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Located on the coast 250 km to the South of Libreville, Loango stretches
over 100 km of wild uninhabited coastline. In this magic place, elephants,
hippopotamuses, red buffaloes, sitatungas, and sometimes gorillas
wander on the white sand beaches or concentrate in marshy areas. Lagoons,
savannahs, ocean and forest all offer a varied habitat and constitute
a mixed ecosystem that exists nowhere else in the world.
Operation Loango – a private conservation and ecotourist development
programme, has been working with environmental NGO’s and the
Ministry in
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Red rivers hogs
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charge of Fauna to study the various species present and then to protect
them.
For the comfort of the visitors, this organisation has set up a superb
lodge for visitors with ten comfortable bungalows with shower and
bathroom, fans and air conditioning, and a magnificent dining hall
with a bar looking over the Iguéla Laguna in front of the park.
The Loango Lodge is the central meeting place for the Loango Operation
activities: Visits of the park in 4-wheel
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drive vehicles, river and lake safaris in dugout canoes, hiking on the
wild beaches, observation safaris in the densest parts of the forest
to see the big game, deep-sea fishing with the strict application of
navigation rules.
Between June and September, the humpback whales come along the coast,
sometimes accompanied by dolphins and orcs. Outings on the ocean with
a hydro-jet perfectly adapted that allows you to approach them and admire
their games and extraordinary jumping into the air. During each outing
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Iguéla Loango Lodge, Restaurant
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Bungalow Loango Logde
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study team accompanies the
visitors and gives them interesting information.
Stay in Iguéla-Loango
There are regular round-trip flights from Libreville and Port-Gentil
to Omboué every Friday and Monday morning. Then you take a
4-wheel drive from Omboué to the Iguéla Lodge where
you have all your meals, in addition to outings every day in the park
to see the animals.
Variations and Options
-Observation safaris in the Loango Park are according to season for
either the coastal or the marsh areas:
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- from June to September: Observation outings for the humpback
whale;
- from November to March: Night outings to see the turtles who come
to lay eggs on the
beach;
-Both the Fernan Vaz and Loango Laguna: When arriving in Omboué,
you take a boat to the
Island of Petit Evengué – the reinsertion site for
the gorillas, you spend the night on the island, you visit the St.
Anne Mission and then go to Iguela;
-Big game fishing: tarpons, barracudas, carangas, red snappers,
captain – that are often very big.
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Elephant on beach
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This tourist site
is included in the
following tours:
Discovery
of the Coastal Ecosystem
The Big Game Mammals
Ornithology Tour
Land and Ocean Mammals
Discoveriwng Gabon
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