Hotel Candy Malabo

... of each place Douala, Limbe and Buea. The hut is basic and we slept on a raised platform with the porters underneath us on a straw floor.<br><br><br>Day Two - Disaster strikes for me, at some point in the early hours of the morning I wake up and proceed to throw up last nights meal...not good on the day of the summit attempt. I start to get worse after waking up so I pop an imodium tablet and pray it works. Charles informs us that the trek to the top should take ...

... we went through the four colors and then the blends. Everyone watched in rapt attention. As we discussed it afterwards, I asked if they felt the descriptions were accurate and if they recognized themselves in the strengths and weaknesses. They all said yes, enthusiastically. We talked about it from various angles and several commented how they were thinking not only of themselves but of friends or family ...

It was a rather dark morning, heavy clouds threatened rain. To add to the gloomy atmosphere, I noticed clouds of large bats flitting in the city's sky as I ate my breakfast. They're almost always here in the center of Douala, but I'm often surprised to see them. These are daytime bats, out morning and evening, looking, I suppose, for insects. More power to them! Moïse arrived with a new taxi, yesterday's driver wanted Easter off, and we drove ...

... conference supplies (pens and notepads) in advance, so we drove right out to the Church hall. The trip took about an hour, counting a stop in the tropical sun to pick up some photocopies we needed to have done for the seminars. I took in all the sights sounds and smells of Douala as we worked out way out to PK 17 (this is to say: "kilometer point 17" - that distance from the city center - about 10 miles ...

... invisible as possible. This evening it worked. I was able to muddle by all the officials without being stopped or checked and I was out on the sidewalk and free! Moïse Mabout was waiting for me. His car had broken down earlier in the day (the clutch gave out) so we were on our own. I suggested we take the shuttlebus to the Ibis: it's free and safe. It spite of my best efforts and vociferous complaints a porter pulled my suitcase out of our hands and ...

... episodes of Sunset Tan!! Fabulous. Did feel a bit strange though watching the highly materialistic world on TV whilst in a not so materialistic country. Another wonderful discovery was Arne - a gorgeous little bar run by the sweetest of girls, Erica from Jo'burg and her lovely husband Ryan from Cameroon. It served to die for food with real cheese!! Bunny Chow Delux (massive roll filled with chips, avocado and cheese) Mmmm Mmm Mmmm ...

... photo de frontiere ils se mettent immediatement dans une colere noire. Je feinds le touriste, je m excuse et supprime la photo et je montre comme quoi je l ai supprimmee en disant je savais pas. Ici la frontiere etaient litteralement sous grillage, un pont avec une riviere magnifique qui coulaient en dessous, puis un 2eme grillage. Et ceci en plein milieu de la jungle tropicale. On voit que les 2 pays ne se font pas confiance ...

... visitors, two of whom who had come almost entirely at their own expense, someplace other than Douala, and not in the usual cramped uncomfortable conditions they've had so far. I decided that Limbé, not far to the north, would be a good choice, and let Mr. Mabout know so. Yesterday M. Mabout had asked to see me and asked if other members could also go to Limbé with their children at their own expense. Of course I had no objection to that. He asked what kind of ...

... also kept me from und**taking the popular trek to Mount Cam**oon's summit, an adventure I'll have to leave for my next visit to the country. The landscape around Limbe is a pretty one with some still forested areas amidst the endless rows of oil palms, beautiful trees with fruits that produce the main cooking oil used in many tropical parts of the world, an oil so high in saturated fat that it makes butt** and lard look like health foods. Also unique are the Limbe ...

... in the cafe below ($1.80), filling and tasty. Spent the first day (Thursday 6th Oct) exploring the Óld Town´ where all of the really cool colonial Architecture is. That was all quite nice, but we found the city very polluted (worse than London - I think the vehicles are running on pure Crude oil!), and we really wanted to get out into the countryside and experience real Ecuador. So we decided on Friday morning that we would go to Otavalo, a beautiful market ...