Enfin on commence à voir du pays
Notre premier petit voyage à l’extérieur de Maroua s’organise Saturday with our couple friends Suzanne and Ghislain. We're off to Mindif peak at 25 km from Maroua motorbike taxi after much hesitation and negotiation (auto-taxi, bus, motorcycle taxi). I'm really excited. I like to go on a motorcycle, it gives me a feeling of freedom, a sense of great adventure. The landscape along the dirt road is really beautiful, the wind tickles the skin, the difficulties on the road as holes, rivers to cross without a bridge makes it all the more original and exotic.
Mindif The peak is a mountain of rock, with a peak very very steep. You can imagine, we climbed all what can be done (mid-way between hiking and climbing). Finally, my cardio work, I think it's been that he has not been put to that. Two young boys are with us are our guides. They walk on this mountain is steep and rugged barefoot or in 'gogoune'. They are really impressive, it seems that this is their playground, it seems that there are monkeys on the mountain, but none in our field of vision to our great disappointment.
weather is beautiful: sun, wind, not too hot and we go almost to the great peak at my pleasure. The view is superb Mindif the village and surrounding area. I feel so alive I feel alive, full of energy and happiness. To top it off, Sunday we climb Mount Maroua Maroua. A young university student in management with us, it is interesting, motivated, full of ideas, I see these young people want, fortunately there are still few, few.
Tuesday is my first trip to work. I go with Henry and Marcel for Kousséri which is located entirely in northern Cameroon. We travel by bus. They return on their journey. We sit 5 in a space of 4, in reality we are 3 in a space of 2. The 270 km trip takes 5 hours because of road conditions and becomes tiresome in the long run. We had to show 4 times our identity cards on the way home because there are constant police checkpoints. Kousséri really has nothing to attract tourists no town charm, dirty, lacking decent restaurants apart from the tourist stop where we had a nice supper of love and the restaurant of peace. There are two hotels respectable but they sold out, we retreated to a hotel a bit noisy but clean with air conditioning.
On the way, it also crosses a border with Nigeria. Again, the legal and illegal trade in full swing. A large quantity of gasoline sold in Cameroon arrived illegally from Nigeria.
is also on this road we find the famous part of Waza, then we can do a safari. The rainy season is not over yet, we must wait until December for this experience. You'll have to wait for the story you too.
Marcel has also enjoyed these little visits Cameroon.
