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is a twelve-day tour allowing you to see several very different regions
that you can take all year around.
After your arrival in Libreville where you spend one night, you will
take the train to the Lopé National Park, going along the magnificent
Ogooué Valley.
Once in the comfortable Lopé Hotel, you will be taken by one
of the excellent guides to the savannahs to watch for the herds of elephants,
red buffaloes, red river hogs or isolated antelopes, such as the sitatungas
or the yellow-backed duiker.
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Swimming Pool at the Lopé Hotel |
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Ogooué Valley |
It’s on foot that you can best tour the forest and discover
the botanical and fauna wealth of this superb park. In a dugout
canoe on the rapids of the Ogooué River, you can go to
the site of the cave drawings dating back to over 500 years before
Christ.
It’s back to the train to go to Moanda in the Franceville
region where you will then have a car to go to the Lékédi
Park. From the park hotel with its simple but suitable comfort,
you can visit the various areas wherein hundreds of animals find
shelter.
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over the forest allows you to make exciting observations of the fauna
on top of the tall trees, as well as the mandrills who live just below
the treetops. An orphanage for chimpanzees has been set up on a small
island, and here we can observe the monkeys from a motorised boat. You
can also discover the various activities of this interesting project:
the weaving of ‘raphia’ fibres, fish culture, the growing
of mushrooms, pottery and the museum on the history of the long cable
car once used to transport manganese.
Return to Libreville by plane to get another flight to Omboué
where you get a boat to go to the Petit Evengué Island in the
Fernan Vaz Lagoon. |
Chimpanzee in Lékédi
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Wild Beach in Iguéla |
Return
to Libreville by plane to get another flight to Omboué
where you get a boat to go to the Petit Evengué Island
in the Fernan Vaz Lagoon. The visit of the island and the discovery
of the entire forest, the savannahs, the lagoon which characterise
this region is quite interesting. The visit of the island and
the discovery of the entire forest, the savannahs, the lagoon
which characterise this region is quite interesting. In addition,
you can listen to the researchers who will share with you their
experiences working on the reinsertion of the gorillas on this
island. |
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addition, you can listen to the researchers who will share with you
their experiences working on the reinsertion of the gorillas on this
island.
During the night on the island, you can hear the incredible concert
of all kinds of calls and cries of the animals. When leaving the island
to go back to the National Loango Park, you can visit the St.Anne Mission
of Fernan Vaz and its exceptional metal church made by the Eiffel workshop,
and then you can go back to the coast with its beautiful wild beaches.
The comfortable Ye Tsanou Lodge, located on the edge of the Iguéla
Lagoon, |
will be your base when exploring
the park. Led by experienced guides, you will discover the various
aspects of this very beautiful coastal park: Lagoon, savannahs,
forests, rivers and wild beaches are all sources of very rich
fauna life. The flight from Omboué to Libreville will
allow you to go back to the capital to get your international
flight. |
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