I´ve been riding around Cameroon for over a month last year and totally loved the place !

Getting the visa in Calabar / Nigeria was pretty straightforward, money + photo was enough and I picked up my stamped passport the next day.

Depending police I only had a bad experience on the border ( Ekang ) where they demanded 50 Dollars to let me enter. Maybe timing couldn´t have been worse arriving one day before chrismas but I made it very clear to them that i´ve already payed at the embassy and they´ll get nothing from me. There was quit a bit of shouting involved on both sides, their point was "no money - no entering" so I picked up my guitar and sat down in his office, smoking cigaretts and jaming for 2 hrs until they got fed up with me. Even managed to get the immigration officer to make a photo of me and the border sign !

As somebody has already mentioned, you HAVE to carry your passport with you all the time 24/7 in Cameroon, its the law ! I just went to a police station with a photocopy of my visa + passport main page and for a little fee ( 1$ ) they stamped it and its a perfectly legal way to identify yourself at any control. They are very strict on this one, friends of mine from Douala also got arrested in the night because of not carrying a passport / legalised copy.

cheers,
Chris

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