Tailor-made trip to Congo

In the Republic of Congo, all domestic flights are blacklisted — one of the reasons we only offer Odzala National Park, which transfers our clients from Brazzaville on private flights.

Yes, via a charter flight operating only on Mondays and Thursdays. Odzala’s camps set up this partnership to ensure proper access.
Arrival on the Mboko airstrip, then a 4×4 transfer to the first camp of your trip, usually Ngaga Camp, a 3-hour drive across the national park, with a safari en route.

After an early start and a light breakfast, you will set out on foot with your guide and tracker for your gorilla tracking.
Drawing on the trackers’ experience, the search begins at the spot where the gorilla group slept the previous night.
From there, the search continues by following their trail until the encounter.
This trek lasts between 2 and 5 hours, depending on how easily the gorilla group can be located, through forest of varying density and along paths of varying difficulty. The walk can be demanding (between 5 and 8 km); you may encounter mud and rain on steep, slippery terrain.
Once contact is made, the encounter lasts 1 hour.
You may approach to within 7 metres of the gorillas.
Slightly smaller than their cousins the mountain gorillas living at altitude in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC, western lowland gorillas are, above all, far more numerous. No fewer than 7 families have been identified in the region, representing over 100 gorillas. Thanks to years of observation carried out by researchers Magda Bermejo and German Illera, two families are now habituated to human presence and therefore readily observable.