Welcome to Uganda-Akagera National Park
This is Rwanda's largest national park with an area of 2, 500 sq kms (1,000 squire miles). It is undulating, even hilly, country with a mixture of bush and grassland savanna studded by an extensive chain of lakes that drain into Akagera River, which forms the parks eastern boundary, before eventualy flowing into lake Victoria and becoming one of the source of the Nile river.
In Akagera birds are the main strength and its wondeful place for ornithologist. More than 250 species can be seen, alive with cormorants, darters herons, storks and other water birds, bennett's woodpecker, the golden backed weaver, the short-tailed pipit, souza's shrike and the violet-crested turaco can all be seen in the Park. Other common animals species found freequently in the park are impala, plenty of topi, waterbuck, cape bufallo, small number of elephant, lion, leopard, serval cat, African hunting dogs, hyaena and jackals.
