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My trip to Cameroon comparison

During our trip, we have often drawn comparisons because much different, although some appeared similar. Cameroon is divided into two parts: the main part of the East speaks French, while the smaller western part as part of the former British colony, "The Western Cameroon" English says. The French colonial rule has brought one for us very clear advantage over Nigeria: the bakeries. On the journey we have enjoyed some of the products that we have missed in Nigeria, where there is almost no bakery, and only a kind of white bread. Baguettes and croissants are sold here in almost every city.
The long political stability has allowed the country a little Tourism building, so we see surprisingly many whites, even families with children could. Many cities and natural attractions are developed for tourism, which has facilitated our trip a bit. Despite the political stability of the economy seems likely to go back, which is supposedly at a similar rate of corruption, as in Nigeria. There are as well as electricity and water problems that have kept themselves in our experience is very limited. We were happy to have electricity 24 hours and not hear the annoying noise generator at night usually. This is called the way of power cuts, while they say in Nigeria: Yesterday I had three, four or five hours Nepa. (So the power after the former Nigerian energy producers called.)
Nigeria seems but often viewed as a strong country, comparable to what the Cameroonians.
What surprised me was that my tradition is still less noticed than in Nigeria. I often thought that Nigeria, especially by the oil extreme of "the West" or "global North" (whatever you put the politically correct) was affected and why the traditions were receded so much. In Cameroon, however I have never once heard an African language, and the original food did not seem as likely to be eaten, as in Lagos. Even in Lagos, which so strongly shaped is from the western culture, we hear at every street corner, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa or any of the original languages of Nigeria.
The cities and streets seemed clean, although I have often heard that many streets in a catastrophic condition and in the rainy season were not passable. The urban atmosphere has us all still very much, especially in Yaoundé, where there were parks, wide roads and greenery.

Both countries seem to be so similar, and above all my experiences in Nigeria, I would have referred to both countries as equal, but if you know Nigeria, we see many small differences that our have made travel an interesting experience.

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III: The Muslim northern Nigeria, Cameroon

The scenic northern Cameroon seemed similar, but culturally different. In Maroua, one of the northernmost towns of Cameroon, was sold alcohol despite prevailing Islam and scarves were a rarity. The map on the big river was recorded completely dry. In addition, we meet very soon jumped the tourist expression of Cameroon, because in contrast to Nigeria, Cameroon, with its political stability is a holiday destination. We saw many white people and even families who made this holiday. In a quite cheap hotel we stayed two nights in Maroua, Cameroon, from where we crossed the south. Next we traveled by bus to N'Gaoundéré from where we took a train to the capital Yaounde. We hoped, in the evening arrived in N'Gaoundéré to get a ticket immediately, but tickets will be sold tomorrow. A procedure that we had to do to the next morning. It was a scramble and shoving, I have seen it in adults, not so. Since we do not raise the money for the first class sleeping car and wanted, we had to crowd into to us to get hold of two tickets. To the exit we were able to look at the city, which was unusually cold in the morning, so I have a little froze what an indescribable feeling is here in West Africa. We enjoyed the consumer goods that do not exist in Nigeria tested, from our French and made our first experience with a bakery, which is also in Nigeria, where we admired French bread, croissants and other goodies and have eaten enough. The train journey overnight took a long time. It was very tight and you could sleep best on the floor under the seats, which I then chose, as I took my seat on no sleep. Yaoundé impressed us, it seemed much of Western, peaceful and green, as Lagos. In Lagos, there are even huge shopping malls, western skyscrapers and residences for the rich, but here things are much more distributed, more integrated into the city and not so isolated in Lagos. We also do not have these huge "Housing Estates" - walled, guarded Noble District - discovered. We made acquaintance with an American who teaches at the American school and offered us accommodation in his apartment. He also gave us the tip, and later to go after an anxious and showed us some corners of Yaoundé. There we also went to the Goethe-Institut and later made the acquaintance of the DED (German Development Service) which also covers the Weltwärts program. We got a few phone numbers of other volunteers in Cameroon, which we visited during our trip. After Yaoundé we went to Bang in the English East, where we known Tom, the Americans arrived, that showed us a waterfall and two volcanic lakes, where we could swim. The lakes were quite impressive. After two days we went on to Buea, the former colonial capital of the Germans, to the foot of Mount Cameroon, with 4095m the highest mountain in West and Central Africa. We met volunteers who are prepared for the planned ascent. The next day we booked the expensive rise to international recognition of Mt Cameroon Ecotourism Organization and began at noon, after we had bought food and rain jackets. Through the mountain rain forest, the trail went up, but we were surprised by a heavy rain, soaking all of our things and forced us in the first hut to stay. There we froze mad and warmed us and dried (or smoked) our clothes at a fire in the hut. We had to stay there and had to reach by the time lost no chance of the summit in a day and wander back down. to rent one more day, the guides and the support we could not afford, so we hiked the next day only to the tree line to the subsequent mountain savannah to see. From there we got back from frustrated. The next and last town in Cameroon, which we visited was Limbe where we could enjoy the last time the consumer in a bakery, visited the botanical garden and beach bathing. The beach is of black volcanic sand, because the two mountains, Mt Cameroon and Mt Etinde as the island of Equatorial Guinea on the coast of Cameroon by volcanic activities have emerged.
From Limbe, we took a small, fairly demolished overnight ferry to Calabar in Nigeria, from where we returned by bus to Lagos.

