Embark on a game drive in Akagera National Park, the only easily accessible place to see the big five in Rwanda. Choose from a morning, afternoon, evening, or night game drive to spot some of the nocturnal animals within the park.

Enter the park at the main gate and spend the day making your way to the park’s northern Nyungwe gate. Wildlife populations are much higher in the north, so you have a good chance of seeing hyenas, leopards, topi, elands, and recently reintroduced Eastern Rhinos.

Keep an eye out for elephants, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, and recently introduced lions. Other antelope that can be seen during your game drives are giraffes, impalas, topis, zebras, bushbucks, African swallows, elands, vervet monkeys, warthogs, baboons, mongoose, hippos, and crocodiles.

There are over 120 elephants in the park and the other mammals also include the waterbucks, the oribi, reedbucks, the roan antelopes, sable, buffalos, and many more. Enjoy the most fantastic drive from the south to the north in a day to see many animals and take in magnificent views from the top of the mountain across Lake Ihema, which borders Tanzania.