Overview
The Akagera Homestay Experience with Bonnie’s Tours & Adventures offers travelers a warm, community-based stay just outside Akagera National Park, Rwanda’s only Big Five wildlife destination. This immersive homestay is part of our women-led Community Homestay Exchange Network, designed to give guests an authentic, local experience while supporting families living around the park.
Guests enjoy comfortable rooms, home-cooked Rwandan meals, and the chance to engage in daily village life—from traditional cooking lessons and storytelling nights to banana beer brewing, cattle activities, and cultural performances. The homestay serves as a perfect base for game drives, boat safaris, birdwatching, and nature walks inside Akagera.
By staying here, travelers directly support women, youth, and conservation-friendly livelihoods, helping reduce human–wildlife conflict and creating sustainable income for rural communities.
The Akagera Homestay Experience combines wildlife adventure, cultural immersion, and responsible travel, making it ideal for families, solo travelers, photographers, and anyone seeking a genuine connection to Rwanda’s eastern savannah.
Highlights
- Enjoy an authentic community-based homestay just outside Akagera National Park, Rwanda’s only Big Five safari destination.
- Stay with a welcoming local family that is part of our women-led Community Homestay Network, created to empower rural women and youth.
- Sleep in comfortable rooms and savor home-cooked Rwandan meals, prepared with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
- Join immersive cultural activities: traditional cooking, storytelling nights, banana beer brewing, cattle experiences, basket weaving, and community performances.
- Use the homestay as your base for Akagera game drives, boat safaris on Lake Ihema, birdwatching, and guided nature walks.
- Directly support conservation-friendly livelihoods, helping reduce human–wildlife conflict and creating sustainable income for families living near the park.
- Perfect for families, solo travelers, photographers, and anyone seeking a meaningful blend of wildlife adventure and cultural immersion in Rwanda’s eastern savannah.
