The winter holidays were busy with very special family guests visiting from France. We took together a one-week adventure inside Gabon for the first time, with a guide all along. Many many things happened during this unforgettable trip, and it will take a few blog posts to tell about it.
Our first day was dedicated to traveling to Lambaréné, some 230 km from Libreville. 5 hours in a Toyota Hiace, which had air conditioning a very long time ago, before its petrol engine was swapped with a diesel. Pas de pitié! Go melt yourself! Feel the equatorial heat!
We crossed that special line after 125 km:
Then, just as we were getting hungry, the first lunch opportunities showed up:
How about a python? 
A giant lizard? Or a sitatunga?
Even though these are protected species, locals do have the right to live by their traditions and eat them, as long as it’s for their own consumption. We were not exactly in the mood for snakes or antelopes, even less for porcupine or pangolin (of which we spare you the sad sights on that page). But when we stopped in a small restaurant on the main square of Bifoun, it turned out the only meals left were an unbelievably spicy sort of river fish, and crocodile with cassava (what we call manioc in French). It was past 2 pm, we had to eat something. So we crossed another line and went for crocodile. Surprise: it’s good! White and a bit chewy, somewhere between chicken and fish.
Tanad stories from Gabon 