Akagera is Rwanda's only savanna park, occupying the eastern border with Tanzania. Here lakes, swamps, and rolling highlands replace the rainforests of the country's west with open grassland and papyrus-fringed waterways supporting species absent from the mountainous interior. The reintroduction of lions and rhinos over the past decade has restored the park's status as a Big Five destination. The park offers Rwanda's only Big Five experience, with lions, rhinos, elephants, leopards, and buffalo all present within a single reserve. The lake and wetland system along the eastern edge adds a dimension unavailable in East Africa's drier savannas, where boat safaris replace a second game drive, and hippos outnumber those in many larger parks. Rhinos and lions were absent a decade ago but were reintroduced, and the recovery continues under active management. Visitors looking for savanna wildlife without leaving Rwanda find it here, while those combining gorilla trekking with a traditional safari use Akagera to complete the contrast between forest and grassland.