Gabon to Congo, Ndendé to Dolisie to Pointe-Noire

There will be no more photos in this space at the moment. I ran out of the 3GB space allowance on this site and I am not willing to upgrade. Running a blog on a mobile phone on WordPress is a joke. Anytime I try editing posts that have photos all formatting goes bust, all […]

Lambaréné and Ndendé

The initial plan of seeing Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the morning and catching afternoon transport to Ndendé, the last town in Gabon before Congo, of course failed. There are men in town around where the transport North (Libreville etc.) and South (Mouila & Ndendé) leaves who somehow match passengers to vehicles. One of them gave […]

Libreville to Lambaréné

Taxi to PK8 I called for 1000cfa, but not before I had my baguette with salad and coffee, two coffees. PK8 sounds like kilometre 8, away from the city. The taxi driver told me I should watch out for price hikes for a white man and told me I should not pay more than 5000cfa.The […]

Two days in Libreville

In my comfortable bed with my very comfortable pillows and fresh crispy linen I slept very well. First stop: du café. I had three cups. 300cfa each. I asked where to get the coffee that is the not ground. The men told me to go to ancien Sobraga (later I found out Sobraga stands for […]

Bitam to Libreville

I found two agencies in Bitam going to Libreville. One told me the bus leaves at 4am and the next one going at 7am. There was a big bus and a small.bus standing there. The big bus looked promising. The other one told me the bus leaves at 5am, then they told me 5am is […]

Ebolowa, Cameroon to Bitam, Gabon, attempt no. 2

Armed with printed reservations I took a moto to immigration office. There I had to wait a bit as Mr Johnson was not yet in the office at 9am. It took a minute to get a stamp, he didn’t bother registering me again, I was there already the day before. I took an omelette in […]

Ebolowa, Cameroon to Bitam, Gabon

We rode in a moto for long, I asked him to take me where transport to Ambam leaves. Ambam is the last town before Cameroon ends, about 30kms away from both Gabon and Equatorial Guinea borders. Ebolowa suddenly seemed much larger than it looked. I was dropped on the roadside, no bus agency in sight, […]

Visa no. 15: Gabon in Yaoundé

The security man makes sure you wear long trousers (and possibly shirt). I had shirt with short sleeves and shorts, I lost my long trousers on my way. He didn’t let me in. He simply said I must buy trousers and that it’s not him that it’s the consul and that the rules are written […]