Kinshasa – Lomako Park National (Private Party) 18-Days 2020

Maximum 4 persons in 1 canoe

• 2 pax : 7.574,- USD per person
• 3 pax : 6.269.- USD per person
• 4 pax : 5.616,- USD per person

Day 1: Hotel Invest 3* on B&B

Arrival in Kinshasa, airport assistance, transfer hotel and briefing

Day 2: Hotel, full board After breakfast, transfer to the airport for our flight to Mbandaka. We travel with CAA or Air Congo and depending on the number of passengers with Airbus A320, Fokker 50 or Short 360

Hotel in Mbandaka

Day 3,4,5,6,7: Tents, full board

In total, we have to travel between 40 and 50 hours on the water. We leave early in the morning, after breakfast, have a small break at noon for lunch and we’ll stop around +/- 4 pm for our camp and to prepare our diner. We stay overnight in small villages, with the agreement of the chief and buy our food on the local markets.

The Maringa River is between 100 and 200 meter wide and has a lot of sandbanks. The Lomako River is between 5 and 15 meter wide, forest everywhere on both sides a fast water flow and a lot of obstacles. Here we have to be careful. Normally, at the end of the 7th day, we arrive at destination.

Day 8,9,10,11: Tents, full board

Now we enter into the forest. To find the Bonobos, we’ll have to leave the camp at night, to arrive early in the morning where they passed the night, high in the trees and we’ll stay till they awake.

Except the Bonobos, we also can find:

Dryas Monkey (Cercopithecus Dryas)  Tholan’s Red Colobus (Piliocolobus Tholloni) Golden-Bellied Mangabey (Cercocebus Chrysogaster) Black Mangabey (Lophocebus Aterrimus)

Allen’s Swamp Monkey (Allenopithecus Nigroviridis)
Angolan Colobus (Colobus Angolensis)
Elephant (Loxodonta Africana)
Buffalo (Syncerus Caffer)
Bongo (Tragelaphus Euryceros)
African Golden Cat (Felis Aurata)
Leopard (Panthera Pardus)
For birding, the region has more than 400 different species with a high density of the “Congo peafowl” (Afropavo Congensis)