So here are some pix of the beautiful and various landscapes of the « Ring Road », which is more a trail (4WD or motorbikes only) that goes all around the North West province.
when the car breaks down on the bad road up the hill...
2 volunteer friends and I were hosted at a friend’s cousin’s house in Bamenda, the capital of the province, 3rd biggest city in the contry after Douala and Yaoundé.
Then we went to Dawara Ranch, one of the biggest of West Africa, with a huge Tea Estate and many animals (30 000 cows, 4 000 horses, goats, sheeps, but also ostrich and peacock)
There, the culture and the religion are well different : the Bororos are the main people, and look more like arabs (the main religion is Islam, as the mosque prooves it)
Driving North, we reached Wum, where we stayed at another cousin’s house. Another example of the Bororo people :
And from Wum, we hired the bikes to drive to Lake Nyos, very famous for the explosion that occured there in 1986 and killed 1700 people. This was due to the persence of underwater gases that are now evacuated, as shown by the fountain in the middle of the lake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lak
We also saw Lake Wum, smaller but as quiet as the previous one.
On the way back, we got to see again Menchum Falls (that were under the rain the day before).
We finished our trip with the most famous chefferie of the province (and maybe in the entire country) : Bafut Palace. We were lucky because there was a festival that occurs only once every two years ! (and usually, when you want to see traditonal dances during the visit, you have to pay for it…)
Before coming back to this article and writing more about the amazing things we’ve seen and done, i’ll just say that it was a very pleasant trip, both in term of landscape and people, and that i really hope to go back !
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