La Lope National Park

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La lope national park. The la lopé national park is located in four counties ogooué ivindo ogouée lolo ngounié and moyen ogouée in central gabon. But isn t this part of the charm of going to gabon it s still rugged and less touristic than nearly anywhere else you can go in the world. Photo by jbdodane flora the forest in the park is a combination of vast primary and secondary virgin rainforest with the existence of a man made savanna mosaic. One of the most accessible of gabon s national parks lopé offers rainforest and savannah teeming with apes elephants and birds.
Beautiful lope lope national park is beautiful but as with all of gabon the accommodations are often sub par and the wildlife is hit or miss. It is one of the largest national parks of gabon. Bordered by the majestic ogooué to the north the offoué to the east the du chaillu mountains in the south and the mingoué river to the west more than 1 500 plant species have been recorded here of which 40 represent new species for gabon. A group of forest elephants in the savannah of lopé national park.
Lopé national park is a vast expanse totalling 485 000ha. The area is a huge gallery of forests and rivers. The first protected area in gabon which was established in 1946 this unesco world heritage listed park nurtures one of africa s most important prehistoric sites and ecologically significant reserves for primates. Lope national park gabon lopé national park.
Lopé national park s vast wilderness covers 5 360km2 of virgin forest and intersects pockets of misty savannahs in its northern boundary. Lopé is the best place in africa to see mandrills up to 1350 gather at a time. Track down gorillas chimpanzees and mandrills in the vast parc national de la lopé. Although the terrain is mostly rain forest in the north the park contains the last remnants of grass savannas created in central africa during the last ice age 15 000 years ago.
When the country s president declared the creation of 13 national parks in 2002 lope national park was included. Lopé national park is a national park in central gabon. Smack bang on the equator and framed by the beautiful ogooué river lopé national park a unesco world heritage site doesn t disappoint.