We continue our journey in Congo’s Odzala-Kokoua National Park. This time, at our last lodge of the trip: Mboko. On our first afternoon at Mboko, we explored the Lekoli River by boat, which was another new method of transportation for the trip. The aluminum bottom speedboat allowed us to travel much further down the river than previously, and we had some great views of Cassin’s flycatcher followed by a breeding herd of buffalo with youngsters hanging out on the water’s edge. Cassin's...

Picking up where we left off last week…From Ngaga, we drove back west and traded our game viewer for kayaks as we embarked on a river journey downstream along the Lekoli River. The slower pace allowed us to find and view the shy de Brazza’s monkey as well as the bizarre looking black-and-white colobus and an abundance of palm nut vultures. We also had our first sightings of forest buffalo, including one individual that happened to be waiting for us right at the point where we tied up our...

We are finally back. On this week’s episode of the Safari Stories podcast, we discuss the differences between the DRC and the Republic of Congo. We visited the latter in March, exploring its capital Brazzaville on the banks of the mighty Congo River. The Congo River system is Africa’s largest by volume with a basin four times the size of France. It’s over 3,000 miles long and is, at its narrowest point in Brazzaville, just under two miles wide The mighty Congo River from above Brazzaville is...