that ladies and gentlemen that is
Cameroon Cameroon is Cameroon is also
known as small Africa you have plenty of
ethnic groups here they speak two main
languages here in Africa French and
English and you have mountains you have
the rain forest you have deserts you
have simply everything it's small Africa
but maybe that's why they're on the
verge of a civil war and maybe that's
why I'm brushing my teeth on a small
cargo ship that took me from Nigeria to
Cameroon I'm near a small city called
eco where English speaking separatists
killed a police officer yesterday and
there were also gunshots in this little
town this morning it's a pretty shitty
situation we begin in the northwest of
Cameroon it'll be easier if I draw this
we came to Cameroon on a small cargo
ship from Nigeria the journey took 24
hours 16 of which we spent sleeping
after taking a strong Pakistani drug for
seasickness we landed in a small Harbor
town of Tico our plan was to leave Tico
immediately and head to the nearby city
of bouya because we plans to climb the
highest mountain of Central Africa Mount
Cameroon from there and now some
important information Cameroon is
divided into a francophone part that is
safe and an Anglophone part which is
blessing its northern parts where rebels
are kidnapping and killing people and
terrorizing cities are extremely
dangerous we are in Mount Cameroon
however were safe they were far away
from the calm
the situation deteriorated literally a
few hours before our arrival the armed
rebels arrived - booyah we had no clue
about that so it took us by surprise
when the police dragged us from the
poor's to their station it's not as good
as we expected we were being taken to
the police station they told us that
it's not safe to be here it's not safe
to go - booyah
we knew there were some issues in the
northern parts of Cameroon far as we
knew it was far away from us it was like
150 kilometers from us but they told us
it's also here there are like
kidnappings on daily basis there are
murders here on daily basis and they are
seriously considering taking us back to
Nigeria which we really hope will not
happen right now we're waiting for the
chief of the police station to finish
his breakfast he went to town to get
some something for breakfast and it's
been two hours right now the chief told
us we had to return to Nigeria as one
officer was driving us back to the port
he received a report that the rebels had
arrived to tico a mass shooting was
taking place just a few hundred meters
away from us and I had never been more
scared of dying than at that moment
hiding in a vaccine we prayed the rebels
wouldn't notice a police car with two
white passengers
this is uh probably the first time I'm
going to be very very serious
on these travel videos we've had some
difficulties I've had a very serious
malaria we've had some very serious food
poisonings and there were very tough
situations that we experienced but this
one is particularly bad we got very very
scared and we got back to the port which
is allegedly a very safe place because
it's inside this military zone there are
like two checkpoints that you need to
pass before entering the port so we are
here there are just a few members of the
crew that took us here the captain is
not here we don't know where the captain
is the police officer told us to wait
and went back to Tico probably to do
something with the with the attack and
we're staying here I just hope this will
have a happy end because this is
probably the most dangerous situation
I've ever experienced during my travels
there's basically a a military attack
with gun shots like few minutes away
from us like in the same city in the
same town I don't know what will happen
but I'll update you hopefully if I stay
alive and so we got stuck on a ship that
was supposed to get us back to Nigeria
the next day two kilometers from the
raging conflict alone with only two crew
members so
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every day field
when you feel the ship was rundown and
according to the strange alphabet
everywhere made long ago in Greece
however it belonged to the Equatorial
Guinea Navy the only spanish-speaking
country in Africa after a detailed
inspection of the ship it was finally
time to freshen up I smell like shit I
didn't take shower for two days and the
waters running allegedly so I'm gonna
take a shower finally this is the only
working shower on this ship and I
witnessed people vomiting there I
witnessed people shitting there I also
said I took shower in many places that
this has to be the most disgusting one
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this is a shower
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it smells like egg
fresh feel like a bit of ammonia in the
air
perfect alright let's check out Teresa
in the kitchen yes she's cooking the
lunch or I mean dinner or something in
between I don't know they said we would
eat just once today so I think it's
something in between lunch and dinner
probably
smells really delicious there let's have
a look
so one we're gonna have we're having a
tomato sauce with grilled fish rice Wow
MasterChef ship edition cargo ship
edition would you like to see the
purchase I didn't want to know that
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you see that that is Mount Cameroon
we're not going there really sad it was
supposed to be the highlight of our
Cameroonian trip but we cannot do it for
safety reasons the mythical Mount
Cameroon
it's 9:00 p.m. welcome to our small
cabin as you can see I managed to put
the mosquito net on the top of our beds
it's not perfect but it will work there
are some advantages and some
disadvantages of this small room we
spotted a lot of cockroaches not only on
the floor but also on the beds I also
think there are malaria mosquitos here
and as you can see that the nets are not
perfect but let's hope they they won't
bite not only the mosquitos but also the
cockroaches on the other hand though we
have a fully functional AC here which
makes the stay in our room very pleasant
there's also a military tent near our
boat and we went there to speak to the
soldiers they said something very nice
to us very it calmed us down
they said the situation has calmed down
we may be able to go to Dwolla
tomorrow so our salvation was called
Dwolla the largest city of Cameroon
located in the safe french-speaking part
we forgot about Mount Cameroon and
focused only on the three million Douala
turned out it would be more complicated
than we had anticipated
good morning it's 9:00 a.m. which
reminds me I need to get the anti
malaria so I also got something for
breakfast but this this is the most
important thing anti malaria and you got
to take them every 24 hours it is
crucial that the time between the doses
is exactly 24 hours we take them every
single day at 9:30 a.m. and not only
antimalarials are crucial but also the
antibacterial gel which I use pretty
often because I experienced some really
heavy shit literally heavy shit we're
having a
romantic breakfast on the top of the
ship by the way there's a solitary
cabbage on the other table right there
that's been standing there for like two
days and it's like half rotten right now
so lonely
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Monday is completely different from
Sunday here the goods are being taken
from the ship to the trucks there a lot
of salesmen it's it's very busy here
also the immigration office is open so I
hope they will return the passports to
us
and let us go to do a lock we're going
to the immigration of us right now again
not with a camera but only with my phone
because it's illegal to film anything
related to police or immigration
officers are you get the idea right at
the immigration office they refuse to
return our passports and let us go to
Cameroon despite the calm situation they
did not believe we suddenly wanted to go
to Dwolla
and they wanted to send us back to
Nigeria at any price but we didn't want
to go to Nigeria and so from the phones
of random people we reached out to
embassies all around the world the
immigration office didn't understand our
point and ignored us finally one hour
before the departure of the ship to
Nigeria the Czech Embassy got involved
called the police commanders in Dwolla
booyah and Tico and send us a car three
absurd hours at the Tico police station
followed until the cops finally let us
leave and we got into the car to Douala
at 11 p.m. the driver told us there
still might be rebels on the Anglophone
part of the road and I almost got
another heart attack
was never scared because of security
reasons until today my heart's beating
really fast and I just
these 25 kilometers will be gone soon
after 50 minutes of horror however we
finally found ourselves in the
francophone part and it did not take
long before the long-desired Dwolla
emerge in front of us
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