DOUALA
Contact Douala and travel the 246 miles between the city of Yaoundé it takes a good three hours. The road, named "axis heavy" is taken by many cars, buses, taxis and trucks. This is one of the busiest areas of the country giving it regular maintenance and therefore a good general condition, we note in fact that little pothole hamper the road. If the day trip is safely and allows passengers to enjoy a vision of a lush green with the eye of trees, herbs, nature galore, timber merchants, vegetables or fruit, or more specifically people with outstretched arm holding animals like rats or raccoons or beavers kinds of dead. One can also "see" the warning signs at each location of an accident with fatalities on the axis for 246 ... 127 km. At night this trip is really quite chaotic and risky ... In Benin and Burkina Faso had a formal prohibition to consider making a trip at night because of bandits, the danger here is not of this type of crime, the danger is logging trucks! There are large trucks that carry incredible proportions of logs (ie the trunk) very long and very impressive ... They have not the right to move in day because of accidents and traffic jams they aroused, and they run roughly from 22 to 5 am, but then to that station will interfere with the recklessness of their passage. During these seven hours they are the kings of bitumen, it shall impose the law of bumper and fear nothing! They are very long, overcrowded, run too fast and sometimes without lights but it was really they who make the law! Mind the gap, slowdowns, with headlights that dazzle and blind ... I almost died 15 time! safe arrival I warmly thanked Francis was the driver who mastered the situation of a master hand
economic capital du pays, Douala occupe cette place essentielle dans l'économie camerounaise grâce à sa situation qui en fait le premier port du pays. C'est par le Port Autonome de Douala (le PAD) que tout transite...Douala est la ville la plus peuplée du Cameroun elle abrite prés de 2 500 000 habitants. Beaucoup d'entre eux sont arrivés dans les années 1990, les camerounais ayant perdu leur emploi ou leur activité rurale sont venus en ville faire fortune...Les nouveaux citadins se sont parqués à la périphérie de la ville dans les maison construites de bric et de broc formant tout simplement de véritables bidonvilles...Alors à Douala c'est le « Texas » la ville n'abritant pas de palais présidentiel it is less well maintained than Yaounde and significantly less safe ...
Before and even occasionally when a bandit is apprehended is subject to mob justice. Here justice is too slow and investigations; when conducted, resulting rarely mob justice takes over ... The bandit is then lynched in public, beaten until the police arrived, taking his time (the time the lynching have occurred) to recover in the best case or even an injured body. You may be think I'm exaggerating but I saw a story on CRTV that showed how a thief electric meter had been beaten by any a neighborhood, here we do not mess with the thief
Driving in Douala ...
"We're wild, the law of the bumper, small go after the big" I owe this formulation to Juliet's sister Flora. To drive in Douala, forget all those lost hours when you've read and reread the Code Rousseau (I do not know about you but I have read hundreds of times that damn book!), Forget the reasons that made you miss your license, forget that there is a traffic and integrate so well you integrate otherwise remain blocked on your parking space that is the law of the strongest and he who dares ... "In Douala's lawless" good without faith I do not know since religion is everywhere here in Cameroon and that whatever the church but it is lawless on ...
In terms of infrastructure, although it is not the administrative capital of Douala has nothing to envy in Yaounde. The multi-storey buildings and other flower here and there to every corner and it's a city with roads in "fair condition". Actually Douala is much better equipped in terms of restaurant, bar and other pleasure Yaounde. In Lille we Rue de la Soif there Douala Rue de la Joie ... Maquis, takeouts, braised fish, plantain vendors, here la recette qui fait de cette rue, la rue la plus animée de Douala, la rue où toute la nuit on danse on boit on s'amuse...
Pour dire vrai je me suis baladée au marché, la maman de Flore y vend de l'huile au détail, des cubes maggi, des arachides sous différentes formes, des pistaches (mais c'est pas du tout comme en France) et des sous-vêtements, dans le centre à Akwa et dans Bepanda, le quartier de la mère de Flore mais j'ai malheureusement vu qu'une petite facette de Douala. En effet, les pluies diluviennes qui s'abattent sur la ville, en cette saison des pluies, de 23h à 14h ont considérablement réduit notre planning de déplacements! J'essaierai d'y retourner avant to return and tell you a little more!
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