THEME: Safari and Cultural Tours
RANGE: Comfort
DURATION: 9 Days
ARRIVAL: Libreville
DEPARTURE: Libreville
LEVEL SPORTIF: 2 to 6 hours walk
TRAVEL PERIOD:
Meet & greet with a guide and vehicle transfer to hotel.
Overnight at Radisson Blu Okoume Palace Hotel or Park inn
After breakfast, transfer to the airport then flight to Port Gentile, arrival welcome by our team then direction for whale watching, return and lunch in a village near Port Gentile then back to hotel in the evening.
Overnight at Hotel Bougainvillier or Similar
After breakfast, drive to Loango, arrival and installation in hotel for lunch then in afternoon you’ll begin with safari in the savannah to see more wildlife such elephants, buffalos or hippos at the beach. Overnight in Loango Camps
After breakfast drive to the Max Planck Gorilla Habituation and Research Project. The trip will take upwards of 45-minutes. Enter the forest on foot following a team of Pygmy master-trackers, whose daily task it is to track the family of 18 western lowland gorillas including the mighty silverback. .After lunch in hotel, we’ll continue with safari in the savannah to see more wildlife such elephants, buffalos or hippos at the beach.
Overnight in Loango Camps
After breakfast, we take a boat for 7 hours from Loango to Lambarèné, lunch in bivouac and continuation to Lambarene , arrival and installation at hotel. At night, you will attend a Bwiti ceremony. The bwiti (or bwete, bouiti, bouity, mboeti, mbueti) is a rite of passage which is said to have originated with the Pygmies, who would then have transmitted it to the Mitsogo, the Apindji and the Sango, who themselves have it transmitted to the other ethnic groups of Gabon. Overnight at Hotel le Refuge
After breakfast, visit Albert Schweitzer Museum, an old hospital, A Doctor that came to Gabon and became famous for the job he has done in medicine. Then departure to Lope National Park by 4 x 4 vehicles. The drive takes up to 5 hours. Have lunch on the way. Arrival in Lope evening check – in.
Overnight at Lope Hotel
After breakfast, mandrill tracking a slow walk during the day to track mandrills in their environment. They will also have the opportunity to take pictures to immortalize these exceptional and unique moments. After lunch in hotel, we drive to the savanna for the game drive and return back to hotel in the evening.
Overnight at Lope Hotel
After breakfast, departure for Libreville, on a journey of 6 hours of roads, we will cross this vast forest from village to village to arrive in Libreville in the afternoon. African lunch possible along the way, arrival and installation at the hotel. Overnight at Radisson Blu Okoume Palace Hotel
After breakfast, Libreville city tours with the local guide, lunch in restaurant and comeback in hotel afternoon and transfer to international airport.