We will head to the Maya Maya Airport at 10:00am to catch our flight into the forest. 1h45 minute flight from Brazzaville to Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

Arrival at Mboko airstrip located inside Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

Once settled in, we will have a short yoga and meditation session. This session will be focused on grounding ourselves into our new rainforest environment.

Wake up is at 5am, a light breakfast is served at 5:30am and the track starts at 6am SHARP. Unless it is raining, then we will wait for the rain to stop. 

Finding the gorillas can take anything from 10min to 3 hours depending on where their movements take them. They have large home ranges and can be affected by the movements of other gorilla families. 

The terrain is relatively flat with a small section of deep valley. 

After finding and viewing the gorillas, we take a leisurely walk back to camp where breakfast will be ready and waiting. 

Afternoons are used to explore & find different creatures in the dry forest. 

This is the time of day where the trackers will head back out(alone) to find the gorillas again to mark a GPS point as to where they bed down for the night.

This is the area that we head straight back to in the morning to start tracking from there. 

On our last afternoon we head out to visit the small village of Ombo- with a population of about 40 people. Here they will show us about the local culture and how people have been surviving in the forest for centuries. 

After our visit, we head to the edge of the forest for a sundowners and wait for it to get dark. 

A night drive back to camp is our opportunity to look for any of the 5 galago(bushbaby) species as well as many other rare noctural creatures such as potto's, tree civets and anomalures (nocturnal flying squirrel) - to name but a few. 

A leisurely wakeup & breakfast for a 10:30/11:00 am departure from camp. We will stop in the slightly larger village of Mbomo-roughly 2000 people-, which is about a 45min drive along the way to Mboko camp. We will have a look at the local bush meat & product market and take a small drive around.

All fresh meat and produce are harvested, gathered and hunted from the surrounding forest areas. Locals are allowed to do so within the first 10km of the National Park, with no limits in the areas that lie outside of the Concessions and National Parks.

After the village visit, we head to Mboko Camp for lunch & to freshen up/prepare for a not-to-be-missed kayaking & walking experience to our next destination - Lango Forest Camp.

Guests have the option to take the shortcut with the luggage transfer should they not feel comfortable on the water.

After a week in the forest, Mboko Camp is the perfect way to end your stay as it faces onto an open Savanna. Stars and intense thunderstorms can be enjoyed and photographed from the main deck. The camp sits 60km north of the equator making parts of the Northern & Southern Hemispheres' constellations visible. Where possible we plan our trips to coincide with the full moon so we can host a small ceremony under the stars in the moonlight.

The charter flight back to Brazzaville, for our final evening, will usually leave between 9:00 & 10:00, depending on the weather. The last day in Brazzaville is used to explore the local markets and cuisine along the mighty Congo River. Our final evening together will be at the Radisson Blu hotel, where we will wrap up our program and enjoy a farewell dinner overlooking the river.