Lope National Park Tours
Some of the regular sights include congo serpent eagle vermiculated fishing owl spot breasted ibis nightjar bush shrike long tailed hawk forest swallow rachel s malimbe helmet shrike cuckoo shrike eagle owl.
Lope national park tours. From langoue we move to lope national park. Lope national park no other region in central africa is considered more vital for primates than lopé national park the oldest and one of the most astounding biospheres on the african continent. Lope national park is beautiful but as with all of gabon the accommodations are often sub par and the wildlife is hit or miss. Lope national park overland tours an overland trip is for those who are young at heart who wish to journey into remote areas of lope national park in a truck for a true wilderness experience.
Continued from road trip around gabon part 1. But isn t this part of the charm of going to gabon it s still rugged and less touristic than nearly anywhere else you can go in the world. Covering 4970 sq km it is mostly rainforest with some ancient savannah in the north. The lopé national park is a protected site of gabon inscribed since 2007 on the unesco world heritage list under the name of ecosystem and cultural landscape relic of lopé okanda.
There are more elephants here than anywhere else in africa. It is part of the world heritage forest program. We ve got 5 tours going to lope national park starting from just 86 days in length and the longest tour is 229 days. This tour is a journey into pristine wilderness areas and a world untouched by modern life.
The most popular month to go is november which has the most number of tour departures. Lopé is the best place in africa to see mandrills up to 1350 gather at a time. One of the most accessible of gabon s national parks lopé offers rainforest and savannah teeming with apes elephants and birds. There are several birds in lope national park many sighted around mikongo camp.
It is described as mixed because it is remarkable for its forest as well as its remnants of past cultures. Tour description one of the most accessible of gabon s national parks lope national park offers rainforest and savannah teeming with apes elephants and birds.