“If I had to describe a week here, it would blow you away,” says Rod Cassidy, owner of Sangha Lodge. The avid birder and conservationist, together with his wife Tamar, built the lodge in 2009 and have worked tirelessly ever since to provide what he calls an “immersive rainforest experience”. Cassidy cites Dzanga Bai as the camp’s unique selling point, but while he calls this incredible elephant gathering, along with gorilla tracking and on-foot game encounters as “stock in-the-park experiences”, there is so much more to the area than this. “The rainforest is the richest biodiversity in the world,” he says, “and just to sell it on elephants and gorillas is daft”.
Here are a few of his park highlights…