Contents

1. 1 Cameroon
   1. 1.1 Must See
   2. 1.2 Facts
   3. 1.3 Introduction
   4. 1.4 History
   5. 1.5 Culture
   6. 1.6 Art
   7. 1.7 Environment
   8. 1.8 Transportation
      1. 1.8.1 Air
      2. 1.8.2 Bus
      3. 1.8.3 Train
      4. 1.8.4 Borders
   9. 1.9 Yaounde
      1. 1.9.1 Introduction
      2. 1.9.2 Orientation
      3. 1.9.3 Information
         1. 1.9.3.1 Internet access
         2. 1.9.3.2 Medical care
         3. 1.9.3.3 Cash
         4. 1.9.3.4 Post & Telephone
         5. 1.9.3.5 Scams
      4. 1.9.4 Sightseeing
      5. 1.9.5 Accommodation
      6. 1.9.6 Food
      7. 1.9.7 Drink
      8. 1.9.8 Shop
      9. 1.9.9 Transportation
         1. 1.9.9.1 Air
         2. 1.9.9.2 Bus
         3. 1.9.9.3 Train
         4. 1.9.9.4 Taxi
2. 2 South Cameroon
   1. 2.1 Introduction
   2. 2.2 Ebolowa
   3. 2.3 Kribi
      1. 2.3.1 Accommodation
      2. 2.3.2 Dining
      3. 2.3.3 Transportation
   4. 2.4 Campo
   5. 2.5 West Cameroon
   6. 2.6 Introduction
   7. 2.7 Douala
      1. 2.7.1 Introduction
      2. 2.7.2 Orientation
      3. 2.7.3 Information
         1. 2.7.3.1 Internet
         2. 2.7.3.2 Medical
         3. 2.7.3.3 Cash
         4. 2.7.3.4 Post
         5. 2.7.3.5 Travel Agents
         6. 2.7.3.6 Scams
      4. 2.7.4 Accommodation
3. 3 Other Destinations
   1. 3.1 Bamenda
   2. 3.2 Limbe
   3. 3.3 Buea (Mt. Cameroon)

Cameroon

Must See

• Waza National Park - Cameroon version of a safari: affordable, accessible and teeming with elephants, giraffes and much more.
  
  
• Mandala Mountains - Almost unlimited hiking through beautiful countryside and traditional villages.
  
  
• Kribi - A laid-back beach town where travelers and Cameroonians immediately come to swim, relax, eat, drink and dance .
  
  
• North West - Scenic mountainous region, rich in history, with tribal chiefdoms, sultans, and the challenge of the ring road.
  
  
• Mt Cameroon - the highest peak in the region is rising from the foothills town of Buea and a rewarding challenge for climbers.
  
  

Facts

• Area - 469,440 sq km (slightly smaller than Spain, a little larger than California)
• ATM - can be found at banks in large cities, which usually involve VISA
• Borders - Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea open to all, the Central African Republic, Congo, often closed, check in advance.
• Budget - U.S. $ 30 per day, 20 euros per day
• Capital - Yaounde
• Languages - French, English, Pidgin, local dialects
• Money - Central African CFA: 1 EUR = CFA650
• Population - 16.2 million
• Seasons - hot all year round; north:) wet (April-September, the south:) heavy rains (June to October.
• Phone - Country Code: 237, GSM mobile network, prepaid SIMs available from Orange and MTN
• Time - GMT / UMT 1, BMT
• Visa - on all those in neighboring countries, the prices vary but usually expensive.

Introduction

Cameroon has it all. Of course, other African countries could say that about themselves, but few can say it with the same confidence, Cameroon can. Where else can you get from beach resorts through dense rainforest teeming with wildlife to the bustling modern cities go, then by train to the arid, predominantly Muslim north, where you can find traditional villages, which are found on rocks, all in one country?

The history of the country has a heritage of diverse, multi-lingual number of people living side by side on the left. Travelers can hike into the mountains to Cameroon in the north, explore the jungle in the south, or laze the hills and towns along the coast. All that plus there is the highest mountain in the region rose from near the sea, a deadly sea, sultans, kings and tribes throughout the day and all night ceremonies and festivities. Oh, and there is a lion - wild in the bush and inflexible to those on the football field.

History

Cameroon is another example of the colonial powers, creating a country, regardless of frontiers tribal or geography. The various parts of present-day Cameroon was divided between European countries and in the colonial era to the modern boundaries were established in 1961, assigned, thereby enabling some Francophone-Anglophone part of the nation.

Portuguese explorers sailed the fist Wouri River in 1472, and named him) Rio dos Camarões (River of Prawns. Shortly after the arrival of the Portuguese maritime Fulani pastoral nomads from present-day Nigeria began to migrate overland from the north to force the indigenous forest to the south. The Fulani migration took extra urgency in the early 17th Century when they fled the inceasingly predatory attention of the Dutch, Portuguese and British slave traders.

