Akagera National park

Today we travelled down to to the Akagera game park which is in the Eastern province. The land is much flatter herewith large plains covered with banana plantations and a lot of grazing lands for cattle. Our guide was Charles's cousin Everest. He was certainly a large and larger than life character;
who was very friendly caring and helpful with a wonderful knowledge of all the animals and where to find them.
We travelled in a long wheel base Toyota land cruiser with a roof which could be raised  so we could stand up inside and see the animals.

The group stopping for a break in our journey outside a lovely clean new fruit and vegetable which the government and providing instead of the ramshackle stalls

 We stayed for two nights in a lovely modern hotel in the park itself. In the afternoon we went on a short game drive, and we saw quite a range of animals and birds.

One of many impala we saw

Two young males

One of many zebra

We saw many more animals and birds in a short time and returned to the Lodge for a meal and a good nights sleep.