Tour Plan
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BRUSSELS-PARIS-AIRPORT-YAOUNDE
Arrival and welcome at N'Simalen international airport on arrival. Your guide will be waiting for you in the waiting hall with a signbearing the name of one of you. We will transfer you to Yaoundé, where you will arrive and settle in at the Hotel X* for check-in.Briefing. Dinner and overnight.
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YAOUNDE-BERTOUA-BATOURI (420km of tarmac; 6 hours)
Early wake-up call, breakfast and departure towards East Cameroon; first on a tarmac road, then you will take the then take the carriageable track through villages and fields,This route will take you directly to Batouri. Arrive and settle in the guest house run by the Catholic Missionaries. Dinner and overnight stay.
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BATOURI-NDELELE-GARI-GOMBO-YOKADOUMA-SALAPOUMBE (330 km of track; 6 hours of time)
Morning departure after breakfast on a track where you will come across several logging trucks in clouds of dust during the dry season, this route plunges you into the great equatorial forest, giving you a chance the opportunity to meet the local people in the villages.evening, and here we'll be sleeping in tents in the grounds of the Catholic Mission.
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SALAPOUMBE-MAMBELE-LOBEKE NATIONAL PARK (35 km of track; 1 hour's drive)
Early wake-up call, breakfast. Departure for the Lobéké National Park ‘Located in the province of East Cameroon, the Lobéké National Park, part of the Congo Basin, is situated in the extreme south-east of Cameroon. It covers an area of 217,854 ha. Created on 19 March 2001, the Park is managed as part of a cross-border conservation initiative known as the Sangha Tri-national (TNS). In addition to the Lobéké National Park, this priority landscape for biodiversity conservation includes the protected areas of Dzangha - Sangha (CAR) and Nouabalé-Nkoki (Congo Brazzaville). Lobéké has a network of marshy clearings, particularly on the eastern flank of the park, offering safari enthusiasts the chance to film elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys, thanks to the miradors available in the park, set up near the natural salt pans (or bays) for animal and bird watching. You'll be riding deeper into nature and lush green forest. The calm of the forest is an ideal way to enjoy a peaceful ride, with stops in villages to discover the daily life of the local people. Arrive in Mambele at the conservation office for entry formalities into one of Cameroon's best nature parks, where you will be accompanied by trackers, a guide and an eco-guard for total immersion in the heart of a primeval forest home to enormous animal species such as forest elephants, forest buffalo, lowland gorillas, Bongos, Sitatunga, hylochera, bushpig, and a colony of large Gabon parrots, green pigeons, butterflies, etc. Overnight in tents.
Wake up to the sounds of animals and birds. Breakfast. Day of animal observation in the park. Dinner and overnight in tents.
Early wake-up call by animal and bird calls. 2nd day of game viewing in the park. Dinner and overnight in tents.
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LOBEKE-MAMBELE NATIONAL PARK (35 km track; 1-hour drive)
Early wake-up, breakfast. Return to Mambele during the day and drive to Libongo through a stretch of forest that is part of the Lobeke National Park. Arrival in Libongo and check into a small inn. Dinner and overnight stay.
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MAMBELE-NGATO-GRIBE-MESSOCK (300 km of track; 7 hours)
Early wake-up call, breakfast. Full day of motorbike riding on the track, with the occasional chance to see animals crossing the road, and a visit to Pygmy camps. Arrival at Messok. Dinner and overnight.
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MESSOCK-NGOILA-DJOUM (150 km of track; 3 hours' riding time)
Early wake-up, breakfast. Departure for Djoum via Ngoila in the great forest of East Cameroon, generally on tracks laid out by logging companies. Arrive in Djoum and check into a country inn. Dinner and overnight
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DJOUM-OVENG-EBOLOWA (250 km of track; 4 hours)
Early wake-up call, breakfast. Departure for Ebolowa via Oveng, still on motorable roads, passing lorries carrying logs for export. Discover the villages along the way. Arrive in Ebolowa and check into your hotel. Dinner and overnight stay.
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EBOLOWA-AKOM 2 -KRIBI (200 km of track; 5 hours)
Early wake-up call, breakfast. Departure for Kribi, after a short stretch of tarmac road, you will continue your journey on tracks through numerous villages with short stops for visits and meetings with the various local populations and then on to Kribi. ‘The arrival at Kribi is striking; the ocean appears with its white sandy beaches stretching as far as the eye can see, bordered by rows of coconut palms. The Kribi coast is Cameroon's true riviera, a world where the equatorial forest meets the ocean. Londji, Cameroon's most beautiful beach, is a dream holiday destination. The Lobé Falls flow directly into the ocean in a series of cascades, a phenomenon that is unique in the world. In a magical setting, this river tumbles down a thirty-metre-high cliff, widening the sky with its spray’. Arrive in Kribi and check into the TARA Plage hotel. Dinner and overnight stay.
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KRIBI-CAMPO. (60 km of track; 2 hours)
Following the edge of the ocean on a track that is improved in places, you will arrive at Ebodje, an eco-tourist village where sea turtles come to lay their eggs on the beach. A stop is useful to see the life and activities on site, then continue to Campo with a small diversion to Campo Ma'an National Park just for a curiosity. Arrival in the small town of Campo. Check-in and overnight in a small hotel.
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CAMPO-KRIBI (60 km track; 2 hours)
A short tour of the Campo Ma'an National Park ‘Located in the south of Cameroon, close to the Atlantic Ocean, the Campo Ma'an National Park covers 264,064 hectares. It is dominated by two main types of relief: the northern part covered by mountains and a few plateaux, and the southern part covered by hills and small valleys. The overall altitude is less than 200m. The Park is part of the dense Guinean-Congolian evergreen rainforest, which remains green all year round. It is accepted that this area was a refuge for Central African species during the last Quaternary glaciation, hence its great diversity of flora and fauna. Inventories carried out to date reveal the following: 1,500 plant species (114 endemic), 80 large and medium-sized mammals, 390 invertebrates, 249 fish species, 112 reptiles, 80 amphibians and 302 birds. This large number of birds has led to the area being classified by Birdlife International as an ‘Area of Importance for Bird Conservation’. Among the site's mammals are some species of great importance, some of which are considered threatened (23 are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list), such as the giant pangolin (Mains gigantean), the African elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis), the lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the buffalo (Synerus caffer nanus), the panther (Panthera pardus) and the mandrill (Madrillus sphinx).The Park's Ebodje and Campo Beach are home to marine turtles (nesting, nesting and feeding grounds). Morning and return to Kribi and check into the hotel X*, relaxing on the beach in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay.
Early wake-up call, breakfast. A lazy day on the beaches and a visit to the famous Lobé waterfall, the only one of its kind in the world, which flows directly into the ocean, with the possibility of eating freshly caught lobster and fish by the beach.Evening at leisure. Night at Hotel X*.
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KRIBI-DOUALA (160 km of tarmac; 2h30) -BRUXELLE
Early wake-up call, breakfast. Relax on the beaches and in the afternoon departure for Douala. Arrival and stopover at the flower market, where you can buy objets d'art and do some shopping in the local produce shops, then head for the airport for departure formalities and your flight. End of your stay.