Wilderness Safaris is expanding its offerings in Rwanda. The company will open a new camp, Magashi, in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park in mid-December.
The camp is being developed in partnership with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and African Parks, and will comprise six tents.
Magashi will be in the north-eastern part of the national park, overlooking Lake Rwanyakazinga, and will have views of one of the highest densities of hippos in Africa. Guests will also see crocodile, the elusive sitatunga, and shoebill storks that inhabit the wetlands.
African Parks, with the assistance of the Howard G Buffett Foundation, and in collaboration with the RDB, has managed Akagera since 2010. The organisation has managed the park successfully and in 2015, after a 20-year absence, African Parks reintroduced lions followed by Black rhino in 2017.
Grant Woodrow, Chief Operations Officer of Wilderness Safaris says: “This new Classic Camp will not only offer our guests an extraordinary savannah experience but one that is strongly rooted in a core purpose – to help conserve Rwanda’s last protected savannah ecosystem and species like shoebill and Black rhino.”
As gorilla tourism continues to grow in Rwanda, Woodrow comments that Magashi Camp could now complete the safari experience for visitors to the country. Tourists can see gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, savannah wildlife at Akagera and chimps and other primates on the western side of the country. “Rwanda offers a complete standalone high-end safari experience,” adds Woodrow.
