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, […]

Kribi to Douala to Yaoundé to Ebolowa

It was raining in the morning and I didn’t get to the agence for the bus to Yaoundé before 10am. At La Kribienne I saw a crowd of people and a long line to the ticket counter. It’s less than 200kms to Ebolowa from Kribi as crow flies to the East but apparently the road […]

Days in Kribi

The two days I spent in Kribi were lazy. There was a stand where I had my avocado salad in the morning, 700cfa. Café Abou was closed in the morning and Abou himself told me it’s because of Ramadan. I almost forgot. He still made me the 100cfa coffee. The next day however he said […]

Douala to Kribi

Kribi is one place in Cameroon where you can experience beaches. The other place is Limbe & Idenao under Mt Cameroon – these are even more picturesque with the mountain backdrop and dark lava beaches – but at the moment I think these places are no-go due to the current situation in English part of […]

Yaoundé to Douala

So, yeah, at about 7am, an hour after my reserved bus to Douala left, I went out for my avocado salad and instant coffee. I took a shared taxi, 500cfa, to Mwam. I arrived 9:40am when a VIP bus was just leaving. The woman in the ticket office refused to sell me the ticket saying […]

A Tuesday in Yaoundé

I stayed another day in Yaoundé. I had the usual avocado salad and instant coffee at a street stand, the one I went to first, the man was actually serving salad instead of lettuce. How he washed the salad is another matter: he has a huge bucket full of water, which he poured into a […]