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Today we follow a 16-day-expedition a friend of mine has made in 2016. Driving from Douala, Cameroon, ...

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... passing Lake Ossa...

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... on the N3...

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... to Yaounde.

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After changing to a 4WD they went on following the N10 eastwards...

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... with a stop in Batouri.

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Days later they crossed the border to the Centra African Republic. One of the poorest countries in the world, with a high rate of analphabetics, ...

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... but with cities like Nola, where Diamond traders and corruption control everything, from business to security.

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Lucky are those who can get on southwards to Dzangha Sangha NP.

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Even more lucky if you manage encounters in free wildlife.

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As there is no airport or bushstrip, we have to return directly, over Bayanga, ...

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... whilst the real traveller had to get ready for driving after some days.

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The virtual pilot takes a shortcut over the clouds...

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... meeting the N10 again near Ayos, Cameroon.

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Passing Yaounde, ...

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... and, later the Mowasse wetlands, ...

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... on the way to Tiko, near the Atlantic coast.

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I am happy that he has shared his fantastic travel report with me, but I am sure I will not make such a trip in reality.

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Fantastic set Gerold made even better with the RL images.

Sadly Nola is no different to so many places in the world.

Some great info too, I had to scurry over to Google the meaning of analphabet which was a big surprise.

Great to see the Gorilla too.

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2 hours ago, Iain Emms said:

Great post Gerold.

cheers

Iain

Thank you Iain!

 

4 minutes ago, Hauer said:

Thanks for the wonderful tour, Gerold!  Very interesting and great images...

Herman :rolleyes:

And it was a long flight, Herman... Took me some hours, but nothing compared to the road trip.

 

3 hours ago, BradB said:

Heck of a post Gerold !! .

Thank you John!

 

7 hours ago, carlosqr said:

Very nice and interesting as usual Gerold

I specially liked lake Ossa

Cheers

Gracias Carlos. OpenLC has done so many improvements, even mesh and Vestor data seem improved. Just great.

 

5 hours ago, Captain Lars said:

Beautiful pics that show the superior quality of an OpenLC over other LC products. Your friend must have been extremely lucky to see a gorilla in the wild!

Danke Lars. As said just above, this OLC has improved so much. My friend has suffered a really hard tour to get there, but he even said he would do it again.

 

5 hours ago, VH-KDK said:

Fantastic set Gerold made even better with the RL images.

Sadly Nola is no different to so many places in the world.

Some great info too, I had to scurry over to Google the meaning of analphabet which was a big surprise.

Great to see the Gorilla too.

Thanks for your commen, Martyn. And sorry for confusing you with my uncommon English. If you follow some of the places and countries touched here in wikipedia, you will get lots of surprising information. I get tons of new knowledge through OLC Africa...

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21 minutes ago, Eberhard Haberkorn said:

Manometer stunning series, Gerold. Very informative too.

You´re cordially invited, Eberhard. Just learn French, hire a driver and get used to massive corruption.

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11 hours ago, schtroumf said:

Very nice series of screenshots:o

Thank you Olivier!

 

10 hours ago, adambar said:

Great post indeed, great job! :)

Thanks, Adam!

 

9 hours ago, TerribleT said:

Very enjoyable and informative as always - my notebook of places to see in OLC Africa is now on page 3 :D

Sorry TT. I would say "not my fault", but I would have to find more boring areas in OLC Africa :o:D...

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