Two years ago I took the coastal road in Cameroon from Douala to Kribi and afterwards to Campo from where i´ve crossed the Campo Ma´an nationalpark and joined the main road going from Yaounde to Gabon. A fantastic alternative for the boring and beaten main overland route, avoiding a lot of tarmac and crossing beautiful rainforest !

In Campo there is a a cameroonian immigration post, as you can take small boats over to Equatorial Guinee. The border is a roughly 500 meters wide rivermouth. I didn´t have a visa and had no intentions to cross as i knew about the trouble but for fun just went to the immigration and asked about if it was possible to cross. The officers told me no white guy crossed into Equatorial Guinee as long as they remember, a french guy with valid visa and motobike once tried but they sent him back as that border was only for locals. Was pretty funny, the cameroonian side was a wood shack and on the other side there was a pretty modern looking concrete building and the place looked very busy.

From Kribi on the tarmac becomes a good piste, the onward piste through the nationalparc is good too due to the logging industrie which uses it for their trucks. I didn´t have to pay to cross the nationalpark but had to obtain a permit at the conservation office which I had to show on the entrance gate.




greetings from Germany,
Chris

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