RWANDA PARKS & GAME RESERVES
Akagera National Park
AREA: 1,122 SQ KM
Akagera National Park is located in the north east of Rwanda along the border with Tanzania. Although founded in 1934, much of the park was re-allocated as farms and in 1997 the park was reduced in size from more than 2,500 sq km (nearly 10% of the surface area of Rwanda) to its…
Volcanoes National Park
AREA: 160 SQ KM
Volcanoes National Park is 160 square kilometers in size; it is the oldest national park in Africa, established in 1929 as the Albert National Park. In 1967 famous for mountain gorillas, the American zoologist, Dian Fossey, who had been doing research on Mountain Gorillas in the…
Nyungwe National Park
AREA: 1,000 SQ KMS
Located in the South West corner of Rwanda, Nyungwe National Park is an untouched natural rain-forest that is filled with exciting biodiversity.
Covering over 1000 square kilometers, Nyungwe is surely one of the world’s most beautiful and pristine mountain rain-forests….