Day 157: Mayo Ndaga (Nigeria) – Banyo (Kamerun)

Wonderful, a cool night in silence. If it weren't for our own cough... What have we caught?

For breakfast there is an avocado straight from the tree. Yes, there is such a thing!

We “only” have around 65 km to go today. From the military station to the border the slope is not good but not bad either. Then stamp out the car (he asks for a gift, but he would never ask for money because that's a punishable offense), check for yellow fever vaccination (actually doesn't make sense when you leave the country), stamp out your passport (be careful not to mix up the stamps!). That was the Nigerian side. Everything is pretty minimalistic :-) 

Then a brutal piece of road, if you can even call it a road anymore. Btw: We meet some of the famous 6-wheeled Pinzgauers. Of course it’s easy for them.

Then get stamped in the car on the Cameroon side. Very quick and uncomplicated.

Then the police, but they don't want anything from us.

Then immigration – there we only show the visa printout, nobody wants to see the ID and there is no entry stamp either – supposedly the border is not even open. What gray area are we moving in? But we know from others that it works this way.

And then it continues unfortunately like yesterday. Slow, laborious and gradually tiring. And dark clouds on the horizon – just no rain now, which would turn the fine clay dust into a mud slide.

We arrive in Banyo at around 5:00 p.m. after an eight-hour drive. Done. In every sense. 

Change money (rest of Naira and a few dollars in Cameroon CFA) and get SIM card. Everything works well. 

There is one last room for us in the Dream City Hotel (it is the weekend) – unfortunately it cannot be locked. But somehow that will work too.

We are dusty, tired, hungry and somehow proud. Wolle managed to drive coolly over the two days with the support of Becky and Brigitte :-) 

First of all we need a shower. We'll postpone everything else until tomorrow.