Magashi Camp is a luxurious tented safari camp in Akagera National Park, with enchanting views over Lake Rwanyakazinga. Magashi Camp is a unique and inviting gateway into one of Rwanda’s most beautiful national parks. This luxury tented camp offers exclusive access to vast tracts of Africa’s best wildlife areas, creating a unique sense of seclusion, comfort, privacy and space, surrounded by some of East Africa’s most beautiful savannah, lakes, swamps and rolling grasslands.
Nestled along the shores of Lake Rwanyakazinga, Magashi offers eight spacious tented suites that invite you to experience an intimate wilderness setting, surrounded by breathtaking landscapes.
Set up at Magashi
The main area of the camp is perfect for spending leisurely afternoons between safari activities. You can choose to relax in the lounge, dining, and bar area, or enjoy the large viewing deck complete with a fire pit. There’s also a refreshing pool to cool off in after a day of game viewing and birdwatching. The camp’s design and interiors draw inspiration from traditional Rwandan culture, enhancing your immersive experience. Evenings are best spent on the deck around the fire pit, enjoying the serene surroundings.
Dining Experience
Meals at Magashi are designed with sustainability in mind, offering healthy flavourful recipes that tread lightly on the Earth. The menu heroes Rwanda’s indigenous ingredients, local dishes and fresh produce. Sample the famous ‘Rolex’ breakfast wrap – a signature choice – and a travelling Kugisha dinner, which is served with a collection of traditional stories and songs.
Experiences at Magashi Camp
As the region’s largest protected wetland, Akagera is the last remaining haven for Rwanda’s savannah-adapted species. Facing certain collapse in the 1990s, the park has been transformed thanks to focused conservation efforts and reintroductions. Now home to large herds of plains game, the park also has a healthy lion population. They were reintroduced in 2015 after an absence of two decades. Two years after the lions, black rhinos were also reintroduced, followed by white rhinos in 2020. The only exclusive-use area in Akagera, Magashi also boasts a fair number of leopards.
Witness the abundance of Akagera National Park from Wilderness Magashi. Home once more to an abundance of apex predators and their prey. Marvel at the lion, white and black rhino, buffalo and elephant roaming its hills and vast savannah. This is the quintessential East African safari adventure and the perfect complement to your gorilla trekking experience in Rwanda.