British influence was limited in 1884, when Germany signed a contract with the well-organized chiefdoms of Douala, central plateau Bamileke signed, although the inhabitants of the agreement not much more than a shift from one form of colonial exploitation to another. After the First World War, the German protectorate of Cameroon was carved up between France and Britain.

Local rebellions in French-controlled Cameroon in the 1950s were brutally suppressed, but throw the dynamics in the whole of Africa to the shackles of colonial rule soon seized. Self-government was granted in French Cameroon in 1958, quickly from independence on 1 January 1960 followed.

Ahmadou Ahidjo, leader of a party's independence, became president of the newly independent state, a position he had when he held until his retirement in 1982. Ahidjo, a man with a total lack of charisma that ensures its longevity through the cultivation of useful alliances, brutal repression and authoritarian regional favoritism.

In October 1961, UN-sponsored referendum in the British mandate ended in NW Cameroon split into two, with the area around the land of Bamenda decide to join Cameroon, Nigeria and the rest of Accession. In June 1972 replaced the federal structure of the two bz, Cameroon was the central United Republic of Cameroon - a movement that has until now bitterly felt by many in the English town of Cameroon, who believe that instead of a true unity they have 2. become class citizens.

In 1982, Ahidjo's hand-picked successor, Paul Biya, quickly distanced himself from his former mentor, but took many repressive measures Ahidjo's. In the late 1980s, clamed Biya hard to calls for multiparty democracy. Diversions, such impressive performance of the national team at the 1990 World Cup bought him time, but demands for freedom would not go away and Biya was forced to legalize opposition parties, 25 in 1991. As it turned out that several limits on the president, these parties were quick, albeit temporarily suspended, along with the Constitution.

The first democratic elections in 25 years have been reluctant to be held in 1992 and saw movement depends of the Cameroon People's Democratic Party (of Biya LED) in power with the support of smaller parties. International observers alleged extensive vote-rigging and intimidation.

The international anti-corruption organization - Transparency International - Cameroon consistently ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world. This phenomenon affects all aspects of daily life, from dealing with small government officials to the rampant destruction of endangered rainforests of the country by logging interests near the government district.

Today, Cameroon is available in a state of unrest quiet, with a stagnant economy, causing hardship for many citizens and detained simmering political unrest govenmental by a strict control.

Culture

Cameroonians are always working, ambitious and hardworking, are scrambling to make a better life. It is only a slight exaggeration when people say that if Cameroon's borders, the countries of Central Africa joins starve to death; Cameroon grows, produces and exports much of what you find in the market stalls in the neighboring countries. Of course, this energy is not always strictly legal measures is limited because Cameroonians might have a reputation of crooks and fraudsters.

It is hard to grasp the Cameroonian people, because it gets together from so many different elements - in Anglophone West Francophone in the east, Christians in the south, in the Muslim north, with many exceptions, usually mingled with everyone along, but Cameroon have a lively discussion about their differences and ethnic tensions and discrimination are common.

Art

Cameroon has produced some of the most famous artists of the region. In the literature, Mongo Beti, Cameroonian writer, like many others, deals with the legacy of colonialism. Musically, Manu Dibango is the country's brightest star.

Environment

The country, like the people who has a lot of different elements of the colonial era borders thrown. The South is deep forest in a low coastal plain. In the middle of the country, the jungle gives way to a sparsely populated savanna. The north and far north are in the vicinity of the Sahel zone, with dry, sandy conditions, all the way to Lake Chad. Before the mountains west of the country, from Mt. Cameroon near the Atlantic coast to the Bamenda Highlands and the Mandara Mountains in the north.

Cameroon has many wild animals when threatened encroachement of habitat and poaching for the bushmeat trade. In the south there are gorillas, chimpanzees, forest elephants and a variety of rare Central African species, but they are almost impossible to see in the dense forest. The bushland in the north, the animals are much easier to find. The best place for wildlife viewing is Waza National Park in the north of the country. Many other national parks will be identified and made accessible to visitors in the hope of developing an eco-industry, while protecting endangered habitats.

Transportation

Air

Both Yaounde and Douala, Cameroon to have international airports connect the major cities in Africa and Europe. Cameroon Airlines is the local carrier, with flights to major cities throughout Central and West Africa.

Cameroon Airlines and several smaller companies have flights across the country that are expensive but convenient and secure. A single fare from Yaoundé to Maroua is U.S. $ 160, while the shorter flights, such as Yaounde N'Gaoundere to U.S. are $ 75.

Flights to neighboring countries can be surprisingly expensive: from Douala to Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) U.S. $ is 320 back, Libreville (Gabon) U.S. $ 300 and Abidjan (Ivory Coast) back around 300 U.S. dollars.

Note that it pay a discrepancy in the amount of U.S. $ 17 for all international flights, you at the airport and get a stamp on your boarding pass.

Bus

Cameroon has an extremely competitive and well-organized bus system connects all major cities. The prices are low and steady, and on some buses, you can even have a seat. Some examples of prices: $ 5 Yaounde to Douala, Bamenda to Buea U.S. $ 7 and N'Gaoundere Maroua to 10 U.S. dollars. However, some drivers are very inconsiderate, and bus accidents happen all too frequently.

