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- Yaounde
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- 15,803,220
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- CM
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Cameroon Slideshow
Cameroon
Travel Blogs from Cameroon
The return flight to Cameroon!
With an old Dash airplane, I get back to Cameroon, its Air Service, a Gabon based airline with a good regional network.That the airline is blacklisted in the EU countries for security reasons is less important to them, they have no plans to fly there, ...
Limbe up and Limbe down.
... drive to north of Douala. Again we are camping in the grounds of a hotel on another beach but this resort is under Mount Cameroon, a volcano that last erupted in 1999 and then 2000, which we went to see this morning. Consequently the sand is deepest black ...
Malaysia
KATIE: We travelled from Singapore to Melaka, Malaysia on 15th May. We stayed near the Chinatown area in Eastern Heritige Hotel which was ok. Melaka was pretty quiet we ventured out and found some good, cheap food (noodles and curry for 3RM or 40p). The ...
There is no sugar coating the events of yesterday.
Yesterday me and Anita took Stephan to the hospital in Mbingo as he had taken a turn for thr worst. We were seen fairly quickly, probably because we are white and were told Stephan needed to be admitted. I paid the 30,000 CFA in advance to admit him and ...
fuessballveruggti kameruner
hüt obet isch de tschämpienslig final bayern münche gege inter mailand. klar in kamerun sind alli fän vum SAMUEL ETO'O und drom isch klar das blau/schwarz vu inter dia dominierend farb isch kombiniert mit em nummere 9. mir hend sich da o nid entgu lu ...
Kribi-queen city of the south!
... An excursion in the opposite direction goes to the 'Londji' beach, said to be the best beach in all of Cameroon.Basically it is a fishermen's village where some Nigerian refugees have settled down during the political turmoil in their home country, ...
International Communication and...Luggage!!!
... some candy and stickers tomorrow:-) We also have gifts to give those who have helped us while we've been in Cameroon. Today in class, the students wrote postcards to give Barr Middle School students. After the students wrote their sentences, ...
A busy day of rest in Douala
Today was a very busy Sabbath. Mr. Mabout was nearly an hour late in picking me up; he apologized for oversleeping which he said he hardly ever does. Few people have alarm clocks here so they operate on habit. I think we're all pretty tired after the ...
Yo
... know... I just remembered that no one I know has a link to this site. Anyway, this is my first post since arriving in Cameroon. Its been getting a decent amount of hits so I figured it would be unfair to not update it. I recall the days of checking ...
worshipping the cipro god
Greetings from Kumbo! Time is just flying by here in Kumbo. On Friday we visited a local dairy in the village of Tadu. This facility was built as a gift from the Land O' Lakes company. They produce mainly sweetened yogurt (pineapple, strawberry, vanilla, ...
Weekend Walking and the Invasion of the Bugs!
... ! Bucket washes all round. Yet we are still calling it a 'shower.' You have to get a bit loose with the definitions in Cameroon! WE HAVE COCKROACHES! Lovely. One surprised me in the kitchen last night, a bloody huge one. Me and Anita tried to catch it ...
Putzi Flies and more fun!
... followed by an hour of march pasts. The speeches were really good to hear, because they discussed worker's rights in Cameroon. Surprisingly, the Constitution has some wonderful worker safety protection laws in place, like 14 days of paid leave, maternatiy ...
Feb 12, 2007
Cops and robbers and chicken & chips.
... The following day we headed down to Douala to meet Louise's parents before going to Kribi for new year. It's Cameroon's biggest tourist hotspot and full of French expats from Yaoundé.... which probably explains the presence of thieves on the ...
2006 Cameroon Trip
... in a nice hotel facing the beach. On the other side of the hotel (and actually right out my window) was Mt. Cameroon, a still active volcano. I spend some nice relaxing time on the beach and in the rainforest. We were able to attend a ...
Civil Unrest in the Highlands
... , but also that their motivations for being educated should be so they can go abroad, not so they can have a positive impact in Cameroon. Anyway, so after a picnic lunch we made a sharp exit from the gardens and got en route to our next destination, Bali, ...
täglichs träning
jo wa macht me so de ganzi tag. üsflüg chummer o nid immer mache. z'viil sunne git nu sunnebrand. also schwimm i halt e rundi. 34 längene sötti gad en kilometer gi. de kreislauf a kurble isch jo nid schlecht, denn wenn i sötti uf de lavahuffe ...
Je n'ai pas un téléphone!
... francophone parts shared the experience of colonialism under the Germans, and have since always considered themselves to be first Cameroon, then Bamileke, Bamoun, Fulani, anglophone, francophone, or whatever. We leave for Dschang this Saturday, a more ...
Nicked again!
... airport in DOuala after dropping off some passengers there, taxi driver took a wrong turn and we ran straight into a police checkpoint. Now Cameroon is supposed to be bi-lingual but none of the 5 police spoke any English at all except to yell "Papers!!!" ...
üsseri underkunft
gott gab den europäern die uhr, den afrikaner die zeit de spruch pass jo scho nid schlecht. wenn i dia mensche do so chli beobachte hend dia lüt alli ziit vu de welt. so isches o bi üs im hotel, es got immer e chli öppis aber nüt würgli schnell und ...
The hope underlying destitution
... what can I say, I have been busy. I started doing preliminary field research on education and socio-economic status in Cameroon for a project with my friend Shireen. After interviewing people, making a ton of mistakes, and surveying people we learned ...
3 weeks in!
... exchanges where they teach us an African dish and we teach them an American one. We are really enjoying our time here in Cameroon, but it is very difficult to always stand out. We can't be nobodies. Everywhere we go, we are noticed and greeted. ...
Tussenstop
Goed vertrokken in Brussel, precies op tijd. Na een vlucht van 6u30 even een tussenstop in Cameroen waar we een uurtje in het vliegtuig blijven. Mooi moment om de benen te strekken en trachten een fotootje te maken. ...
City of the Opposition!
Bamenda is known as the de facto capital of the opposition to long running President Paul Biya and English speaking Cameroon. With many restaurants, shops, and cultures Bamenda is quite a site to see. After driving five hours through the Cameroonian ...
Day 98 Mt Cameroon Hike Day 1
So 6.30 arrives and I'm nervous of what the day will bring and how far behind I am going to lag and if I’ve forgotten anything. Benji doesn’t arrive until 7.10 which makes it worse as you are just hanging around waiting. Drove to Buea which ...