Yaounde - Post Report Question and Answers
What have been the highlights of your time in this country? Best trips or experiences?
We took a beach trip to Kribi. It was just so relaxing to lay on the beach, or have a local cook a full fish and plantain meal right on the beach for us. The entire family loved our days there. - Jan 2020
Climbing Mount Cameroon was great. If I did it again, I would come down through the elephant sanctuary. Visiting the gorillas at Mefou was also good. They have decent enclosures and it is not far from Yaounde. On a more regular basis, just walking in the fields or forest on weekend mornings has been great to recharge the batteries. - Jun 2018
With little kids, this can be a great place. There is plenty for them to do, and you can have plenty of household help. You also get to spend lots of quality time together, as the commute is almost non-existent. There are some decent travel destinations as well, between the beaches, mountains, and parks. - Apr 2017
Word carvings from local artists. - Apr 2014
Making amazing friends. Enjoying lots of family time. - Jan 2014
Staying home with my child. - May 2012
The scenery is beautiful. While the buildings in Yaounde are generally ugly or squalid, the surrounding mountains with lush vegetation make up for that. - Sep 2011
For Thanksgiving, our family spent the weekend with missionary friends in the NW province where I visited an excellent teaching hospital staffed almost fully by American doctors. - Mar 2010
Eating fresh cooked fish on the beach in Kribi and Limbe, grinding and roasting freshly picked coffee beans with Monks in a beautiful monastary in Foumban. - Jan 2010
