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Today, I made a long drive on my own in the hills of the West province. I went up to Bafang, 240km north-west of Douala, said to be the entrance of the Bamileke area. The city is 1100m high and has a nice Christian church on its main hill I'll probably try to present you.

I drove through many large villages and town. I couldn't imagine that there could be so many inhabitants along that road. I guess I never felf alone on this busy road.

The road was quite nice and in rather good conditions probably better that the average road in Douala itself. I drove through many banana plantations, through Penja, a city well-known in the country for its pepper. The landscape was incredibly green.

On the way back, I made a stop at Nkongsamba, 50km before Bafang to get some pictures of the nice city and landscape. As I just heard that today was "Aïd el-Fitr" celebrating the end of the Ramadan, I was attracted by a mosquee in the lanscape. Even if most people are Christian in Cameroon (40%), there is a large Muslim community (20%) introduced in the country in 1715, especially in this very West area of Cameroon.

The road back to Douala was a real pain since I was caught in a great storm. As a guy from Brittany quite used to long rain, I can swear the greatest rain I met are from Cameroon. What a hell ! Luckily, since the hot season is coming, those rains do not last too long now and after two hours, I could see new rays of light. I wish I could stop more often to catch nice light over the banana plantations but I felt I had to come back to Douala before sunset to avoid being trapped in the suburbs and get lost.