Smack-dab on the equatorial is Réserve de la Lopé, complete with savannah, rolling hills, and rainforest where it’s possible to see buffalo, elephants, gorillas, and mandrills.

This national park was originally a reserve created in the 1940’s after the Okanda Wildlife Reserve was established.

You’ll find a research station there run by the Zoological Society of London.

You can stay at the station and be less than five metres from the rainforest at all times.