Track collared mandrills on a trail to one of their secluded habitats with our expert tracker. Also visit the SEGC Field Station, where you can also learn more about the individual troops and environments [we only allow four guests on any single day to view them]. On a nighttime safari of the savannah, view the park’s nocturnal creatures including African civets or even a golden cat before returning to camp.                                                

• Where:                Lopé
• Camp:                  Moabi Tented Camp  
• Group:                 Up to 8 guests    

Retrace the epic Megatransect expedition and view the ‘lost natural world’ at Langoué baï — one of Central Africa’s five most important forest clearings. Watch WCS Gabon conservationists track and collate data on the forest elephants along with the largest gathering of forest mammals from the baï’s observation platform — a place where you can also make camp. Close to Kongou, you can trek  heart of Ivindo’s rainforest and sleep at a ‘nature’ camp by the river.

• Where:                 Ivindo 
• Camp:                  Kongou Forest   
• Group:                 Up to 6 adults                                                                                          

Visit the Wonders of Ivindo; Kongou Falls and Mingouli Falls [Djidji is optional trek and requires an extended itinerary]. Blaze the trail in search of western lowland gorillas. Enjoy nature walks through the lush rainforest teeming with wildlife. Glide along the Ivindo River by pirogue or in a drift boat past wading elephants, buffalos and hippos. Sleep at a classic Gabonese ‘nature’ camp in Ivindo’s rainforest.

• Where:                 Ivindo
• Camp:                  Kongou Forest
• Group:                 Up to 6 adults

• Where:                Loango 
• Camp:                 All park camps
• Group:                Up to 4 adults         

Enjoy a wilderness experience along mirrored estuaries amid hippos, crocodiles and varied birdlife is a highlight. Track the Atananga troop — a family of protected western lowland gorillas and the first to be habituated in Loango. View elephants in the forest and on the beach. Perhaps if you’re lucky, a surfing hippo or two. A wildlife safari trip to Loango’s savannah will also bring you as close to nature as possible. You can choose to stay at Loango Lodge or our satellite camps on the safari circuit [seasons apply].                             

• Where:                 Loango 
• Camp:                  All park camps
• Group:                 Up to 8 adults                                                         

Watch the largest migration of nesting sea turtles and visit a turtle hatchery. On a chartered boat excursion go whale watching in Pongara’s marine reserve.  Go on a nature walk and do some birdwatching. Take a drift boat through the estuary surrounded by hippos, forest elephants, birds and crocodiles. Track monkeys and chimpanzee high in the rainforest’s treetops. Your accommodation is right on the beachfront at Pongara Lodge.

• Where:                 Pongara
• Lodge:                  Pongara Lodge
• Group:                  Up to 12 adults

After a visit to Ivindo or Lopé  you can travel by road to Ndjole and onto Lambaréné. Here you can retrace the journey of Nobel-Prize laureate and medical missionary, Dr Albert Schweitzer at the Museum and stay at the Scheitzer Hospital Museum’s guest home. The following day, travel by a motorised pirogue along the Ogooué River to Omboué amid bathing hippos before completing the journey at Loango National Park.

• Where:                Lambaréné  
• Camp:                 Guest House
• Group:                Up to 6 adults