Campo Ma'an National Park is an area of largely untouched rainforest in Coastal Cameroon.

Understand

A gorilla from the WWF habituation program at Campo Ma'an

The park covers an area of 2,680 km² (1,030 sq mi) and borders Equatorial Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. The rainforest hosts the critically endangered western lowland gorilla as well as the endangered central chimpanzee. The park is also home to three pygmy tribes, although the construction of an oil pipeline and a ban on hunting have endangered their livelihoods.

The climate has two dry seasons, November to March and July to August, and two rainy seasons, April to June and August to October.

Get in

The park can be reached via 150 km (93 mi) of bad roads from Kribi.

Fees and permits

The official fee for the park is CFA 5000 per person plus CFA 2000 per vehicle. Guides whose price should be 10,000 CFA can quickly charge for several hundred dollars for a tour.

Sleep

It is doubtful whether any tourism infrastructure, which was seriously lacking as of 2017, will be created. At least one hotel financed by the WWF has already fallen into disrepair.