Park Entrance Fees for Akagera National Park 2023
Park entrance fees for Akagera National Park 2023 will offer you the great safari opportunity for your excellent safari experience in Akagera National Park where you engage yourself in the different safari activities that takes place in Akagera National Park for the incredible wildlife safari experience on a Rwanda safari. Akagera National Park has got the diverse safari activities that makes your safari the most special one that includes game drives where you spot the country’s big five mammals. Boat cruise on Lake Ihema that guides you to spot the beautiful and attractive water bird species and other animal species that comes along take drinking water or take a bath. As well Akagera National Park offers the tourists with the walking safari where the tourists tend to encounter with the various wildlife in the areas where the vehicles do not reach or access.
Park Entrance Fees.
| Entry fee/self-drive permit | 1 day/Night | 2 Nights | 3 nights | |||
| USD | RWF | USD | RWF | USD | RWF | |
| Rwandan/EAC Citizen | 16 | 15000 | 24 | 22,500 | 32 | 30,000 |
| Rwandan/ EAC Resident per person | 50 | 75 | 100 | |||
| International visitor | 100 | 150 | 200 | |||
| Rwandan/EAC Citizen 6 to 12 | 11 | 10,000 | 16 | 150,000 | 21 | 20,000 |
| Rwandan/EAC resident 6 to 12 | 30 | 45 | 60 | |||
| International visitor 6 to 12 | 50 | 75 | 100 | |||
Game drives in Akagera National Park
For the self-drive tourists, there is always an amount that are required for you to pay and this amount is payable on the daily notice per person of the vehicles that you use while your inside Akagera National Park.
| Other fees | Details | USD |
| Vehicle fees | Vehicle/mini bus (Rwandan/EAC registered) | 10 |
| Omnibus/bus/over lander (Rwandan/EAC registered) | 20 | |
| Vehicle/minibus (foreign registered) | 40 | |
| Omnibus/bus/over lander(foreign registered) | 100 |
Guide fees.
| Guides park and community free lance | USD | |
| Guide for self-drive game drive | Per guide half a day | 25 |
| Guide for self-drive game drive | Per guide/full day | 40 |
Activities in Akagera national park.
| 6 to 12 | Adults 13+ | Children | |
| Night game drives | Pp2.5 hours/vehicle, driver, guide/min2max7 | 40 | 25 |
| Fishing | Pp per day (own equipment) | 25 | 15 |
| Boat trip-scheduled morning/day | Price per pp/1 hrs/max 11 pax | 35 | 20 |
| Boat trip-scheduled sunset trip | Price per pp/1 hrs/max 11 pax | 45 | 30 |
| Boat trip-private, non-scheduled | Price per pp/1 hrs/max 11 pax | 180 | – |
| Camping | Price pp/ night | 25 | 15 |
| Price pp/min 4/4.5 hrs | 25 | 15 | |
| Behind the scenes tour | Group rate for 8 | 180 | – |
| A half a day max, 5 hours/vehicles, driver, guide max 7 | 180 | – | |
| Game drive day (AMC operated) | Full day/vehicle/driver, guide, max 7 pax | 280 | – |
| Community cultural experience | Various activities offered half day/min 3 pax | 30 | 20 |
| Walk the line | 7 km along the fence/min 3 pp approx. 3 hours | 30 | 20 |
| Rhino tracking | Min.2 pax and max 4 pax/only guests at Karenge Bush Camp | 75 | |
| Balloon safari | Min 2 pax and max 4 pax/only guests at Karenge Bush Camp | USD 45 (int.) USD 350 (resident) and USD 250 (Citizen) |
Night drives are done by the park (Akagera Management Company) and they provide a car, driver and spotlights. The Night drives begin at 5:30 pm and end around 8 to 8:30pm. As you can be picked and dropped at your lodge and only in the south of the park, Park Entrance Fees for Akagera National Park 2023.
Boat trips are like the following
7:30 to 8:30 am
9:00 to 10:00 am
3:00 to 4:00 pm
4:30 to 6:00 pm (sunset trip)
The private boat trips can be arranged and charged at a flat rate for the boat, not per person. And these should be booked at non-scheduled times starting between 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.
Rhino tracking, is done from the north of Akagera national park (Kilala plains) and therefore available to only guests staying at the Karenge Bush Camp that is located in the north overlooking the Kilala plains.
Other fees.
| Other fees | USD | |
| Tent hire | Per 6-man (3mx3m) canvas tent (south sites) | 20 |
| Recovery fee | Breakdown or assistance from the park | 70 |
| Recovery fee coasters | Breakdown or assistance from the park | 150 |
| Fines | For breaking any park rules and regulations | 150 |
| Landing fees | Per landing with in Akagera national Park | 50 |
| Research fee | Contact the management prior to any research | 200 |
| Ranger assistance fee | For researchers/per day/conditions apply | 25 |
| Commercial filming/photography | Per day. Contact the park for all filming | 300 |
Annual pass.
| USD | RWR | ||
| Rwandan/ EAC Citizen | Single pass | 95,000 | |
| Rwandan/EAC Citizen | Couple pass | 150,000 | |
| Rwandan/EAC Citizens | Family Pass | 205,000 | |
| Rwandan/EAC Resident | Single pass | 300 | |
| Rwandan/EAC Residents | Couples pass | 500 | |
| Rwandan/EAC Residents | Family pass | 700 |
Note, the Annual fees do not include the park fees and only a 10% discount is offered on activities, and here you have unlimited tourist entry for a period of one year.
