Cameroon is a beautiful African safari and tourist destination with a great history, traditions and an epitome of scenes which might put it in Africa. It is also relatively peaceful and unscarred by the regional propensity for horror. Although politically rigid, it is not a dictatorship, and although a little sharp, it is nowhere near as corrupt as its neighbors.

Situated in the elbow of the Gulf Of Guinea, Cameroon straddles three political regions. With its toes dipped in the central African equatorial zone, its face pressed against the brawny haunches of the Niger Delta, and its elbows up in the Lake Chad region, Cameroon is all things to all people. It is ostensibly bilingual, although the Francophone element outnumbers the Anglophone, and with 280 distinct ethnic groups within the country, the indigenous languages outnumber them both.

Cameroon Holiday Tours

Yaoundé is known to be the capital of Cameroon and still the second biggest city in the country after Douala. Its location is beautified with green, hilly backdrop along with a wonderful impulsive urban development. The most exciting thing about this city is that its well organized, clean at all times with hospitable people. It has a nice plan of markets, vigorous bar, music and art. Douala is the biggest city in Cameroon with lively markets and business located on the banks of Wouri river, just a few kilometers from the coast

The country has fine resort beaches that are suited in the south of the southern town of Kribi and in Limbe a famous fishing town. This is a place for the rich, expatriates in addition to the tourists as well. Yaoundé happens to lie in the typical West African beach setting with credible palms, open air restaurants, wide sandy beaches, long with fish markets.

In this diverse beautiful country are several different cultures including the famous Ba’Aka pygmy forest people to nomadic Fulani in the Sahel and other peoples with more than 200 local languages. The forest people are known to eat monkeys and also have vibrant monkey game meat trade hence the increasing conservation of primates throughout the rain forest on western Cameroon

The south west is a mountainous area dominated by a number of active volcanoes with fertile farming soils on the lower slopes. Mount Cameroon is the highest peak in west Africa, an active volcano that exploded a decade ago creating great threat to the Pgymy population that lived on the foothills. Trekking Mount Cameroon is a recommended Cameroon holiday activity that you can not miss

Cameroon wildlife tours

Cameroon holidays are exciting tours of not only the beaches, mountains and forests but also it diverse array of wildlife found in its open savannah game parks and forested areas.

Cameroon national parks
Cameroon has a number of notable National Parks, but Waza National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, is not only one of the most notable in the country, but of the best preserved and most accessible in the region. At over 170 000 hectares, it is home to the classic African plains species including lion, elephant, giraffe and many others. This park is open from mid November to around mid June. Some of the other smaller parks in Cameroon include;
• Bénoué National Park
• Bouba National Park
• Boumba National Park
• Campo Ma’an National Park
• Faro National Park
• Korup National Park
• Lake Lobake National Park
• Nki National Park

Cameroon primate tours

Cameroon forests on the slopes of mount Cameroon are the most beautiful place to find some of the world’s large populations of primates including the mountain gorillas, colobus monkeys, chimpanzees, mangabeys and so much more. Limbe Wildlife Park is a conservation centre for these primates, some of them only found in Cameroon.

Dzanga Sangha reserve on the border with Central Africa Republic is the place to find the habituated western lowland gorillas. In this forest are unique plant species, elephants, buffalos, antelopes, mangabeys and a good bird life population.

When to Visit Cameroon

There is something vital to take note, when to visit the Cameroon. This is because the roads are so dusty and the best time would be when it rains of which it may be too mud for the vehicles to trek through. Avoid the wet seasons unless you hire 4wd to take you around on holidays in Cameroon.

For those who visit the southern part, normally receive rain occasionally annually. This usually takes place in the months of June and October. The climate in the north is dry with a diverse summer wet season between mid-April and October. But the best months to visit on Cameroon holidays is the winter months between November and February.

Cameroon Travel

Cameroon shares a boundary with Chad along with the Central African Republic and this has been observed as an incidence of carjacking and banditry. Therefore in case you want to visit Waza national park, the best thing to do is to go with a tour operator who is well familiar with the area

On the Nigerian border is the Bakassi peninsular, a notable crime zone in west Africa.  Booking a local guide to take the holiday trip with you will make your Cameroon vacation tours memorable and a lot safer.

 

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