Cameroon

Arrival If you have never been to a third world country you would be pretty shocked the first time you set foot in a city like Douala.I had been out of the place for about 20 years and as our plane was hovering over the air about to land, the view from a...  Read review

History Cameroon got its independence in 1960 and it is a country located in Central Africa.With a population of about 17million people the country is bilingual(French and English)with the french language being spoken by 80 percent of the people. Pote...  Read review

The Town Buea is a town that is located at the foot of Mt. Cameroon in Central Africa.Once you get into the country through the Douala international Airport, it takes about an hour of driving to get to Buea.It is located in the Anglophone part of the cou...  Read review

Ok, it's a little off the beaten track. (And if you're interested in what a "beaten track" looks like, check out the photo of the main road into Bangem at the time of our visit.) True, it's not a tourist area. But if you should ever find yourself in the t...  Read review

Five go mad in Muakwe. Five of us (plus Sylvester, our driver) are crammed into a 4x4. We'd set off from Douala at 10 o' clock that morning (10 o' clock "African time" meaning that it was actually about half past before we were on the road). Driving th...  Read review

"Staaaaan-ley! This is another fine mess you've got me into." - Oliver Hardy. Back in the days when I worked offshore this quote pretty much summed up the unofficial offshore staff response to being told they were required to visit West Africa. Most fiel...  Read review