Sette Cama Eco Camp lies in a coastal forest clearing at the southern reaches of Loango National Park, Gabon.
A short track from camp leads to Sette Cama’s remote, uninhabited coastline, where forest elephants and sitatunga roam the beach.
Half an hour away by boat, the Ndogo Lagoon meets wild Atlantic Coast at one of the last remaining undisturbed estuary mouths in Africa. Rainforest trails offer the chance to track unhabituated great apes on foot under the dense forest canopy, together with other primates, mammals, and birdlife.

Coastal trails contrast completely with the forest, where isolated beaches become the playground of surfing hippos, forest buffaloes, and red river hogs, with seasonal visits from sea turtles and humpback whales. Entering this totally wild environment is a lesson in learning to speak rainforest, from interpreting the calls of wild chimpanzees, to discovering the cultural and medicinal uses of flora for humans and wildlife alike.

Sette Cama is a living window into tropical Africa’s wild past. Where rainforest, lagoon and coastline are home to more forest elephants, great apes, hippos, and sea turtles than humans. Explorations are active and immersive, for a true sense of the disappearing wilderness that once covered most of Tropical Africa’s coastline.

Machaba Wild isn’t built around the rhythm of a typical day in the wilderness. We believe there should be no such thing. Out here, the pace is set by nature herself - shaping what you'll do and when. Explorations adapt to environmental shifts and how your guide sees this changing the routine of wildlife, along with the clues left behind by them to follow. Expect contrast over certainty: different landscapes to discover, varied ways of exploring them, and the chance encounters that bring the wild to life. (machabawild)

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