Best Cameroonian Mt. Cameroon, Limbe Beach, Bamenda Grasslands, Dja Rainforest, Douala, Kribi and Cameroon Deep: Africa in Miniature Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Cameroon travel | Africa destinations Best Cameroonian Mt. Cameroon (4,040 m), Limbe Beach, Bamenda Grasslands, Dja Faunal Reserve (UNESCO 1987), Sangha Trinational (UNESCO 2012), Yaoundé, Foumban, Douala and Kribi: Africa in Miniature Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Cameroon is the country travel writers reach for when they want to compress an entire continent into one passport stamp. Inside 475,442 square kilometers, the land climbs from the black-sand surf of Kribi and Limbe through equatorial rainforest, up onto the Bamenda Grasslands at 1,300 to 3,000 meters, and finally onto the cone of Mt. Cameroon at 4,040 meters, the only active volcano in West Africa and the highest peak between the Sahara and the Cape. The country counts more than 250 ethnic groups, more than 250 indigenous languages, two colonial-inherited official languages (French and English), two UNESCO natural sites (Dja Faunal Reserve inscribed in 1987 and the trinational Sangha listed in 201...