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Kingdom Djo

Posted on March 27th, 2009 in Africa,Cameroon by robjkentjr

It was starting to get late and we still had not found a place to sleep.  Maybe it would have been better if we kept going.
We immediately recognized the change in architectural style as we entered the Kingdom.
Do you think the king lives in this hut?
However, this is where he keeps his 120 wives and children.
It’s to be the king.
We found a quite place to sleep at last!  Or was it?
Okay, three hanging out playing marbles.  We can deal with that.
An hour later, word spread that the circus was in town.  It was pretty much like this until we left the next morning.
Now it is just ridiculous.  It is raining, cold, and getting late but still no one went home.  Through the night, we had several visitors and the King even summoned me to bring him a gift for letting us stay on his land.
By 3am, all the drunks had stopped demanding food and passed out in our chairs.  We were out of there as quick as possible the next morning.

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Shopping

Posted on March 13th, 2009 in Africa,Cameroon by robjkentjr

On a mission to find dried black mushrooms before leaving civilization again, we plunged into the city traffic to find the Super Marché Casino.  It is only the best expatriate shopping center in all of West Africa.
The French do love their wine and Cameroon being a former colony, the locals seem to have kept the habit.
We opted to get our vegetables on the road while driving out of Yaoundé.  They were all enormous and it was quite a change from , where nothing was grown.
I can barely keep a hat on my head and have never ceased amazement with what people can carry.
What you do not see is how steep this hill really is.
Here is the colorful mobile refill station.  You can always find the color-coded shop you need.
The houses are still the square European design.  Still no round grass huts but they are coming.
We thought it would lead to a campsite but found nothing
except voracious bugs.
Tomorrow, we enter the Ring Road mountain kingdoms.  The first king and all of his subjects we will meet is the Djo.

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