Train

There is a connection between Yaounde and Douala and Yaounde and between the northern city N'Gaoundere.

Borders

There are open borders with all neighboring countries.

• Central African Republic
  Head east to Garoua-Boulai or Kenzou. These limits are not always open. Also going to check here before you. The trip to Gabon goes over the Ntem river in a dugout canoe (traditional canoe) from Kye Ossi, south of Ambam to exit the page where Gabonese taxis for Bitam.
  
  
• Chad
  For Chad, travelers head to Kousseri in the far north of the border near N'Djamena. Minibuses to Kousseri of Maroua, but this area has a history of instability to consider as before explained.
  
  
• Equatorial Guinea
  Border crossings are Ebebiyin on the west side of Equatorial Guinea and Campo, where you can rent a canoe to take you closer to the border at Bata.
  
  
• Nigeria
  To / from Nigeria, the main border crossing points are ÉKÖK, west of Mamfe, where you cross to Mfum (Nigeria) for taxis to Calabar, and Banki in the extreme north of the ferry connections to Maiduguri.

Yaounde

Introduction

Cameroon's capital Yaounde, is a jumble of seemingly unplanned high-rise hotels and modern architecture Side-by-side with slums and crowded markets are all committed to rolling hills. Most travelers spend some time here at the end always Visa or catching a plane, train or bus. It is a pleasant place to stay, with comfortable accommodations and good, inexpensive restaurants.

Orientation

The airport is located south of the city by taxi, the only way, the fare is negotiable.

Yaounde streets do not follow a pattern, it is easy to get lost. In order around the center based on the "Places" or "rond-point" (square or round) that are the main attractions, this is like Cameroon instructions to give. The four water towers, are high on a hill and visible from much of the city, also useful landmarks when you're in the middle of the city around North.

Most of the embassies and consulates and international restaurants that go with them, are in the affluent neighborhood of Bastos, on the north side of town.

Buses from other cities stop in various gare routieres (stops) around the city, usually a short taxi ride away from downtown. The station, but centrally located, and you can go from there to some of the central hotels.

Information

Internet access

Yaounde has dozens of Internet cafes with fast connections at a reasonable price (about U.S. $ 1 per hour).

Medical care

There are many well-stocked pharmacies all over town. When in need of a hospital trying Polyclinque Andre Fouda in the quarter-Ellig Essono or Polyclinique de Grace, located in Centerville, near the cinema Abbias.

Cash

There are ATMs in most of the major banks. However, the change traveler's checks can be made with them are a real money loser, and the banks require that you bring the original purchase receipt along with the checks before they will change it. It is best to make multiple copies if you need to check with companies involved later for a refund.

Post & Telephone

The central post office is an important local landmark, just south of downtown at Place Ahmadou Ahidjo.

Tele boutiques are found in Yaounde. You can buy phone cards from them or from the many street vendors, the price (U.S. $ 5 or U.S. $ 15) is approximately equal.

Scams

Yaounde has a bad reputation for petty crime. Pickpocketing is common in the masses, as well as various distraction-and-grave systems. Serious crime is not a problem, but keep a firm grip on your belongings, especially in the central market area.

Sightseeing

Accommodation

1. Hotel ideal (Carrefour Nlongkak, U.S. $ 14) - This modern and clean hotel lives up to its name, with a central location and some of the cheapest rooms in town. It is especially useful when you are in town to get visas, and there are many restaurants and bars nearby.
   
   
2. Auberge de la Paix (Boulevard de l'OCAM, U.S. $ 9) - South of town, this place has a very simple and small rooms.
   
   
3. Hotel Palmier (Rue Albert Ateba levels, U.S. $ 12) - "Faded Glory" does not even begin to describe the condition of this obviously once stylish hotel. The wallpaper is found in the form of sheets, the carpet is scruffy and the shower is a trickle. There is a restaurant and a bar (without food and drink, but they are across the road and run you something), the rooms are large and cheap, and the location is central to street food, bars and restaurants. If you decide to stay here to bring a sense of humor and a flashlight for when the electricity goes out
   

Food

1. Restaurant Le Vital (Avenue de L'Independence, U.S. $ 4) - Le Vital is the place to go for vegetarian food, especially omelettes and sandwiches, with a convenient central location and very attentive staff.
   
   
2. Le Buffet (Rue Joseph Mbella Eloumden, U.S. $ 3) - West of Carrefour Nlognkak, this popular restaurant is not a surprise, a buffet where you choose what you want and pay for the item. The food is fresh, tasty and affordable, such as chicken or fish with vegetables.
   
   
3. Le Diner (Rue Albert Ebe, U.S. $ 5) - Except for the embassies, Le Diner has a menu du jour to go and delicious spring rolls. It is a bit more formal than it should be, but the food is worth it.

Drink

1. Youpe Sawa (Boulevard de l'OCAM) - A lively bar, live entertainment every night and have glasses' "on the weekends.