Akagera

Picture a national park in Africa. Most people would think about lions eating dears, wilderbeast in there thousants, but not in Rwanda. Akagera national park is in the east of the country, bordering Tanzania. The most common animal found in this park is the horsefly. The horsefly doesn't mind insect repellent and doesn't fly away if you wave your hand, you really have to flick it away, or kill it. After our stay the population of horseflies went down with about 10, the number of horseflies which had human-lunch went up with about ten and the inside of the car had some horsefly bodies in various poses on windows and floor. The stings remain itchy for days and the spots are rather big.

We stayed in Akagera lodge and left early in order to make the most of our day. The giraffes and zebras were quickly spoted. We also came across some buffelos and waterbucks. At some point two klipspringers blocked the road, but refused to give us a nice show of their jumping. The hippos seemed to have a party under water, so we only saw some noses. At the fishing vilage, were often hipos can be spotted, we stopped and got out the car. Hazel began yelling 'baboon, baboon!!' We were not impressed as we seen baboons before. What she meant was 'there is a baboon in the car!' The baboon came out of nowhere and was in the car before we all were out. The driver and guide yelled at it, but this didn't help. The baboon helped himself to some peanuts and bananas and went of. He stopped just 20 meters further to enjoy his lunch. We could come really close to it, it wasn't bothered, as if it knew we were not going to hurt it.



















So in short, it is not the best park in Africa, but we have a good baboon-story to tell.