rewarding. They are conducted by well-trained guides that lead you on a game drive. Akagera national park is a home of quite a variety of wildlife including some of the big 5 – Lions, elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, and leopards. There are also other animals such as hyenas, zebras, hippos, giraffes, crocodiles, cape elands, impalas, wide-eyed bush-babies, warthogs, oribi, bushbucks, sitatungas. There are more than 100 elephants in Akagera national park today. There are also primates in Akagera national park such as olive baboons, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys as well as silver monkeys.
More than 525 bird species have been recorded in the park, this makes Akagera national park a birdwatcher’s true destination. A very good birder can spot more than half of the recorded bird species in a single trip, pretty much a new bird to discover each day.
The rare shoebill stork that many bird lovers search for can be spotted here. Other birds in Akagera national park include: raptors, long-crested eagle, shoebill stocks, lesser kestrel, pied crow, African kingfisher,
yellow-bellied eremomela, great sniper, fan–tailed widowbird, northern brown-throated weaver, viellot’s black weavers, the Zambian arnot chat, papyrus gonolek, suaza shrike and the long tailed cistola, and many other colorful birds.
Akagera national park has so many attractive things that can be best admired up close. Nature walks in Akagera national park allow you to see attractions up close. The exotic plants, colorful butterfly species, the swamps, the water the lakes, the aquatic birds, the smaller animals that you couldn’t spot quite well during the game drive. Nature walks are very good opportunity to appreciate nature at a much slower and easier pace.
Game drives in Akagera national park are amazing, night game drives in the park are even more exciting. There are nocturnal animals in the park that you might fail to see during the day, but these are always active in the night time and so much easier to see. Animals you should expect to see in the night include leopards, civets, several cats and bush babies might be much easier to see during the night. Some birds are nocturnal too such as nightjars.
With so many natural water sources such as swamps, rivers, and lakes it is only right that you go on a boat ride on your visit to Akagera national park. Boat rides in Akagera national park are done on Lake Ihema. You will spot one of the biggest concentrations of Hippos in East Africa and crocodiles as well as so many water birds. Elephants and buffaloes are quite common along the shores of the lake Ihema.
For visitors who might want to go fishing, whether as a sport or for food, you can do some fishing in Lake Shakani one of the lakes in Akagera national park. The most common fish caught in lake Shakani are tilapia and catfish. As you do your fishing, you might see or hear hippos further nearby. Some fishing tournaments take place on lake Shakani the park every now then. If you want to take part in sport fishing you are advised to come along with your fishing gear.
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