A trip to the Nigerian Peoples Clinic, I was prepared for general anaesthetic - "to co-operate" - and a few minutes later was coming around under the watchful eye of a nurse who kept saying "Sorry hey"!
Martin writes... Crossing the border was very easy. On the Nigerian side,
we were questioned by Immigration with questions ranging from what we
thought of Nigeria, how we found the people and why we did not the 'Cattle
Farm'. We did not go there after hearing it
was Nigeria's biggest tourist attraction.
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We had feared that the rainy season would damper our attempts to get
across Cameroon... so when it poured with rain on our first day, and Ben
got stuck in the mud, we realized that our fears of the rainy season were
justified.
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The road from the border (Otu) to Mamfe was only 60km long but it took us 5 hours to cover the distance. We eventually arrived at a valley where 5 cars had come to a halt in the mud. Ben attempted to bypass the one car stuck at the bottom of the hill ... only to land up in a ditch. It took seven locals from the nearby village, plus a few quid, to pull the Range Rover out the mud and change the tyre (which had come off the rim).
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) Ben & Chris stuck |
