Gabon Wildlife Experience, 8 Days


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TOUR INCLUDES
• Meeting and assistance upon arrival and departure
• Roundtrip airport/hotel transfers
• Hotel accommodation in the indicated properties
• Transportation in private vehicle 
• Experienced tour guide
• Admission to listed sites and events
• Meals indicated by  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

TOUR DOES NOT INCLUDE
• Cost of visa
• Meals not listed
• Travel Insurance
• Gratuity to driver and guide


Detailed Itinerary

Day 1 Libreville, Gabon

Arrive Libreville; meet assist and transfer to Hotel.

Overnight at Loango Lodge or Similar

Day 2 Introduction To Loango National Park

After breakfast, your safari guide will take you by piroque (a traditional Gabonese boat) to the mouth of the Louri lagoon, where you can enjoy the beach, the breathtaking rainforest and its natural inhabitants.

After lunch travel on foot or by 4x4 to experience the abundant bird and wildlife. After diner, enjoy unforgettable ethnic dances and music.

Overnight at Loango Lodge or Similar

Day 3 Megatrasect Track - Bush Circuit/ Loango National Park

After breakfast, (Dry Season/May - October) you will start the day early to explore one of the most beautiful , remote and untamed parts of Gabon. Our local guides will take you by boat to Akaka.

On your way to Akaka, you will experience the remoteness and unspoiled nature with an enormous diversity of birds, endangered animals and rare butterflies. After a barbeque lunch, your bush walk will start. . The walk includes parts of the very famous “Megatransect’, walked by Dr. Mike Fay (see National Geographic). (Wet Season/October -May)

Travel by 4x4 vehicle to Tassi Savana Camp which is close to the Gorilla Project of the Max Planck Institute where Gorilla and Chimpanzee families are habituated.

Overnight at Akaka Lodge or Similar

Day 4 St. Anne, Evengue: Gorilla Island

After a short 4x4 drive, you will be taken by boat to Mission St. Anne. At this gorgeous spot, you will discover one of Gustaf Eiffels towers.

In this very tranquil place, you will observe the famous missionary post and we have a short walk through the nearby bamboo forest.

We will have lunch at the small gorilla island called Evengue. Here you will observe a gorilla family ,meet with the scientists and learn about the gorilla rehabilation and conservation program.

Overnight at Akaka Lodge or Similar

Day 5 Lambarene: Albert Schweitzer

Today visit one of the most spectacular and historical places in Gabon, Lambarene, hometown of Albert Schweitzer. You will visit the hospital and experience the surroundings in which the Nobel Prize winner has worked for many years making history. Alternatively you may go eco-fishing , foot safari or visit the bird and bat island.

Overnight at Loango Lodge or Similar

Day 6 Louri River

Today there is a foot safari to Louri where there is an abundance of birds and animals In the afternoon travel by boat to visit with the ‘Chef du Canton’, the governor of the jungle where his family lives in this most remote area.

Overnight at Loango Lodge or Similar

Day 7 Libreville

After breakfast, transfer back to Libreville where you ill spend the rest of the day on a city tour visiting all poins of interest. Or fly to Sao Tome and Principe for a relaxing time on the beach of the least discovered islands of Africa.

Overnight at Hotel Monts De Cristal Libreville or Similar

Day 8 Departure

You may extend your stay in Libreville, fly to Sao Tome and Principe to relax on the beach of one of the least visited beach paradise in Africa or depart home with great memories.


Tour prices

January - December

Numbers
of travellers
Price per person in US $
Double Occupancy Single Supplement*
2 $ 5790.00 $ 875.00

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Tour hotels

Loango lodge is an exclusive small-scale lodge consisting of 7 bungalows all supplied with private terrace, air-conditioning, fan, mini bar, toilet and a shower with hot and cold water.

Most of the bungalows have a superb view on the calm river and overlook the National Park. The lodge has also 3 suites with many extra facilities such as an extra sitting room, bath, mini bar, hairdryer, coffeemaker and extra personal service and care. Both bungalows and suites are traditionally decorated.

Loango lodge is an exclusive lodge offering uninterrupted views of the luscious surrounding bush and overlooking the calm river that separates the lodge area and the national park.

The lodge is situated on the edge of Petit Loango National Park, famous for its variety of unspoiled landscapes and its inhabitants such as gorillas, chimpanzees, elephants, buffalos, leopards etc It is the perfect staging post from which to explore Petit Loango National Park

Akaka Camp is right at the riverside. From the comfort of the thatch-covered restaurant/lounge deck the view is one over the river, papyrus swamps and distant, high forest. At times, the wildlife, and especially elephants pass right through the camp
Settled in the heart of Libreville, Place of the Independance, in front of the Central Commissariat, The Monts de Cristal hotel respondes to the confort normes of an international 3 stars hotel. A professional team is at your disposition 24/7, every day in order to responde to your needs.


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