RingRoad in Cameroon
 

This might be interesting for everyone who is interested in to drive the RingRoad area in Cameroon.

Starting point for most trips is the town Bamenda. From there the road to Bafut is tarred and it continues as nice piste until Wum. You can camp at Wum lake, but beware of the mosquitos. View is nice though. Although many guidebooks indicate a route between Weh and Fundong, there is actually a newer road between Wum and Fundong. The road between Weh and Fundong is narrow, rocky and steep! Better and quicker to take the newer road.

From Fundong the road is tarred until Belo (and further, it is said). From Belo, we took the shortcut to Mt Oku. All villagers told us that there is a new road, I have the impression they actually indicated us the old road by saying we should turn right at the fork... This involved heavy offroading over a steep and rocky path. It took 4 hours to drive 15 km. And after those 4 hours, we met a junction on the left coming from Belo... draw your conclusions.:confused1:

From Oku to Bamenda is an easy piste... coming down all the way from 2000 m Ndop and then Bamenda. From Ndop it is tarred.

Hope this helps! :thumbup1:

Hello BlueToyo,
What map are you using?
I can see Wum, Fundong on the Michelin 741 but not the rest of the towns you mentioned.

I did Bamenda in 2008 and plan a return trip (to points further north of it)

More Confusion!
 

I wanted to do a short ring-road tour (in an afternoon, having come from Mamfe to Bamenda in the morning). I stopped in Wum, had a beer and asked for directions to Fundong. There was some debate about going on to We, but eventually was told not to, but to fork right by the big rocks, and went on a narrow rough trail for quite some way, didn't feel right but was. Improved after quite a while, and returned to tar (at Belo?). No sign of any new road from Wum to Fundong though!

Inc a beer-break, a few photos, and riding very steadily (as by this time it was dark) from Belo to Bamenda, took me five hours to do this 114 mile loop. With hindsight, I should have spent a whole day (or even stopped overnight) and done the big loop (Nkambe, Kumbo, etc.), as the scenery all around Bamenda is stunning, as well as being lovely and cool.

The last 40 miles in the dark back from around Belo has to be one of the hairiest/scariest rides ever, what with a combination of vehicles with no lights, potholes, winding road, animals, and thick black exhaust smoke. And you can't appreciate the scenery in the dark ;-) Not recommended, and breaking the golden rule, but Bamenda ATM not working earlier and had no money so had to get back.