Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville

I showed up at the Ocean du Nord bus station around 5:45am, just like I was told. Apparently there are two Ocean du Nord stations in town but somehow the taxi managed to take me to the right one (the taxi driver asked if I would be travelling from that station and he knew which […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Banyo to Ngaoundere

I was thinking how the travel around here doesn’t get easier. After the day on the bike and the crazy mountain roads I was hoping for a bus ride to N’Gaoundéré being an easy thing. Ha. It’s 330kms from Banyo to N’Gaoundéré where I was going to pick the night train to Yaoundé on a […]

Bali, Nigeria to Gembu

I woke up at night when the light was cut off and the fan stopped working. I was all in sweat. Of course water was not running from the tap and I didn’t fill the bucket in the evening. Then, a muezzin started his chants and I was glad because I thought if was already […]

Ogoja to Bali, Nigeria

Bali in Nigeria is pronounced Bæli. For first time in long time I didn’t wake up by myself at 5am but an alarm clock woke me up at 5:30am. I was so sleepy I kept snoozing it until 6am. I took okada to the junction outside Ogoja, the one on the main road, N300. When […]

Calabar to Ogoja

I didn’t know if I wanted to leave Calabar. I thought I’d have to go to the bank and get some money or find a moneychanger, I didn’t know how long the trip to the border town of Gembu would take me, I reckoned two days if I was lucky, possibly three days, then crossing […]

Abidjan to Cape Coast

It took me long time to get off bed. I am not rushing to Ghana. I went out, had my coffees, a sandwich with some meat inside, tasty, and I also stocked up on gauze in a pharmacy that after the long holidays was finally open. I left maybe at 11am. There is little information […]

Kong to Bondoukou, Ivorian geography in 17 hours

The story of the journey from Kong to Bondoukou begins as usual in Ivory Coast. While waiting for bus to Kong in Ferkéssedougou, aka Ferké, I asked one of the ticketmasters about getting to Bondoukou. I was considering perhaps it would be easier to get back to Ferké the same day from Kong and continue […]