Rwanda's Akagera National Park - Day One
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 11:43am
Rwanda has three national parks, Volcanoes, Nyungwe and Akagera. Akagera NP is in Rwanda’s Eastern Province and is different from the others in that the hills and mountains give way to savannah comparable to nearby Tanzania or Kenya. Here, you find elephants, cape buffalo, hippos, crocodiles, baboons, monkeys, zebras, topi, eland, giraffes, impalas, leopards, wart hogs and more than 500 species of birds. Akagera, like other protected areas that were resettled after the genocide, diminished in size from 2,500 km2 to 1,085 km2.
Our first afternoon in Akagera included a boat tour of a nearby island to view crocodiles and birds. The boat excursion and the trip to the launch didn’t disappoint.
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