Capitol Residence Buea

Since the truck is in Yaounde waiting for visas John H, Phil, Tamlyn, Bryony and myself headed to Buea to climb Mount Cameroon. We organised this climb through Mount Cameroon Ecotourism Organisation (Mt CEO) and found the process of booking relatively easy, the company has been around for 10 years. We were going to do the 3-day climb going up to the summit via the Race Track and coming down via the Mann Spring Track. We would have 1 porter each (recommended to us) and ...

Je me remets a faire du sport. Mais de facon un peu violente puisque 2 semaines apres avoir fait un paludisme, je fais un 4095m en 2 jours. Pas de chance j ai eu de la pluie pendant l asencion et beaucoup de brouillard. Le premier jour je voyais mon guide mais pas beaucoup plus loin. Le 2eme par contre j ai eu une belle vue. Ascension reussie. Et apres forcement j ai mal aux jambes.

... and starting to resemble boils. After much prodding, poking and researching the discovery was made that they were in fact maggots! Mm Mm Mmmmm I'll keep Harold thanks. They're currently trying to bring it to the surface by suffocating it with vasoline. Will keep you posted. Besides from that we're all fit, healthy and malaria free. Fingers crossed it stays that way. We're down two more people with Josh and Rachel leaving on ...

... joy. Back on the main road we looked off into the distant hills. Very picturesque with whisps of cloud hovering above the canopy. 45 minutes in we stopped as the oil pressure was playing up. So whilst Mum and Jay searched the truck for a water temperature gauge (?) I thought of Kristy and Suzy somewhere up at head wondering where the hell we were. No doubt stressing that they had gone the wrong way or somehow missed us. Spoke about Mt Cameroon. I ...

... size and leaving it alone. Before we left Rach and I made the boys spare its life by pulling it out of the web with a stick. Left camp at 9.30 and commenced another long long day of driving on ****** dirt roads. Occasionally we'd get onto tarmac but that only lasted a km or two before returning to dirt, lulling us into a false sense of security. At least it wasn't as bad as the previous day and we managed to cover some 160km (I think). Terrain was ...

... guard rails and even hand rails were gone, the bridge dated from the German colonial period prior to 1918. Mr. Mabout said the new bridge was complete about a year ago by the Canadians. The old one had been completely destroyed when a fuel tanker hit a barrier at the bridge and exploded, killing quite a number of people and dropping the bridge in the river. Once we crossed the new bridge we were in English-speaking Cameroon; the section that had belonged to Germany ...

... white meat fish called Bar that the seaside restaurants all grill and s**ve whole are absolutely delicious, especially when washed down with a few cold Castel be**s. Of course, most group memb**s w**e still worried that "it's not safe to be out in town at night" and returned to the beach camp at dusk, leaving only Richard and me to eat fish and drinks be**s in the seaside cafes. It was in Limbe that I watched as love break out among sev**al memb**s of the ...

Dream Rating: &nbsp ; ; C Background It was the third night camping near Limbe. I had spent a lazy day on the beach and ate dinner at the hotel restaurant with some others in the group. The drizzle that started during dinner turned to a driving rain as I was in my tent. I had to get out to put the fly on the tent which made conditions inside almost unbearably hot and steamy. The Dream This ...

Dream Rating: &nbsp ; ; ; B+ Background This dream took place the first night we were in Limbe, Cameroon. We were at a nice beachside resort hotel where we camped in a grassy field that was also used as a parking lot. We stopped in town for dinner after several days driving through the jungle and arrived at camp/hotel quite late in the evening. I ate dinner at a seaside restaurant in Limbe with Richard. I sat alone on a bench by ...

This morning I was back at the hall by 10:30, (my ride was an hour late - not unusual here), and we had our Sabbath service. One of the local men, Mr. Andang gave a good sermonette message, and then I gave the sermon on the topic of peace, interior and with our entourage. After services, I met with the group from Yaoundé and showed them a ...