{"id":476,"date":"2005-12-29T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T16:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/?p=476"},"modified":"2006-08-22T21:34:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T21:34:45","slug":"mount-cameroon-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/12\/29\/mount-cameroon-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Cameroon &#8211; Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early start for the final day, a breakfast of Indomie, tea and hot chocolate and then off through more grassland, over low ridges, looking down on the clouds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/PortersInTheGrassland_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/PortersInTheGrassland_t.jpg\" alt=\"Line of porters walking across grassland\" title=\"Porters in the grassland\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GrasslandForestCloud_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GrasslandForestCloud_t.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down across grassland to the forest and clouds\" title=\"Grassland, forest and cloud\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GrassCoveredLavaFlows_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GrassCoveredLavaFlows_t.jpg\" alt=\"Old lava flows covered in grass\" title=\"Grass-covered lava flows\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThen we were back among the trees, walking through different types of forest, surrounded by ferns, strangling figs and huge trees.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/PathThroughForestDay4_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/PathThroughForestDay4_t.jpg\" alt=\"Path leading through forest\" title=\"Path through forest\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/TreeFerns_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/TreeFerns_t.jpg\" alt=\"Looking up at a canopy of tree ferns\" title=\"Tree ferns\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/TreeArch_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/TreeArch_t.jpg\" alt=\"A natural arch of trees\" title=\"Tree arch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was pretty slippery underfoot and people were getting tired.  Indar had decided that the too-small shoes were damaging his feet too much so he hiked down in a pair of flip-flops.  In the early afternoon we reached Bokwango village, the end of our walk.  After some group photos most of the group returned to Limbe in taxis, Pete, Chantal, Charles and I went to the MountCEO office where we were hugged by the ladies there and filled in an evaluation form.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GroupInBokwango_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GroupInBokwango_t.jpg\" alt=\"Large group in front of a roadside shack and church\" title=\"Group in Bokwango village\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/MountCEOOfficeLadies_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/MountCEOOfficeLadies_t.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in an office\" title=\"Mount Cameroon Ecotourism office ladies\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture shows roughly the route we took on Mount Cameroon, my GPS was off most of the time so we actually took much less direct routes between points.  In total we walked over 31km, climbing 3065 m and descending 3195 m.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/MountCameroon.jpg\" alt=\"3D satellite map showing our route\" title=\"Mount Cameroon route\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once I was back at the hotel I had a hot shower to wash off the accumulated grime, sealed up my clothes in a plastic bag to deal with back in Abuja and headed to the restaurant for dinner, beers and brandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early start for the final day, a breakfast of Indomie, tea and hot chocolate and then off through more grassland, over low ridges, looking down on the clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameroon","category-friends","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}