Yaounde, Cameroons

We arrived back in Limbe on the coast after our trek up Mount Cameroon. Nothing had changed. The truck was in the same place and nobody had done anything of note. It had rained but that the sum of the news.

I didn't put up my tent but upgraded to a room. I had the best nights sleep ever after camping for more than a week.

The oil rig out to sea was still there...

and there was the same large oil tanker on the horizon.

Then we drove along the coast via Douala, the largest and busiest city in Cameroon. There is a large port and a big river here. A view from the road bridge over to the railway bridge.

 A general view of Douala on the horizon and a railway in the foreground although I saw no trains.

 Then we arrived at Kribi on the coast. We camped in the grounds of a hotel that was on the beach with nice clean sandy beaches.

 A view back across a lagoon towards the hotel.

 The thing to do here is to relax on the beach or walk along the beach to reach a waterfall where a river plunges over a waterfall to crash into the sea.

Then it was on to Yaounde, the capital in the centre of the country. We were going to stay in the grounds of the local Presbyterian Mission with the first building celebrating its hundredth anniversary.

It was the highest hill around and had four large water towers next door. There were more than a dozen antennae within 500m but there was no wifi and no network and it was difficult to find an electricity socket to recharge computers. I had to go and find a hotel in the centre of the city to connect with the outside world.

Another view of the original mission.

And the church also in the mission grounds.

But despite the paucity of modern communications, there were some lovely sunsets.