Gabon Tourist Attractions

Exploring Gabon – Africa’s Last Eden

Discovering Gabon comprehensively may not be easily done at a snail pace. Reason, this Central African nation dubbed Africa’s Last Eden offers a lot to its visitors. Throughout your Gabon Tours, expect to encounter new travel experiences. Expect a spiced tour in an original natural destination still in its raw state bursting with a unique picturesque beauty.
Gabon is a land of unparalleled beauty. All you need to know is how best you have to enjoy this variety on a guided safari tour.
The country’s most striking features include its amazing national parks of Loango National Park, placed on the Southern Gabon Coast which is renowned for surfing hippos; Ivindo National Park- located on the wilderness of Eastern Gabon is recognized for its own eco-camps and nurturing elephants and gorillas; and Ivindo National Park, one of the most remote wildlife sanctuaries in Africa.
Gabon’s most fascinating feature is its eco-tourism potential which ranks it as Africa’s next ultramodern eco-tourist destination. Special tribute to former President El Hadj Omar Bongo, whose dignified declaration of 10% of Gabon land for national parks not only paved way ecotourism beauty, but opened up doors for eco-tourists, conservationists and travelers.
Gabon Tours are compassionate ventures for Gabon Holidays. The country is today an enthusiastic spot for the nature and wildlife lovers as it shelters a vast collection of wild creatures humming in their natural environments with several exciting opportunities for assertive travellers as they can indulge in adventurous activities such as trekking and hiking.

The spectacular Ogooue River

Places of Tourist Interest in Gabon

• Libreville – the Capital city. This swanky city boasts some ocean-view hotels, office buildings, wide highways, fancy shops and cavalcades of taxis; Libreville looks more like a Miami Beach in the making than a typical African city. The fallacy about Libreville is that it is one of the most expensive cities in the world. Every creature comfort is close to hand, but be prepared to pay for them.
• Loango National Park – this is a popular tourists spot. It is home to a vast collection of wildlife in Gabon. Wildlife-admirers commonly get engrossed viewing the huge and diverse concentration of wild mammals here. The present land mammals include huge elephants roaming along the sandy beaches and various species of whales and dolphins in the waters.
• Operation Loango – This is Gabon’s principle eco-tourism hub which utilizes tourists’ expenditure for funding the conservation programs. It is located in the Northern end of the Loango Park. A number of eco tourism projects are housed here including crocodile projects, whale, turtle studies and gorilla habitation programmes. Several lush eco-lodges and satellite camps that offer accommodation to the tourists are available.
• L’Eglise St-Michel – this is a uniquely constructed architectural church with 31 unusual wooden columns, carved by a blind Gabonese craftsman, each with a biblical outlook.
• Muse des Arts et Traditions –this is one of the most exciting traditions in Central Africa and definitely worth a visit as long as you can find it.
• Langoue Bai – In south Ivindo lies breathtaking Langoue Bai, a recently discovered wildlife sanctuary. Langoue Bai is a hub for larger animals such as forest buffalos, sitatungas, and red river hogs, elephants and gorillas.
  

  Langoue Gorillas

  It has gained a reputation as one of the places for Tourists would have an amazing opportunity to view this stunning wildlife at a comfortable distance by observing the area on one of the Bai’s three watch towers hidden in the forest edge.  Telescopes are provided to travelers so they can watch from the middle deck, without having to disturb wildlife researchers who are taking notes on the upper deck.