At Loango Lodge, days begin on the lagoon.
You glide silently through mangroves, watching forest buffalo, sitatunga, hippos entering the surf, and sometimes a solitary elephant emerging on the shoreline at sunrise.
It feels like witnessing the world before the world.
At the heart of the park lies the Loango Gorilla Project, one of Central Africa’s most advanced scientific programs.
Here, you meet primatologists, researchers, and expert trackers who devote their lives to studying habituated gorilla families.
Walking beside them, learning to read the forest, following fresh nesting sites ; until the moment when a silverback appears among the ferns ; is one of Africa’s most powerful experiences.
Farther inland, the Lopé National Park reveals a different face of Gabon:
a unique mosaic where rolling savannas meet ancient rainforests, home to the world’s largest mandrill troops and to forest elephants crossing sunlit clearings.
From the Lopé lodge, you explore some of Central Africa’s most striking landscapes ; plateaus, valleys, mist-covered hills ; a meeting point of ecology, beauty and pure wilderness.
Travelling through Gabon means accepting to be a witness, not a protagonist.
It is an immersion into a raw, scientific, authentic Africa ; with the comfort that matters, and the rarest luxury of all:
the truth of the wild.
Region :
Central Africa
Style :
Primary rainforest, wild coastline, scientific programs, confidential camps
Ideal period :
June to September (dry season) ; November to February (leatherback turtles)
Average duration :
10 to 14 days
It begins with a complimentary 30-minute discovery call.
A discreet, focused conversation to understand your expectations and guide you with clarity and experience.
7 to 10 days
Libreville - Pongara - Loango Lodge
A first step into an untouched world.
Boat transfer to Pongara, deserted beaches, mangroves, leatherback turtle viewing (seasonal).
Then Loango Lodge: boat safaris, elephants on the beach, gentle exploration of coastal forests and lagoons.
10 to 14 days
Loango Lodge - Akaka Forest Camp - Habituated Gorilla Scientific Program
A deeply human, naturalist journey, unique in Africa.
Two full days with the Loango Gorilla Project: meetings with scientists, forest walks with primatologists, observation of habituated gorilla families.
Akaka exploration: swamp forests, mandrill territories, remarkable biodiversity.
14 to 18 days
Loango Lodge - Akaka Forest Camp - Lopé National Park
A rare journey for travellers seeking Africa's most authentic and untouched wilderness.
Complete exploration of Loango: gorillas, forest elephants, wild beaches, lagoons and forests.
Then Lopé: rolling savannas, dense rainforest, mandrill troops, elephant clearings at dawn.
Hiking on the hills, forest-edge observation, vast open views over one of Central Africa's most striking ecological mosaics.
Schedule your discovery call and begin imagining your journey through Gabon.
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