Cameroon Gorilla Safari - Douala to Dzanga Sangha
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Basic information
Location: Cameroon
Date: Tailor-made to suit your needs
Duration: 12 - 16 days
Group size: 1+ people
Price: From £2804 - £3235 including all accommodation from Day 1 to Day Day 11 or 15 inclusive, all transfers, guide fees, park entrance fees and activities listed, all meals except lunch and evening meal on the last day of the trip (Day 16 or Day 12).
Not including flights to and from Cameroon, visa fees, all drinks, personal purchases and tips.
What will I be doing on this trip?
We begin the trip in the fishing town of Limbe. With Mount Cameroon towering behind and surrounded by forest and beaches, Limbe is one of the most beautiful and pleasant towns in west Africa and home to Cameroon’s premier primate conservation project, the Limbe Wildlife Centre. Here we will be given an in-depth introduction to the issues facing conservation in this part of the world and meet up with the gorilla, chimpanzee and many other primate groups indigenous to the region.
We then set off on a 3 day journey to the south of the country. Our destination is the Dzangha Sanga Reserve just across the border in the Central African Republic.
With WWF conservationists and Ba’Aka pygmy trackers we trek into the reserve to see a recently habituated group of Western Lowland Gorilla, the only habituated gorilla in West Africa. In the clearings in the forest we will also see forest elephant, buffalo, antelope, Mangabee monkey and some of the wonderful birdlife only found in this region.
Location: Cameroon
Date: Tailor-made to suit your needs
Duration: 12 - 16 days
Group size: 1+ people
Price: From £2804 - £3235 including all accommodation from Day 1 to Day Day 11 or 15 inclusive, all transfers, guide fees, park entrance fees and activities listed, all meals except lunch and evening meal on the last day of the trip (Day 16 or Day 12).
Not including flights to and from Cameroon, visa fees, all drinks, personal purchases and tips.
What will I be doing on this trip?
We begin the trip in the fishing town of Limbe. With Mount Cameroon towering behind and surrounded by forest and beaches, Limbe is one of the most beautiful and pleasant towns in west Africa and home to Cameroon’s premier primate conservation project, the Limbe Wildlife Centre. Here we will be given an in-depth introduction to the issues facing conservation in this part of the world and meet up with the gorilla, chimpanzee and many other primate groups indigenous to the region.
We then set off on a 3 day journey to the south of the country. Our destination is the Dzangha Sanga Reserve just across the border in the Central African Republic.
With WWF conservationists and Ba’Aka pygmy trackers we trek into the reserve to see a recently habituated group of Western Lowland Gorilla, the only habituated gorilla in West Africa. In the clearings in the forest we will also see forest elephant, buffalo, antelope, Mangabee monkey and some of the wonderful birdlife only found in this region.
Alongside experiencing the wildlife of the forest you will also experience the unique culture of the Ba’Aka Pygmy people, staying in a village and going out on a forest hunt , thereby witnessing probably the oldest intact culture in the world.
There is an added extra option of a Mount Cameroon climb/trek. This is West Africa’s highest mountain. |  |
My holiday itinerary...
Day 1: Arrive in Douala. Day 2: Douala to Bertuoa Day 3: Bertoua to Yokadouma Day 4: Yokadouma to Libongo. Day 5: First taste of the Dzanga Sangha Reserve Day 6: The Gorillas and Monkeys of Dzanga Sangha Day 7: Canoe Trip and cultural experience Day 8: Hunting with the Ba'Aka Day 9: Libongo Day 10: Yakodouma - Bertuoa. Day 11: Douala or Limbe Day 12: Limbe (tour extension) Day 13 - 15: Mount Cameroon trek Day 16: Day in Limbe, to leave Douala from the evening. |     |
How to get to us...
By Air: Royal Air Maroc or Air France
By Car: With the company – on our Mali to Cameroon trip
Additional information
Services: All you need to survive. Accommodation is in 3* hotels and some camping
Note: These trips take you off the beaten track. There is not always a tourist infrastructure such as you may be used to. Be prepared for some flexibility.
How does this holiday make a difference?
The Limbe Wildlife Centre is at the forefront of the conservation of Cameroon’s indigenous but threatened primate populations. Gorillas, chimpanzees and the highly endangered drill monkey which only exists on the Nigeria/Cameroon border regions, are among the many primates at the centre. The main remit of the LWC is to rescue primates caught up in the bush meat trade, which, along with illegal logging, is the main reason for the destruction of primate populations in this part of the world. Adult primates are killed for bush meat and their infants are sold as pets. The LWC steps in at this stage and confiscates the infant. They are then re-socialised into groups at the centre with the long-term aim of rehabilitation in the wild. The LWC also works hard to educate local populations about the threat to their wonderful wildlife.
Company Ethos
This company aims to dispel a few myths and to show you a modern, vibrant, open, safe and progressing west Africa and to ensure that your trip has a positive impact on the communities which host you. Too often tourism in Africa centers around the amazing wildlife and stunning scenery whilst the most vibrant, colourful and fascinating aspect of Africa - its people - pass by the window of the 4x4. We try to reverse the focus by taking you out into some of the amazing communities which we have befriended over our 20 years of traveling this vast and extraordinary continent:
Where is it?
By Air: Royal Air Maroc or Air France
By Car: With the company – on our Mali to Cameroon trip
Additional information
Services: All you need to survive. Accommodation is in 3* hotels and some camping
Note: These trips take you off the beaten track. There is not always a tourist infrastructure such as you may be used to. Be prepared for some flexibility.
How does this holiday make a difference?
The Limbe Wildlife Centre is at the forefront of the conservation of Cameroon’s indigenous but threatened primate populations. Gorillas, chimpanzees and the highly endangered drill monkey which only exists on the Nigeria/Cameroon border regions, are among the many primates at the centre. The main remit of the LWC is to rescue primates caught up in the bush meat trade, which, along with illegal logging, is the main reason for the destruction of primate populations in this part of the world. Adult primates are killed for bush meat and their infants are sold as pets. The LWC steps in at this stage and confiscates the infant. They are then re-socialised into groups at the centre with the long-term aim of rehabilitation in the wild. The LWC also works hard to educate local populations about the threat to their wonderful wildlife.
Company Ethos
This company aims to dispel a few myths and to show you a modern, vibrant, open, safe and progressing west Africa and to ensure that your trip has a positive impact on the communities which host you. Too often tourism in Africa centers around the amazing wildlife and stunning scenery whilst the most vibrant, colourful and fascinating aspect of Africa - its people - pass by the window of the 4x4. We try to reverse the focus by taking you out into some of the amazing communities which we have befriended over our 20 years of traveling this vast and extraordinary continent:
- The landscape is merely the background to the colour music, vibrancy and hospitality of the people of west Africa. Throughout the trip food and water is bought en route and as locally as possible.
- Before your trip you will be sent our Responsible Travel guidelines, and en route you will be advised about changing cultural sensitivities.
- This trip minimizes waste by advising clients to follow the African example and recycle everything. You will see how a system that provides no waste disposal produces very little waste.
- We encourage you not to bring anything that we in the west count as disposable such as razors or wet wipes etc because in Africa they are not disposable.
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