Rwanda

Rwanda is located in East Africa and has extensive natural beauty. Expeditions visit volcanoes, waterfalls, and rainforests that are home to many different African animals. Virunga National Park is a stop center for all Rwanda gorilla safaris and shelters many mountain gorillas. Being a roughly two-hour drive from the Kigali International Airport makes it the most accessible gorilla national park in the world. Volcanoes National park is also home for golden monkeys, an endangered species.

Rwanda is also home to one of the oldest rainforests in Africa, Nyungwe Forest National Park. The Park is famously known for chimpanzees, as well as 12 other primate species, including the L’Hoest’s monkey endemic to the Albertine Rift.

Akagera National Park in the Eastern part of the country stands as the only Savannah Park in Rwanda. It is home to elephants, buffalo, giraffe, zebras, leopards, hyenas, lions, and several antelopes like bushbucks, topis, oribis, water-buck, roan antelope, duiker, klipspringer, impala, and world largest antelope, the cape eland. Visitors can watch schools of hippos and Nile crocodiles basking in the sun near Lake Ihema.