Country Info
- Yaounde
- Capital
- CFA Franc BEAC (XAF)
- Currency
- 15,803,220
- Population
- CM
- Country Code
Cameroon Slideshow
Cameroon
Travel Blogs from Cameroon
Time with Families
All of us spent the morning recovering from our lack of sleep the night before. None of us were hungry from our early morning breakfast, so we spent the morning reading, writing, and sleeping. This afternoon one of our host's workers and his wife ...
"God's Country" and Potatoes.
... is about a 45 minute drive to our host family's compound. We were warned by our host family about the poor roads in Cameroon and all of us underestimated their condition. None of us have been thrown around a truck as much as we were. The best ...
It was not like this for Michael Palin!!!
Its my first official day in West Africa but it felt like it all started yesterday when I joined the check-in queue at Gatwick. I flew with Afriqiyah airways aka Lybian airways who allow each economy pax 2 x 24ks for the hold.[3 x for ...
NO CLOTHES + PAINT = MESS
Today was my first day on the Job here in Yaounde. It was pretty exciting waking up at 4am...doing some updating until 6am and then having our daily bread and granola with powdered milk and leaving for Rain Forest International School around ...
Trouble on the Road
... refund I’d be ready and able but I can’t. Well I’m getting a couple days off from the truck because everyone is climbing Mt Cameroon which is a nice change and Cameroon has proved to be a truly spectacular place, beautiful and ...
I am not Blanche!!!
... ; I am not Blanche!!! Upon my arrival in Cameroon, I was overconfident in my decision and full of the same false assumptions and stereotypes I often criticize. Since I had been to ...
18 décembre : Réception chez Marie-Noël
Au saut du lit après notre veillée passée en boîte – c'est à dire vers 13h00, ce qui n’est pas mal somme toute étant donné l’heure tardive à laquelle nous nous sommes couchés ! - nous devions déjà penser à nous préparer ...
Road Trip
... largest city in the Northwest Region and was a drastic contrast to the peaceful countryside we had experienced so far in Cameroon. People lined the streets attempting to sell you almost anything they could carry on their head or ...
Parents and Wedding
... a couple hours of relaxation we took a cab to the patiserie for pan chocolat then to the airport. The french part of cameroon has amazing breads and sweets, French-style rather than British-style. With bread a bottled water in hand we went to ...
Le Cameroun. Quelle paye!
... path clearers all cooked together and chatted cheerily about Premiership football in Pigin and English. Surprisingly, this corner of Cameroon is Anglophone in a bilingual but largely Francophone country. Sarah spent the day wandering up to the fantastic ...
letter of introduction
Left the beach and headed to the capital - Yaounde. Mission: to get a letter of introduction from my embassy to the Angolan authorities to help ( hopefully) get a visa for Angola. Our driver says we must do this -Time will tell if hes ...
Un jour sur terre...
Qui l'aurait imaginé. Après 4 annnées d'absence, me voici de retour au Cameroun. Curieusement, je n'ai pas sentis ce choc dont certains parlent, au contraire c'était comme si je n'avais jamais quitté ce pays. Comme si je revenais juste à l'endroit ...
All points North
... hotel. We found one at the Leconi Palace in the heart of Franceville. It had baths and everything so Janet spent Cameroon (2)her birthday in pampered luxury. ( Doing the laundry in the bath!!!) We also met some people going South so we could unload ...
Keepin it short
Hello everyone, Greetings from Kumbo. Since we last wrote, many things have happened. Perhaps the highlights are going to the farm with Biggie (the head of the Kwikishwang compound) and met with many of our friends from Kumbo. We will keep the words ...
Poulet, c'est la vie
... to head to Kribi for a night before taking off for Dschang to be there for both May 20th, the 50th anniversary of Cameroon's reunification, and my host brother's 10th birthday on the 23rd. After cramming the usual five people onto the bus seats meant for ...
On top of Cameroon
... er som väntat ivrigt på att få veta)! Vi har också genomfört en mycket lyckad bestigning av västafrikas högsta berg Mt Cameroon (4090 m högt).Vi kom ner igår, efter 4 dygn uppe i bergen (det var skönt och välbehövt med en varmdusch). Idag ...
Cameroon after the riots
I went to Cameroon for a trip to Douala and Edea and was very hesitative as around 3rd and 4th March 2008 heavy riots and looting was reported from Douala and Yaounde. Nobody was working in the week after and our German Consulate recommended to better ...
mount cameroon
hüt isch also de tag x chu. i mache mi uf, uf de mount cameroon 4090m ü m. de vulkan het verschideni näme unter anderem, fako, albertspitze oder kamerunberg. da isch de höchschti berg vu weschtafrika. de letschti usbruch isch im johr 2000 g'si, i ...
Coffee and Wedding
... in Africa! The soil structure deserves a brief moment in the spotlight. There are several types of soil in this part of Cameroon, each presenting itself at different elevations. Starting at the lowest elevation, we have a layer of clay. When dry, this ...
Last day of seminars
... on the topic of faithfulness. It picked up where my sermon of the day before left off. I explained that church members in Cameroon have a special challenge when it comes to being faithful in various aspects of their lives. Sadly, they live in one of the ...
Two weeks in Cameroon
Flight Paris-Yaoundé, via Douala. 2 days in Yaoundé. Train Yaoundé-Ngaoundere, bush taxi from Ngaoundere to Ngaoubela Norwegian Lutheran Hospital (about 7 kms from Tibati). Bush taxi from Tibati to Banyo and Bankim. Bush taxi from Bankim to Foumban, ...
19 décembre : Réception chez Angélique et M. Vogo
Pour continuer la série d'invitations, nous sommes allés en soirée chez Angélique, la grande cousine de Sabine, et son mari, M. Vogo, qui fut pendant de longues années un diplomate en poste à Douala et un ami de longue date de papi Raphaël, le ...
Welcome to Camer-booty
... differences between Cameroonians and Americans with regard to relationships...a crucial conversation to have, particularly if you're a female in Cameroon, because there is no avoiding the inevitable, "Can I see you again? What is your number?" from ...
Leaving Douala
Today was a high day and my last day with the church members here. Mr. Mabout was early at the hotel (!), but the heavy post-Easter traffic and several blocked streets meant we only just arrived on time for the 10:00 service. There was plenty of time to ...
All men are NOT created equal
Despite my many endeavors throughout this experience, and my very interesting research, the one question I keep being asked is if I have yet met an African prince. So...after having pondered over the question for some time, I can ...