Category: Guinea Bissau
Guinea Bissau Tour Operators
Verified Guinea-Bissau Tour Operators The genuine operators we could verify via live Google Business profiles. Ratings captured from Google. BI External operator BIJAGOS ISLANDS 📍 Bubaque, Bijagós, Guinea-Bissau Google★5.0· 5 reviews A Bubaque-based tour operator running trips through the Bijagós Archipelago, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of 88 islands. Its programmes centre on island-hopping by boat, […]
Guinea Bissau Holidays
Guinea-Bissau is a small coastal country just to the South of Senegal and Guinea to the north east. This small nation has long been visited by foreign tourist, first the Portuguese colonialists who enjoyed the river and coastal region and beaches. Its warm climate remains a major inviting factor to different travellers from all over […]
Ilhas de Orango National Park
Ilhas de Orango National Park in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago protects one of the only known populations of saltwater-adapted hippopotamus in the world, with approximately 200 hippos using the tidal mangrove creeks, brackish lagoons, and open sea around Orango and its surrounding islands, with accommodation available at the Orango Parque Hotel — the park’s only lodge […]
National Parks and Reserves in Guinea Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is one of the most nature gifted countries in West Africa. The Bijagós Archipelago is a biosphere reserve that has almost 60 of the exotic flora and fauna in Africa. Other nature reserves and parks in Guinea Bissau include João Vieira e Poilão Marine National Park, Ilhas de Orango National Park, Rio Cacheu Nature […]
João Vieira e Poilão Marine National Park
João Vieira e Poilão Marine National Park in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago contains the largest green turtle nesting site in Africa and one of the five most important in the world, with Poilão Island alone hosting up to 62,000 nests in a single season and approximately 5 percent of the entire global green turtle breeding population, […]
Lagoa de Cufada
Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park in central Guinea-Bissau covers 890 square kilometres of freshwater lagoons, seasonally flooded forest, gallery woodland, and open savanna, making it the country’s first formally protected area and the only Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in Guinea-Bissau, with access arranged through the Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas in Bissau […]
Rio Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park
Rio Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park in northern Guinea-Bissau protects 886 square kilometres of what is considered the largest compact mangrove system in West Africa, with 68 percent of its territory covered in dense Rhizophora and Avicennia mangrove forest along the Cacheu River estuary and its tidal tributaries, with visits arranged through local boat operators near […]