- Houses constructed in timber or concrete. Most are painted in bright blue, yellow, green or pink.
- Grass around properties and well maintained.
- Flowers and plants planted around properties and next to roads
- Roads are extremely quiet – no mopeds or taxi-buses.
- Logging industry very active and working on a Sunday. Areas of rainforest cleared and there are many logging trucks shipping veteran tree trunks.
- Very attractive rural villages with well maintained houses, gardens, community buildings and grass amenity areas.
- Villages fly the Gabon flag on their community building and have clear, clean village signs.
- There are parking signs at each village where you can pull over and shop at the market stalls.
- Pineapple, timber and plantain for sale at the roadside.