Kribi
Last Thursday Flora is my intention to take advantage of the lack of pirates in Douala on vacation with their grandmother to make a weekend among girls in Kribi.
I have one thing to say: YES YES YES who may not want to go in this beautiful place famous?
Departure scheduled for Saturday morning, the program bus 270 km to reach the beaches of fine sand, beach and coconut trees ...
We go to with all our good mood Kribienne the transport agency. So we buy two tickets 6000 FCFA (10 €) for a round and expect the departure of the bus before to take place. The journey is more or less comfortable it is sitting on a bench at 5 to 4, it is still pretty tight! Finally, after 3:30 we discover the sea route Arrivals at the bus station we go to motorcycle-taxi to the hotel Marseille Plus. This address, recommended by Georges has the advantage of being cheaper than the hotels listed in my guide. Certainly it is not located in the city center, but joined him very easily by taxi motorcycle at 200 FCFA (0.30 €) for two.
I have once again noticed that Flora was tough in business since, although the prices were very attractive (10000 FCFA or 15 € the air-conditioned room and 7000 FCFA, or about 11 € ventilated room) she began to negotiate the room that finally allowed us to take us to 8000 FCFA air-conditioned room is 12 €.
After moving we took a taxi-bike destination in a place where you could eat grilled fish. The motorcycle taxi dropped us facing the sea and we could enjoy a bar braised (it is baked bbq) served with fried plantain was just too good! After tasting this small place to swim ... The beach is beautiful, almost deserted it offers out of sight of the sandy
coconut trees and canoes ... I've never put as easily in water that is it must be said too good! The sea was quite rough with waves carrying us we had to swim near the edge paying attention to our business remained on the beach under the watchful eye of some people more or less well-meaning ... Finally we have the resolve to bathe each in turn.
the evening we went for a walk in the street ... the joy of Kribi is a super busy street where is located the underground and other sales take the braised fish market and plantain and boxes Night! In this street it is difficult to discussion as the music is loud and noisy traffic ... There are hundreds of passers-com e came to drink a juice or a beer or eat a poisson.Donc in fact you'll order your grilled fish with a salesgirl you show him what you will settle down and scrub when you're ready to take it to you.
The next day we planned to make us the Lobe Falls, we left the hotel around 7:45 am. It easily catches a taxi that takes us all both for 1000 FCFA or 1.5 € 8 km from Kribi.
We arrive about 8:15 on a beach paradise. The fishermen just back from the busy fishing to remove fish from nets, canoes are docked them one after the other and are all painted. The sea is calm and shallow and its temperature is an invitation to bathe. A guide named Paul offers us a tour boat to go find a few more near falls and especially see a partly hidden by trees, we can not guess from the beach.
We had a lot of luck to arrive so early because we could enjoy this beautiful place and it was really nice to enjoy a place so quiet before the rush of daily dozens of tourists who arrive in the vicinity of 11am. After this little boat ride the guide Paul suggested that we take another boat up to several kilometers of the river and enter the Lobe and in countries pygmy.
So we market 15 minutes before joining the starting point of an unforgettable encounter. On the boat we enjoyed a very soothing landscape where the only sounds were those of the paddle touching the water and wildlife. I confess that I was not super confident to take the canoe but it was well worth it!
After a journey of about 25 minutes we reach the edges of this forest that hosts pygmies. This village of Pygmies being used to receive tourists, but it certainly features seems that they have unfortunately lost ancestral customs. For example, when we will meet it fashionable to offer in dining and certainly is not huge amounts but to the extent enchainent visits at the end of the day the amount is quite substantial and that given the level of life in Cameroon. So the Pygmies who live in this forest recluse, send guides tourists as our friend Paul to buy them from other clothes, cigarettes and other products.
That said, although assigned to certain facilities of the company (which would not have done?) Pygmies live in huts built of wood, they do not speak French. The men leave in the morning to find something to feed their families, so they live mainly on hunting and gathering. Children do not attend school and are educated by whether girls or boys based on their future role in the family.
I understand that if this visit was really exciting when I was embarrassed even to violate this way, their intimacy. Effectively if they refuse to live in town or village is still not for the daily visits of tourists in search of photos and memories and eager to meet exceptional, in consequence, although their home was very warm I did not want to take pictures to preserve a little more privacy.
I left that meeting very excited and turned upside down ... It's really cool people and really was a beautiful moment. The return boat ran smoothly for Flora and Paul and was an opportunity for me to get acquainted with various insects all the more formidable than the others who have good skin and flesh of my blanchette. Finally
once back on the beach, we saw other tourists had arrived to discover this beautiful landscape.
time a fish braised have time to be prepared we went swimming in the waterfalls ...
Our return took place in Yaounde pretty well, so to be honest I was surprised to see that after each of the three tolls that we crossed by bus, a road checkpoint held by the gendarmerie or police was installed. Indeed, the Yaounde-Kiri which crosses three tolls each time the driver must pay the sum of 500 FCFA (0.75 €) after each of these tolls were then installed checkpoints on roads maintained by gendarmerie or the police who intended only to stop cars, trucks and buses and supplement their month-end. Indeed, in exchange for a ticket of FCFA 500 or FCFA 1000 avoids lengthy and unnecessary control as the officer responsible for inspecting the vehicle will always find something wrong. Again, it's unfortunate but it is unfortunately a common practice in Cameroon, because yesterday I was in a taxi and we stopped by a policeman, who had no intention of us verbalize, but rather to extract the taxi-man a little something.
Anyway although some aspects of this trip are detrimental I must say that this little trip kribienne me the greatest good. Unfortunately I was attacked by insects formidable, already in France I am very sensitive to their bites, here we go direct swelling redness burns and allergies! Yay
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