Rwanda Wildlife safari
Rwanda Wildlife safari
Rwanda Wildlife safari : Rwanda is a small landlocked country that any guest looking for a typical African safari with wildlife can visit. The Rwanda wildlife safari can be blended with visits to other parks in the country is a period of 10 days. It is possible to visit all the four national parks of Rwanda in a space of 10 days. The Rwanda wildlife safaris are done in 4 wheel drive safari vehicles with a trained ranger guide who is much knowledgeable about the area.
Rwanda offers wildlife safaris where guests get to see the big 5 animals which are the lions, African leopards, African bush elephant, African buffalo and rhinos. Besides the big 5 animals, there are other smaller wild animals that make up the wildlife areas of the country. Book your once in a lifetime Rwanda safari to the wildlife parks of the country.
Rwanda is blessed with a lot of wildlife and these are found in the four national parks of the country and these include Volcanoes national park, Gishwati Mukura national park, Nyungwe forest national park and the Akagera national park. Each of these national parks has an outstanding wildlife attraction.
THE RWANDA WILDLIFE DESTINATIONS
The Volcanoes national park
The Volcanoes national park is the most visited national park and this park is located only 2 hours away from Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda making it easily accessible. The Volcanoes national park is sitted on an area of 160 square kilometers which is approximately 62 square miles and within this area is abundant flora and fauna species thriving in their wild state.
The Volcanoes national park is famous for being the home to several hundred of the only last remaining mountain gorillas in the world. Guests who visit the volcanoes national park can look out to trek the mountain gorillas and a permit for this day in the wild goes for 1,500 USD.
Besides the mountain gorillas, the other wildlife you can visit or spot while in this park includes the golden monkeys, and the other monkey species while on a trek in the park. A permit to trek the golden monkeys goes for 100 USD. The spotted hyena has been spotted in the Volcanoes national park as well.
Other wildlife that have been spotted in this park include the bush bucks whose population is estimated at 1,760 to 7,000 plus as well as the forest elephants. These are rare sightings but on a good and lucky visit to the park, guests can spot them.
The Nyungwe forest national park
The Nyungwe forest national park located in the Nyungwe forest is one or even the most biologically diverse place in Rwanda. The Nyungwe forest national park is located in the southern province of Rwanda close to the land border of Rwanda-Burundi and Rwanda-DR Congo.
The Nyungwe forest is a home to chimpanzees and most guests looking for a wildlife experience in this part of the country usually engage in chimpanzee trekking and a permit goes for 90 USD per person. Nyungwe forest national park is estimated to be sitted on an area of 970 square kilometers and within this territory is 13 other primate species, approximately 85 mammals, 38 reptile species and about 32 amphibian species which is much more of the wildlife to expect in this park.
A few of the wildlife species you can spot on your visit to the Nyungwe forest national park include the chimpanzees, the black and white colobus monkeys, the grey cheeked mangabeys and the Angola colobus.
The Nyungwe forest is an area of high priority and is one of the conservation hot spots in Africa as a continent. The Nyungwe forest is in close proximity with the Gishwati Mukura national park that is also a home to a chimpanzee family. You can also spot the golden monkeys and the L’hoest’s monkey and the blue monkey in this 34 kilometer squared national park.
The Akagera national park
The Akagera national park is the only savannah national park of the country and is sitted on an area of 2,500 square kilometers and is located close to the land border of Tanzania and Rwanda and offers ideal safari game drives. Guests looking to see the big 5 all in one national park can visit the Akagera national park.
The Akagera national park is a home to the lions, leopards, rhinos, buffaloes and elephants among the many wild animals in the park. On a game drive in the Akagera, guests get to spot more wild life like the different antelope species like the kobs, oribis, topis, cape eland which is the largest of them all.
While on a boat cruise on the Lake Ihema in the Akagera national park, guests get to spot a big concentration of hippos and crocodiles in their wild natural habitat.
Best time for a wildlife safari
The best time to visit Rwanda for a wildlife safari is in the dry season which runs from the middle of December to February and again from June to September. The wet months are also great times for visitors who prefer to enjoy unlimited resources as competition is less with the less numbers visiting in this period. Get in touch and let us plan your ideal Rwanda wildlife safari.
