When you’re alone and traveling light, you’ve got the possibility to catch a motorcycle.
You’ll miss the comfort of a car or bus, but it is an experience at its own.
Take your time to look around; you’ll enjoy the beautiful landscapes much more.
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 | Motorcycles are fun!!! |   |  |
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 |  on June 26, 2004 |
When you’re traveling in remote areas, you don’t always find a bus or car to reach your next destination. When you’re alone and traveling light, you’ve got the possibility to catch a motorcycle. You’ll miss the comfort of a car or bus, but it is an experience at its own. Take your time to look around; you’ll enjoy the beautiful landscapes much more. |
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| Traveling by train | | |
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| on June 26, 2004 |
It’s an adventure on its own, traveling by train. You can go from Douala to Yaoundé and from Yaoundé to Ngouandere and back of course. Traveling by train is safe, but they don’t always leave on time. The vehicles are very old and it’s possible the locomotive gets broken along the way. So you’ll better take a first class ticket, it’s a little bit more expensive than a second class ticket. But you’ll get airco and nice seats for it and when you’re stuck along the route somewhere in the forests; it’s nice to cool off in your wagon. |
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| Bus, Taxi, Tro-Tro. | | |
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| on June 26, 2004 |
A short trip (when you stop a taxi along the road) will cost you 100 cfa. But you’ll also find bus and taxi station in every town. When you take the bus or tro tro the prices are fixed. First inform yourself, the other people know the prices. But you’ll have to bargain for the price of your luggage. Good luck. |
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| Taxis - the yellow fleet | | |
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 |  on November 22, 2004 |
Public transport within the cities is handled by taxis. Most of them are yellow and they dominate the traffic in the cities. Sometimes you get the impression that the majority of the cars are taxis. There are different systems: Taxi ramassage These taxis go on a special route. You share them with other passengers and have to know where you have to change to another taxi to get to your destination. This makes the usage for a traveller a bit difficult. But the prices are low (150 - 175 CFA-France per trip) Taxi course These taxis transport only one passenger to the destination he wants to go. They charge 2.000 CFA-Franc per hour. Taxi depot These taxis bring you to the destination you want to go. But you allow the driver to pick up other passengers on the way. They charge about 1.000 CFA-France per hour. 1.000 CFA-Franc are about 1,5 EURO or 2 US$ (Nov. 2004) |
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| Air Travel | | |
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| on November 22, 2004 |
The two major international airports of Cameroon are at the capitol Yaounde and the major business city Douala. International connections are mainly to Europe served by the followings airlines: from Paris by Air France From Brussels by SN Brussels from Zurich by Swiss International Air Lines from Amsterdam by KLM (only to Douala) |
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| Busses between the cities | | |
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| on November 22, 2004 |
Most public transport between the cities is handled by busses. They depart from bus terminals (gare routière). Most of the busses are very old and lack modern convieniences like air conditioning. There are timetables - but don't expect that a bus leaves or arrives in time. The busses have to stop on the road every now and then at toll charge posts. This is a good opportunity to by some food from locals who come to the bus and sell oranges, peanuts, kebabs and other stuff. |
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| Picturesque Road to Rhumsiki |  | |
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 |  on April 16, 2004 |
From the Nigerian border near Boukoula we took the unpaved road to the north to Rhumsiki. This is the road leading from Garoua to Rhumsiki. On the map it is a ''green'' road, meaning ''a picturesque stretch of road''. And it is really a scenic road, leading through a rather rough and mountaineous landscape. We passed some villages. The difference with Nigeria is, that the kids here are more used to tourists and asked for an ''cadeau'' or ''bic''. |
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| Yellow and blue....... | | |
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| on April 21, 2004 |
We travelled in Cameroon by truck. The yellow one is ours. It was nice to travel in this rather open truck at low speed, so normally we had easily contact with the people along the road. On our way from Waza National Park to the border wit Chad we had to travel with two trucks together and also at higher speed, because of safety reasons. We made also a short sanitary stop together. Lucky us, we didn't meet any problem along this road of ill fame. |
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| Get to the north | | |
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 |  on June 26, 2003 |
(2001) There are really only two options to get to the north of Cameroon. Fly from Yaounde or Douala on Cameroon Airlines, or take the train from Yaounde to Ngaoundere. In either case, you should expect a little bit of adventure (I've heard of people waiting for three days for the pilot to show up, or three days for a derailed car to be moved). The train is generally clean and safe, and sleeper cars are available with 2 or 4 beds. Each of my four experiences on the train took less than 24 hours (leaving Yaounde/Ngaoundere in the evening and arriving in the other place the next morning), and watching the changing landscape, culture, and religion is pretty neat. Around holidays you might want to book a seat a few days in advance, as the train can fill up. |
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| Alliance Voyages | | |
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| on February 4, 2008 |
This agency connects Yaoudé-Bertoua-Batouri-Yokadou |
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