Day 1: Pick Up and Transfer to Akagera National Park

After your breakfast, our driver-guide will come to pick you up from the airport or at your hotel/residence in Kigali. Then, you’ll drive for a good 2 hours and 30 minutes heading to Eastern province. You’ll reach the park reception, register from the park reception, and go to check in at your booked hotel. You’ll have your lunch. Afterward, our driver-guide will take you for an afternoon game drive. After that game drive, you will get ready for a boat trip at Lake Ihema to explore aquatic species such as hippos, crocodiles, and many water birds like, Cormorants, African fish eagles, kingfishers, African darters. After a good 1 hour 30 minutes of the boat trip, the driver-guide will bring you back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 2: Full-Day Game Drive in Akagera National Park

In the morning, after your breakfast at your lodge, with your packed lunch, a Lion Safaris driver-guide will come to pick you up. You’ll go for a full-day game drive from the south of the park up to the north of the park where there are very open and flat plains(Kilala and Muhana). You’ll enjoy your picnic lunch at one of the picnic points and at the same time watch animals as well.
After enjoying the game drive, the driver-guide will continue with you up to the exit. Then, you’ll drive back to Kigali and be dropped off at your hotel/residence or the airport for your flight back home.

This is the end of your 2-day trip in Akagera National Park with Lion Safaris.