Pongara lodge is a 45-min boat ride from Libreville. It’s located on the ocean side of the Pointe Denis, in the Pongara National Park. Just 8 bungalows and a restaurant area, very comfortable and all made of wood, overlooking the savannah and the ocean in the background. We come here for a couple of daysContinue reading “Pongara Lodge”
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Zilé
Cyril and the Tsam-Tsam boat take us back to the Dr Schweitzer hospital in Lambaréné. We just want to spend one more day here to discover the lakes on the North side of Lambaréné, upstream of the Ogooué river, and if we are lucky, to spot some hippos. Our motorcanoe captain for the afternoon isContinue reading “Zilé”
Tsam-Tsam time
School holidays! We have one week ahead of us and after many months sticking around the Libreville region, we are off to Lambaréné for the second time this year, only this time it takes a negative Covid test to get there. We are getting used to the gruelling 5-hour drive, however not yet to theContinue reading “Tsam-Tsam time”
Les Monts de Cristal
Bonjour ! At last, we’re back to discovering Gabon, after a long forced break. Sanitary measures are still in place, but they have been applied in a lighter way throughout the country since we came back at the end of August from our European Covid summer retreat. So on this last weekend of September, weContinue reading “Les Monts de Cristal”
Look in front, and watch behind
Our 1-week family adventure is coming to its end. We are driving on the new and empty highway to Port-Gentil in the company of Cédric, a car mechanic who regularly comes down from Libreville to Enamino to check and repair Philippe’s Land Cruiser and Hilux. He is Gabonese and Congolese, and a huge fan ofContinue reading “Look in front, and watch behind”
The Fernan Vaz lagoon
Back into the real world after Enamino, we find ourselves in friendly Omboué again. A boat is waiting to take us around the Fernan Vaz lagoon. This lagoon has a significant historical importance, as it has always been a transport and communication hub from and towards the villages of the deep interior, and became aContinue reading “The Fernan Vaz lagoon”
Off the map in Enamino
We have just left Loango behind and rejoined the main dirt road, when at some totally unmarked point our driver turns and takes the car onto the sand, through the savannah, the forest, the savannah, the jungle, and it’s shaking all over, and it’s the sea, the wind, the sound of the waves, and aContinue reading “Off the map in Enamino”
Loango
The sea, the savannah, the forest, beaches and lagoons. Put these together and you have a very unusual ecosystem called Loango, Gabon’s most famed national park. But because it’s Gabon and because Loango is hard to get to, “fame” is a very relative word, and as a visitor you get the privilege to have theseContinue reading “Loango”
La lagune d’Iguéla
This is still day 2 of our trip inside Gabon back a few weeks ago (before the world changed). After 5 hours riding along the Ogooué river, we are so happy to stretch our legs in the tiny village of Omboué, and we start wondering if the buzz that the motor of the boat putContinue reading “La lagune d’Iguéla”
Bat break
Let’s take a short break from the narration of our adventure inside Gabon and talk about bats today. It’s been a long time since we wanted to do so, as our closest neighbours in Libreville are bats, fruit bats to be precise. The very species that is widely talked about in these Covid-19 days. TheContinue reading “Bat break”
Tanad stories from Gabon 