Advantages: You'll have some great stories to tell your grandkids. Disadvantages: If you get back.
..."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 field staff would rather work aboard a nice, clean, modern boat in the North Sea than an aging boat with dilapidated equipment that meant it was forever popping in and out of the steaming, malodorous, cockroach-infested, run down and beaten up ports of West Africa. It wasn't all bad though, and more by luck than judgement I had some entertaining moments in the area, especially in Douala, Cameroon, where our boat was based.
*Weather*
Cameroon is unfeasibly hot, in the same damp, energy sapping way that a sauna is hot. It is also wet, with seasons where it rains at the same time every day...
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Advantages: Good people,good natural sites,been descriped as africa in miniature Disadvantages: the roads in some of the towns,security
...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.
Potential
The country is rich in natural resources;oil(in the bakassi area and off coast of Limbe)timber(part of the Congo basin)but agriculture still plays a major part in the livehood of the people.The country exports coffee,cocoa and coffee as its major cash crops.Locally a lot of foodstuff that feeds the central african region comes from this nation.
Transportation
Getting around had improve in some ares of the country such as Douala and Yaunde.When you arrive the country you either get in through the Nsimalen Airport in the nation's capital which is in Yaounde or through the Douala...
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...previous owners, yet are clean. I decide that Jennifer is coming home with me; she has such a cheeky grin and I love the way her nose wrinkles up when she giggles. Steve feels the same way and we embark on a pointless argument about how we would manage custody arrangements back in Bristol as though it might be a reality.
At the end of our ten days in Muakwe we treat ourselves to a night at a beach hotel on the coast just outside Limbe. It's very beautiful, but we are unlucky with the weather and it rains the entire time we are there. We swim in the sea anyway. Three of us take a walk on the beach in the evening, and can't resist stripping off and wading in. It's like a warm bath, and as we move in the water, there are tiny phosphorescent specks that shine like sparkles of glitter. We visit the site of MountCameroon's most recent eruption...
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