
Габон считается одной из самых развитых и богатых стран Африки. Здешние земли чрезвычайно насыщены природными ресурсами. Тут находятся обильные месторождения золота и марганца, урановой и железной руды, природного газа, а также нефти, соли и минералов. Благодаря плодородным свойствам почвы, в Габоне созданы великолепные условия для ведения сельского хозяйства. Разнообразие животного мира и красочное соцветие различных видов экзотических растений делают эти места сказочно красивыми и привлекательными.





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Gabon is located in the central part of the African continent and borders on such countries as Cameroon, Congo and Equatorial Guinea. From the West, its coast wash waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The coastline along the coast lasts throughout 885 kilometers. Divided into two parts by the cape Lopez, on the one hand it abounds with shallow lagoons and flat coast, and other half is cut up by funneled mouths of the rivers and picturesque bays. The central part of the country is occupied by the low mountains and hills framed with dense evergreen forests, low plains and the twisting rivers.
Gabon is considered one of the most developed and rich countries of Africa. Local lands are extremely sated with natural resources. There are plentiful gold deposits and manganese, uranium and iron ore, natural gas, and also oil, salt and minerals. Thanks to fertile properties of the soil, in Gabon magnificent conditions for farming are created. A variety of fauna and a colourful inflorescence of different types of exotic plants do these places fantastically beautiful and attractive.
The capital of the republic Gabon is Libreville. At the moment this city is considered the biggest port on the African Atlantic coast. Here a significant amount of industrial and manufacturing enterprises is located. The most part of export in this region is made by cocoa, rubber, palm-oil and rare grades of wood. Libreville has reputation of the main supplier of financial resources in the state budget. The main feature of the city is that circumstance that the main spoken language is here French that is quite unusual to the Central Africa. In many respects it is connected with a role of the international trade and production center of the republic which the capital carries out already many tens years. Besides in those days, when Gabon was a colony of France, in Libreville there was an official representation of this European country which watched a situation in the colonial territory. Such picturesque constructions as Saint-Michel's church, Saint Maria's Cathedral and Natsionalny the museum of Culture and Traditions of Gabon are distinguished from city sights here.
Indicator of average life expectancy in the country one of the lowest on the continent. Despite rather high economic level of the state in general, in Gabon the percent of child mortality is a little overestimated, and people on average live only 52 years. Many die of diseases, traditional for Africa, owing to badly developed medical industry that is a serious problem of the dark continent. Also death cases after stings of snakes and other poisonous reptiles and insects aren't rare. In recent years, in connection with growth of manufacturing enterprises in the territory of the country, emission in air of harmful substances became frequent that immediately affects environment ecology. The main religion in Gabon is considered Catholicism though in many regions the paganism still prospers.
The main resort of the republic, along with capital Libreville the Port-Zhantil located in the most western point of the Atlantic coast is. In spite of the fact that the tourist infrastructure started developing actively quite recently here, for a short period there were comfortable hotels, parking lots of cars, modern shopping and entertainment centers here. The amazing sandy beaches washed by waters of Atlantic are considered as pride of Port-Zhantil. They are traditionally equipped with plank beds and umbrellas, and also here always to services of tourists points of hire of a water transport. Unlike the majority of resorts of the Western and Central Africa, quality of service here quite quite good though the traditional African disorganization is traced by times and in the resorts of Gabon. Entertaining life of Port-Zhantil differs in a variety and violence of paints. To services of vacationers the night clubs, a casino and versatile restaurants ready to offer foreign guests of a dish for every taste are offered at any time.
But at all magnificence of sandy beaches of the western coast, first of all Gabon is beautiful the highly topical excursion program. One of the brightest excursions which not territories of the country exist, travel to the district of the city of Makokou which is directly among the Gabon jungle is. From here it is possible to go to the Loa-Loa area known for wild tribes of pygmies, and abundance of the black African gorillas living in this region. Numerous villages of locals in various parts of Gabon can be removed only from permission of elders of local tribes which are quite friendly and hospitable to guests.
In the town of Loup the order of a safari round on untouched savannas and wild territories will become excellent entertainment. During this travel tourists have a rare opportunity to photograph wild predators of the African continent in habitat, natural to them. However, on the trip course the accompanying guides don't recommend to leave the car, owing to unpredictability of behavior of "locals". However, such round anyway will turn out bright, saturated, and full of impressions. Climate in Gabon hot and damp. Equatorial in the northern region and subequatorial in the southwest. If in the north average annual air temperature makes +26 degrees, in the south it reaches to +30. During the period from June to September here almost there are no rains, except for mountain areas. In the rest of the time of year on the coast it is windy and hot, and in the central part of the country closeness which is inevitable owing to high humidity, because of abundance of dense tropical vegetation is added. Travel to Gabon is a fascinating adventure for any traveler respecting himself and fine opportunity to estimate true beauty of the nature in its primitive shape.