Congo: Gorillas at Odzala and Pygmies at Ndoki

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The Republic of Congo offers total immersion in the Congo rainforest, the Earth's second green lung. It begins in Brazzaville, the capital on the Congo River facing Kinshasa. You fly to Odzala-Kokoua National Park, a 5,200-sq-mile sanctuary with the highest density of western lowland gorillas. Local trackers lead hikes through dense forest until you find the gorillas. The bais, salt clearings, gather elephants, buffalos and hundreds of gray parrots. Then comes Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, one of the most pristine forests on the planet, where Mbendjele Pygmy guides share their millennia-old knowledge of the forest. Ten days of extreme adventure in the deepest forest in Africa.