Guinea Bissau Safari, Tours & Holidays

Guinea-Bissau is a tropical country on West Africa’s Atlantic coast that’s known for national parks and wildlife. The forested, sparsely populated Bijagós archipelago is a protected biosphere reserve. Its main island, Bubaque, forms part of the Orange Islands National Park, a habitat for saltwater hippos. On the mainland, the capital, Bissau, is a port with Portuguese colonial buildings in its old city centre.

Like a microcosm of Africa, this tiny nation contains multitudes – of landscapes, peoples, cultures, and plant and animal life. All of it is within reach of the capital, Bissau. Faded colonial-era houses sag, from tropical decay and the weight of history. Decades of Portuguese colonization were followed by a long painful liberation struggle and then cycles of civil war and political chaos.

The jewel in the country’s crown is the labyrinth of tropical islands that make up the Arquipélago dos Bijagós. Long white-sand beaches are lapped by waters brimming with fish. Hippos, monkeys, chimps, and buffaloes thrive in protected reserves and hundreds of bird species call its vast mangroves and wetlands home.