Fraicheur Hotel Yaounde

... the outskirts of Garoua.

He swam out to the family group and where they were the water was only between ankle and knee depth. He then proceeded to feed the hippo while 2 small canoes took us out to where he was. It`s amazing to stand within 3m of a wild hippo in it`s domain with its family and with no means of a quick escape. We had the chance to feed and touch the hippo but there wasn`t enough time for all to do so as it was getting late. The cost of this ...

... ord**):
1 Masked dance, made all the more special because the whole village came to watch, join in and enjoy. It was the best birthday.
2 My birthday, waking up on a roof top in a small Dogon village, looking up and see a gath**ing of small kids pe**ing at us, hearing a woman pounding millet and what sounded like a hundred roost**s. Walking to the village to watch the masked dance and then walking to anoth** village to have dinn**, wh**e ...

... last to get bitten and when I do I feel it and cov** up and put on repellent. Well, too drunk on this occasion.

I thought I would recall my exp**iences with Malaria ov** the last week.

The first day that I had Malaria I didn't know about it, like most people. It started with a sore back which moved to the stomach and then kidney area, then all ov** the mid part of my body. This was during the day. When night came I couldn't sleep and by 2am I had ...

... to the Cam**oonian reception. It seemed almost immediate that locals stopped enthusiastically responding to our waves, with only glum stares in return.





Houses and dress also changed. From mainly concrete and tin houses in *****ia back to traditional mud huts in Cam**oon. The round huts, with pointy grass roofs, seemed to be organised in clust**s and sometimes compounds, which w**e diff**ent in size and numb** from previous countries...each new country ...

La tâche de trav**s** le Nigéria n'a pas été trop compliquée du fait que mon Ambassade s'est occupée de tout jusqu'au point de me mettre dans une voiture qui m'amen**ait à Calabar. Malheureusement Calabar n'était pas la bonne frontière et j'étais obligé de pass** la nuit dans la gare et de revenir sur mes pas le lendemain de plus de 200 km, jusqu'à Akom. J'étais avec 4 Cam**ounais qui n'ont pas pû prendre leur bâteau à destination de Douala la veille. Les nigériens ...

Up very early... like 5.30 early except we slept in so got up at 6. Warm grey day with the threat of showers in the distance. Left camp by 7, me jumping up on the closed in beach so as to keep as far away as possible from any visiting inspects swept in by the branches scrapping by. Spent the 5 plus hr drive back to Yaounde laying up on the beach dozing or watching the world go by through the little front window ...

6:15 and it feels like 4am. Took us ages to get to sleep last night - too hot and the tent has morphed into a weird shape so feet hit the end. Did a bakery run, watched the end of Wicker Park as the battery had died 2 minutes before the end (very annoying) then climbed aboard Nala for an 8am departure. Weird not having Josh and Rachel as they used sit near opposite us so usually I'd be watching them twist around each other into bizarre sleeping ...

Je viens dans la capitale pour la chasse aux visas. Je prevois d en faire 7. Mais tous d un coup. D abord celui pour le tchad et la Rep. Centrafricaine., puis apres Guinee Equatoriale, Gabon ceux des congos et sao tome et principe. Ici, on trouve d excellente boulangerie et on trouve meme des tartelette a la fraise et de la glace fait maison. Donc le programme repos, remplissage de formulaire, ecriture de carte postale. A ...

... Equatorial Guinea where visitors have to apply in their home country, the embassy in Yaounde only issues visas to citizens and residents of Cameroon), it was time to head to the coastal town of Kribi, famous for its excellent beaches,but also for its delicious Kribi shrimps. A drunken taxi driver brings me to the beach south of Kribi where a lady from my home country Switzerland has been investing into a beach resort, located on a ...

... sips of tea, the walls fell around us. The kitchen fell down. The bathroom fell down. The walls of these constructions are generally made out of a combination of mud, cow manure and dirt, but normally they hold up, even in the heaviest rains. The rains of this year are falling harder than they have for years. I left my village a week or so ago and since then, there has been another damaging rainfall. "On ne parle meme pas des champs," was the message I got from the ...