Cameroon Travel Guide

Take flights to Cameroon for Portuguese-infused Douala on the banks of the Wouri River, or former colonial outpost Yaoundè. Cameroon's passion for football reigns at Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium and for African art at Cameroon Art Museum. Fill a Cameroon holiday with elephant- and gorilla-spotting at south-eastern Lobéké National Park. Further west, African grey parrots flock to Campo-Ma'an National Park's evergreen forest. Book airline tickets to Cameroon to climb volcanic, 4040m-high Mount Cameroon, or see chimpanzees swing through Korup National Park, grazing the Nigerian border. Cameroon flights take travellers south to Kribi's palm-fringed sands on the Atlantic Coast and north to highland villages in the Mandara Mountains, where vultures wheel above rocky pinnacles. Travel to Cameroon's northern tip where Waza National Park teems with gazelle, giraffes and hippos.

Flights to Cameroon promise new culinary experiences. Try prunes in tomato sauce, fufu (mashed yam) and bitterleaf soup. Yaoundè serves world flavours and Douala has a scattering of French cafés and patisseries. After-dark action centres on Douala's waterfront bars and live music venues. KLM and partners have frequent flights to Cameroon. Book airline tickets to catch events from the spiritual underwater rituals of December's Ngondo Festival, Douala, to January/February's gruelling Mount Cameroon Race of Hope.