Schlagwort: Regenwald

Arboretum Raponda Walker (Foret de Mondah)

We spent the last days of our journey through Gabon in Libreville, but we had planned one last excursion. This should lead us to the Foret de Mondah, a forest at the northern tip of the Libreville peninsula. Beyond that peninsula, there is already Equatorial Guinea. Parts of the Mondah forest had been cleared in […]

Return to Lopé – Rückkehr nach Lopé

We tried to reach Loango National Park from Mayumba in the south, but when we called there, they brusquely told us that they were fully booked and camping not allowed. That only made us shrug indifferently. Gabon doesn´t want tourists, we already got that! Wir versuchten noch, von Mayumba aus den Süden des Loango Nationalparks […]

Lac Bleu

By far the main attraction of Mouila and its surroundings is the Lac Bleu, the blue lake a few kilometres south of the city. It is linked to Ngounié river and accessible in no more than fifteen minutes on a rough dirt road. Despite the murky water of Ngounié river, the water of the lake […]

Cruising mighty Oogué – Bootsfahrt auf dem Oogué

The largest, longest and most important river of Gabon is the Oogué. The Oogué river flows between its source in the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) and the estuary north and south of Port Gentil 1.200 km away, fed by many tributaries of which the Ngounié river is the most important. The Ngounié river runs parallel […]

Lambaréné – Visiting Albert Schweitzer – Zu Gast bei Albert Schweitzer

Lambaréné is situated southeast of Libreville on the banks of the mighty Oogué, the “Congo of Gabon”, before it branches out, feeding several lakes and flowing into the Atlantic Ocean in a giant delta 100 kilometres west near Port Gentil. The town lies in the middle of dense rainforest, just like in the times of […]

Lopé

We were lucky because the van actually brought us to Ndjolé without thrombosis, bruises or other injuries. At the market in Ndjolé, we had to accept the fact that there was no way how we could reach La Lopé by road on that very day, so we took a taxi to the train station a […]