Community cultural tours in Akagera National Park take you through the nearby local communities for you to interact with local people living around the park. A community cultural tour in Akagera National Park is the best way for you to spice up your safari experience before or after exciting wildlife encounters in the savanna plains of Akagera National Park. You can get the best of your cultural experience at Akagera National Park with help of tour operator guide or freelance community guide.
Community cultural tours in Akagera National Park take you through 4 distinct cultural experiences; the heritage-what is best described as a culture of cattle, the local production-beer and bees; art and craft and lastly celebration-food and festivities. Each of these community cultural experiences takes you through unique experiences ranging from milking a cow, sampling honey on the comb to food preparation, indulging yourself in exciting traditional and cultural dances as well as making the Imigongo paintings. To have a complete cultural experience in this area, you need 3 hours and this may cost you $20.Book Now
Meeting the Local People
The Humure refugee village tour
Humure refugee village is 40 minutes’ drive away from Akagera National Park. A cultural tour in Humure refugee village gets you the opportunity to pay a visit to the local cooperatives and also have the opportunity to enjoy the thrilling dances and be part of cooking. Visitors on Humure refugee village tour drive from the southern side of Akagera National Park through the scenic Lakes to the north and then finally you get to Mutumba Hills. The available safari lodges or accommodation options in this area include Ruzizi Tented Camp (Luxury), Akagera Game Lodge (Mid-range).
The Imigongo Art and Craft Centre
Imigongo Art and Craft Center is one most popular cultural sites that you shouldn’t miss exploring while on cultural safari in Akagera National Park. It was designed by Prince Kakira and it is run by a group of women who had a common idea of using the cow dung to decorate a house. The mission of Imigongo Art and Craft Center is to create, innovate Imigongo art making as a way to create jobs for the youth and women in rural areas in Rwanda. It was founded by Charles Ashimwe and Zacharie Ngenzi. A cultural tour at Imigongo art and craft center allows you to observe and engage in the whole process of making the art pieces.
Heritage
The heritage takes you through a unique cultural experience where you will engage in milking a cow and also explore the rituals around milk and how it is treated and preserved. Other things to learn include traditional and modern methods of beekeeping or learn about local production-that are making of banana beer.
Embarking community cultural tours is the best way to support communities that live adjacent to Akagera National Park. To get the best of cultural safari experience in Akagera National Park, then count any one of the above cultural experiences a must to do and you will be rewarded with unforgettable experience. Rwanda is a diverse place of local hospitable people with hundreds of communities living around national parks. In Volcanoes, the SACOLA Community is popular that has brought together communities around together to share a common goal of together in improving their standard of living through tourism