Hello! We have not written anything here in a long time. But all is still well in Gabon, we have started our third year here actually, and the four of us are fully busy at school or at work. We are lucky to have already seen quite a lot of the country, and we do want to see more, but at this point on our weekends we are happy to rediscover places we’ve already visited.
Such as Nyonié, this tiny village set on the ocean side of the Pointe Denis, a 3-hour boat and 4WD expedition from Libreville. It’s where we saw our first Gabonese elephants back in 2019, and fortunately they too are still around, the undisputed kings of this slightly lunar bit of coastal savannah, around which we roam at dawn during an unforgettable safari.
Besides the elephants, brown wild buffalos are plentiful, but let’s face it, they are as much fun to watch as a Normandia cow. For us, the unexpected stars of the morning hours are the birds: egrets, ibises, hamerkops, calaos… are much more visible than in the evening. See, even though we are still incapable of photographing them, we are at least starting to be able to call them by their real names.
Spend a weekend in Nyonié, and you’ll come back home to Libreville on Sunday evening with the feeling of having visited another planet. A friendly and green one on which time has not grip at all, full of mysterious wildlife, most of which remains fortunately hidden to the human eye.
If you’d like to know more about the amazing and secret wildlife around Nyonié, the best thing you can do is take fifteen minutes to watch some of these videos made by the local team with “trap” cameras set in front of giant mirrors in the middle of the forest: https://www.youtube.com/user/XHB06400CANNES/videos.
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