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As most of the West African coastal countries, Nigeria is divided into two religious: During the mainly ethnic Yoruba and Ibo Christian populated south, was a missionary, spreading to the north by the Trans-Saharan trade from Arabia, Islam. For example, today 13 states have adopted since 2000 as the Sharia legal system. Populated the north of the mainly Hausa and the Fulani, a partially mixed to form a national group "Hausa-Fulani" have, and the Kanuri in the north-eastern state of Borno. Hausa is the most important non-colonial African languages and is spoken not only by the spread in West Africa, Hausa, but in the northern parts of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast used as a trade language. It is strongly influenced by Arabic, which is reflected in the debate. The Hausa are the largest ethnic group in Nigeria.
The north contains the second largest city in Nigeria, while the oldest city in West Africa: Kano. This city was with one of the most important towns in Sokoto trans-Saharan trade. Sokoto was the capital of the caliphate and is still a religious center of Islam.
In Yorubagebiet where I live, I often hear that the North is ignorant and poor is why many Hausas came to the South and especially to Lagos, where they can get simple and low-paid work as a shoemaker, street cooking, Okada riders or money changer . Since the majority of the operators of Suya-Grill (Suya is grilled meat) comes from the north and thus Muslim, I was told once that I should not buy Suya, because poison the Hausa it for Christians. And even my Boss, who has lived 22 years in the United Kingdom, said that come from a bad stomach upset me by poisoned Suya. These prejudices have not just to unify the country, which suffers so already under severe conflicts between Muslims and Christians, which is seen on the riots in Jos, was in the middle of Nigeria and therefore in the border region between Muslims and Christians, is located.
I myself have been visiting a mosque in Lagos have noticed the huge cultural difference between the two religion-dominated parts of Nigeria. On my trip north was confirmed then my picture. Both scenic and culturally very different in Nigeria. The people came to me quietly, often more respectful, not so much on consumption and money secured and balanced before. You called us not Oyinbo or the Hausa equivalent "Batauri" behind preconceived, we will not start and did not try to convince us of their religion. On the other hand, I can not take the people of Lagos as a multicultural metropolis and demoralized by the money as a perfect example of Yoruba.
The clothing is different even in the colors. In the north, the men wear plain, long robes, consisting partly of bright fabrics, while suits are worn in the south of colorful, multi-colored and patterned fabrics. The women mostly wear headscarves in the north.
to travel to the north was a good decision perceive the cultural diversity of Nigeria to.