Home of the Indomitable Lions, the national football team, Cameroon is a varied place culturally, geographically, and linguistically. Try a multi-day hike up Mount Cameroon, a 4095-meter high active volcano that rises from the coast through rainforest. In Foumban you can visit the Royal Palace of the Bamoun and an associated museum. Explore Waza National Park, the most popular of Cameroon’s parks, and an outstanding place to view giraffes, birds, and often elephants and lions as well. Relax on the beaches around Kribi, which are some of the best in West Africa. The Ring Road encircles an area known as the Grassfields, which are hilly meadows and excellent scenery. This area also contains a number of volcanoes and crater lakes. One of these crater lakes (Lake Nyos) released a cloud of gas in 1986 that killed thousands of people. In other words, be a little careful around there! Visitors to Cameroon can also stop in the pleasantly located capital city of Yaounde and check out museums such as the Petit Musee d’Art Camerounais. For a taste (albeit increasingly commercialized) of traditional Cameroon, you can visit the village of Roumski and be taken around to see the local craftspeople and villagers.
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