We left SIL Cameroon about 11 AM by taxi with Juta (one of Dan's doctoral students who serves in Mali). The bus trip to the port city of Douala was fast and furious, as the photos show. It took about 4 hours and some places the driver was going 80-90 mph. This was the best photo I got of the trememdous traffic congestion in Yaounde. You can see cars turning around in the very middle of the pack-both directions! Amazing. Along the route were small communities that we had to slow down and sometimes pay toll so the locals surrounded vehicles and hawked their wares. Many logging trucks and motor cycles. It was an airconditioned bus and we sat in the front seats so got to enjoy everything, even the 3-part African soap opera in some other language! Juta accompanied us to Douala and we had dinner with her before we went on to the airport, all-in-all a fantastic experience.
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