The trip starts with a one-hour boat ride across the estuary and into one of the smaller waterways. It’s an hour in a small outboard boat, a little rough and wet, but it’s all part of the adventure. The next hour is in the back of a 4x4 through the tropical rain forest and down past the equator to the Nyonie base camp on the shore of the Atlantic.
In 2009, I took a year long sabbatical and moved to the West Coast of Africa. I rented my apartment in NYC and moved to Libreville, Gabon, 20 miles north of the equator. This blog is about my travel adventures in a country I never heard of before, my experiences living on the U.S. Embassy compound, and my participation with varied people and cultures.
Monday, November 9, 2009
An Elephant Safari in Nyonie
We went on our 1st real trip into the jungle in Gabon. Nyonie is a base camp about 2 hours south of Libreville, about ½ hour south of the equator.
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