CAMEROON 🇨🇲 DAY 278 398km Country # 77

GEMBU NIGERIA 🇳🇬 TO YOKO CAMEROON 🇨🇲   11.5 hrs.  4-2-25

Was a fun ride out of Nigeria, all dirt tracks up and down some short passes, through villages in the mountains, really a nice change and had a river crossing in a piroque.

Used by the locals to transport goods to Cameroon on their Chinese bikes and some old Land Rovers thermite. route. Nice change of scenery with mountains and hills turning into green jungles with beautiful massive trees.

Chris and I got seperated afyer about 30kms and I gathered he didn't want to follow me so I continued on. The road ended and it became a single track for 20kms and then in the mountains I crossed the border. The guy looked at my passport and had no stamp and I continued on down a pass to the Cameroon Immigration where they looked at my visa and also had no entry stamp for me which could be a problem down the road. Quickest border yet. Took three and a half hours to do that 55 kms. However I made a bad choice by going down a short steep section where the Land Rovers go down instead of where all the motos go down. The bike got out of control and I managed to save the day miracuously, cause it would have been a nasty wipe out, but I did catch my left foot on the embankment and it twisted the ankle again. Got to the bottom and had to rest up and wait for the pain to subside but was thrilled that I did not take a spill.

    NIGERIAN BORDER. The guy there came front Gembu with 320L of fuel on the same road I did and left and hour afyer me and we arrived at the same time. With that weight on the back, hard to believe.

    CAMEROON🇨🇲 BORDER POST.

Continued on to Banyou where I went to the police for a stamp but no luck but did get a free Passavant but have no insurance since leaving Benin. 

The next 151 kms took three hours and a decent red dirt road where you could maintain your speed of about 40 kmph so was a pleasant ride through the jungle like vegetation. Only passed nine vehicles on this section and the roads are in good shape because there is no traffic and no huge trucks. 

Got to Tibati and had another 190kms to Yoko and it was 4pm so I made a dash for it and turns out it is a beautiful asphalt newly built road without a blemish and painted lines so you could go as fast as like. No vehicles on the road may have passed seven, so kept it at 100kmph and arrived as the sun was fading away, an eleven and a half hour day and a crappy hotel but they did have cold beer and chicken and rice which was all I had to eat the entire day.