Equatorial Guinea Safaris, Tours & Holidays

Equatorial Guinea is a Central African country comprising the Rio Muni mainland and 5 volcanic offshore islands. Capital Malabo, on Bioko Island, has Spanish colonial architecture and is a hub for the country’s prosperous oil industry. Its Arena Blanca beach draws dry-season butterflies. The tropical forest of the mainland’s Monte Alen National Park is home to gorillas, chimpanzees, and elephants.

Equatorial Guinea is an oil-rich, developing country on the western coast of central Africa. Its capital and main port, Malabo, is located on the island of Bioko, off the coast of Cameroon. A secondary port, Luba, is also on Bioko. The mainland territory of Equatorial Guinea is bordered by Cameroon and Gabon. The principal city on the mainland is Bata. Official languages are Spanish, which is widely spoken, and French, which is widely understood and sometimes used in business dealings.  Portuguese was recently made the country’s third official language but is not widely used or spoken.

Equatorial Guinea is a beautiful country with many interesting sites and beaches, but there is little tourism information to assist in planning a vacation. Facilities for tourism are limited but growing.

Despite the small size of the country, and due to its landscape diversity, Equatorial Guinea is one of the areas with the greatest biodiversity in Africa, since we can find everything from classical beaches with black volcanic sand to incredibly lush forests or Alpine lands at 3,000 meters of altitude. Aware of this wealth, the Government has reserved nearly 20% of the land of the country for the preservation of natural life.

More than a hundred different mammals make up this fauna: small antelopes, pangolins, felines… The country is especially rich in diversity of primates: gorillas, chimpanzees, mandrills, colobus… But in Guinea, you can also find some samples of large mammals such as elephants of the jungle, hippopotamus, bush pigs, and the manatee.

Also numerous are the species of reptiles and amphibians, and four species of sea turtles that frequent the coast stand out.

On the coral reefs of Corisco, we find marine fauna that is not at all frequent in Central Africa. It is also important to mention the coast of Moraka, near Ureco, on Bioko, as one of the most privileged places in the area in order to observe the egg-laying of the sea turtles.

The very rich inventory of Equatorial Guinean birds with more than three hundred known species, as well as aquatic fauna, with more than 167 species of counted fish, have been started but are still incomplete.