Country Info
- Libreville
- Capital
- CFA Franc BEAC (XAF)
- Currency
- 1,221,175
- Population
- GA
- Country Code
Gabon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Gabon
Gabão a todo gás (Fr+Pt)
... la moindre occasion trouvée par ces gens pour nous exiger du fric ils s'accrochent comme des mouches à la merde. Bien heureusement, le Gabon fit l'exception pour mon grand soulagement. Cependant on ne me laissa pas passer la nuit à la frontière et on ...
Gabon's Story
... Wolves" and expected herds of bison to come stampeding over the far away rolling hills. What did seem to lack in all of Gabon was any signs of agriculture or commerce, apart from logging. It makes me wonder how sustainable the country's economy will be ...
Chasse aux visas
... première fois, on a refusé mon dossier, car je présentais un passeport valide qui ne contenait pas le visa du Gabon. Car à Libreville chaque consulat vérifie votre situation au Gabon. J'en profite pour gouter le hérisson, crocodile, la sauce odika ...
Parc National de la Lope
Le parc national de la Lope est facilement accessible par le train. Ce dernier étant la véritable colonne vertébrale du pays. Il est lent mais moderne. Lope était l'occasion de voir les mandrills mais ces derniers qui sont normalement radio-trackés, ...
Don't Try This At Home
... nbsp; The Bwiti religion has been practiced for hundreds of years in Central Africa especially in Gabon and neighboring Cameroon. Bwiti beliefs combine animism, ancestor worship, and varying degrees a Christianity ...
Day 115 - Gabon, Bush Camp - Heated Discussions
... mother taught me "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". Had lunch once in Gabon. No problem getting through the boarders. All very quick and easy. Yippeeeee just what we ...
Dinner with The Ship's Captain
Last night Matthew and I were invited to have dinner with the Captain. They hold fancy dinners, and rotate through the faculty and other participants for who to invite. We got invited via beautiful printed invitation (with our names printed in it - ...
Var är alla människor?
... nästan som om många av byarna övergivits, trots att husen verkade vara av mycket bättre standard än hyddorna i till exempel Kamerun. Gabon låter som ett spännande resmål och har faktiskt mycket att erbjuda om man kan snyta pengar ur näsan, ...
Day 115 - Gabon, Bush Camp - Heated Discussions
... mother taught me "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". Had lunch once in Gabon. No problem getting through the boarders. All very quick and easy. Yippeeeee just what we ...
0 degrees, 0 minutes & 10 seconds South - Equator
Heard over the intercom (spoken officially, and with a dry, British accent) "Hello. This is your Captain. In a few moments time, we will be crossing the Meridian Parallel or as you know it, The Equator. Due to ocean swells today, you will not ...
Equatorial Crossing ... & the antics that go w/it!
We crossed the Equator! Whoo hoo! We're in the southern hemisphere now, and we've been watching the stars from our balcony to see the changes in the sky. The weather is COMPLETELY different; sweatshirts are no longer needed, and the staff have been ...
Very Fatigue
... . A six o'clock departure from Douala took me first to Yaoundé where I would need to change buses to head south towards the Gabon border. I remember little of this journey, as I spent most of the time nodding to sleep and, inevitably, waking myself up ...
Leconi
Normalement on vient à Leconi pour voir les canyons. Tant pis je ne les verrai pas, moi c'était plutôt bonne bouffe, TV et faire le ...
Arrivée du train
Le train au Congo ressemble plus au train en Europe qu'au train au tiers monde. Tant mieux. Et les gares sont bien organisés. ...
Indende - Always find a way!
... a beer with the new friends! Norbit and his team... Thank you. Adrian didn't do to bad a job himself (man likes to tighten bolts!) Erm remind me who was bored of Gabon!!! Hmm suppose I have to thank Combrink for his help... Again! Never hear the end of ...
Crossing the equator
... western lowland gorillas... Lets hope! Had a great breakfast in the next village (oh dear...clearly not a lot has happened!) Gabon roads are quite simply incredible, im sure designed by a racing driver! Perfect tar and banking sweeping bends through the ...
Harsh reality
Decided to crack on with the journey and save the wildlife tour for southern Africa, unfortunately with all the best intention and vision Gabon just isn't set up for tourism yet. Had the the most amazing ride out of Lope, the total ride was 230km of off ...
Bad Title
Legal limbo. It appears this does not present a problem in Africa. This was the second time I got stamped out of one country but failed to get an entry stamp for the next on the same day (Senegal-Mali was the other). Each time I have ...
Day 116 - Gabon, Libreville - Food Alert
... Hope you're not too bored yet cause this is a long story....... Drama at the airport. Arrived to find only information and Gabon air was open. Neither of which could book us tickets. They said check in might be able to but we had no money - ...
Hey, let's move to Gabon
... the 'expensive' capital city of Libreville and believe it or not, once we left, we were saying 'Hey, let's move to Gabon'. Our first impressions of Libreville were that it was modern and Westernised, maybe the most Westernised city we had visited in ...
Gabon
... pit. Dist cov. = 224 km 4th - Finally reached Franceville, which is spread over rolling green hills cut with laterite roads and is Gabon's third largest city (population wise) - it is situated on the Bateke Plateau. We had 4hrs to explore, but as ...
Hello Gabon
... next door when we checked in. Leaving Cameroon was no problem, perfect roads and with efficient border officials! Hmm entering Gabon however presented a few issues... For some reason our visa wasn't acceptable, apparently it has to be issued in yaounde ...