A
relatively unknown, under-populated country where tourism has not yet stirred
the conscience?
Picture if you will …
Dirt
routes meandering through miles of pristine rainforest pocketed by rural clearances,
morning mist shrouding the upper canopy, children bathing in deep pools of amber,
nature's treasures being sold by the road side, and village life lulled into complacency
by the heat of the midday sun.
At night the mystique of Gabon unfolding:
invisible swirls of cool scented air released by the forest in one deep sweet
breath so pure it seizes your lungs with its intensity, the unmarred brilliance
of the night sky, the sound of drum beats reverberating across a river, the lament
of the hyrax, that stilled air of expectancy for nature to reveal itself - a panther
slinking silently back into the shadows, a curtain of foliage momentarily disturbed
to embrace a small herd of elephants, and the impenetrable darkness that cloaks
the forest held at bay by village camp fires that cast dancing shadows on mud
houses the colour of honey.
It is, quite simply, a magnificent place.
Africa
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