Best Traditional Gabonese Libreville Capital French Colonial 1849 Loango National Park 2002 1,550 km² Surfing Hippos Forest Elephants Ivindo National Park 2002 3,000 km² Kongou Falls 60 m Mikongo Forest Elephants Lopé National Park UNESCO 2007 5,000 km² Lekedi Park 14,000 ha 86% Forest 11% of Africa's Forests Mayumba Marine 1,300 km² Leatherback Turtles 30,000 Pongara Beach Mont Iboundji 1,575 m and Gabon Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Gabon travel | Africa destinations Best Traditional Gabonese Libreville 1849 Loango 1,550 km² Ivindo Kongou 60 m Lopé UNESCO 2007 5,000 km² Mayumba 1,300 km² 30,000 Leatherbacks 86% Forest and Gabon Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Gabonese - Gabonese Republic + ~2.4 million population + 267,667 km² + 86% forest cover among world's highest + 11% of Africa's tropical forests in this single country - preserves the most-significant Libreville, Loango, Ivindo, Lopé, and Mayumba heritage and the renowned equatorial wilderness. Major destinations: Libreville capital and French colonial 1849 founded as freedman settlement, Pointe Denis Atlantic, and Cathedral St Marie 1958 + Saint-Michel de Nkembo 1964 modernist 31 carved wooden columns and Marché du Mont Bouët , Loango National Park 2002 + 1,550 km² + "Africa's last Eden" Mike Fay's Megatransect 1999-2000 + surfing hippos beach, forest elephants, lowland gorillas, and leatherback turtles , ...