Culture
Both our camps have been designed as eco-havens within this remote rainforest. Its subtle conceptual design – inspired by the local forest dwelling cultures including B’Aka Pygmy groups – incorporates both form and function ensuring the camp is a sanctuary within the forest where our guests are able to reflect and relax after gorilla tracking excursions.
Within the room, traditional forest dweller artefacts, Congolese high craft and unique utilitarian objects are celebrated and displayed on elevated plinths, simultaneously adding punctuations of adornment, cultural information and a sense of celebration and ownership for the local community.
Commerce
Tourism to the Congo is at a fledgling stage with an aura of exploration and discovery enhancing every journey into its interior. The development of ecotourist camps in Odzala-Kokoua by the Wilderness Collection will contribute to the conservation of critical elements of central African biodiversity. We believe Congo – with its low population, pristine ecosystem, spectacular biodiversity and stable democracy – is the best country in which to achieve this.