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Cameroon, a country in Central Africa, bounded on the north by Lake Chad; on the east by the Central African Republic; on the south by the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea; and on the west by the Bight of Biafra (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean) and Nigeria. The country is shaped like an elongated triangle, and forms a bridge between West Africa and Central Africa. The country has a total area of 475,442 sq km (183,569 sq mi) with more than 250 ethnic groups spread through out its 10 Provinces, among which we have:
- The Coastal or Sawa Culture
Cameroon's coast stretches over close to 400km from Rio del Rey on the western border with Nigeria to Campo near the border with Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and is inhabited by such peoples as the Dualas, Bakweris, Bakokos and Batangas all of whom belong to the coastal Sawa Culture.

- The Bantu Cultural Sphere
Geographically, the region covering Cameroon's Centre, South and East provinces belongs to the Bantu cultural sphere. They are also referred to as "Forest Bantus" to better distinguish them from the other Bantu peoples who do not live in the forest region.
The group that stands out by virtue of their numerical strength is the Beti-Fang whose traditions abound with mythical narratives of their past migrations, tales, legends, epics and song-fables, all of which are performed against a backdrop of highly emotional epic music of high artistic standard.
This is the art of the mvet - a word designating both the musical instrument and the musical content of the instrument.
- The Grass fields Culture
The cultural sphere of the grass fields, covers the West and North-West provinces, and is highly noted for its "royal" Art which one discovers with much curiosity in the royal museums of, Bamungoum, Bafoussam, Bafut, Foumban, Bali, etc. other rear attractions in this area include the

bronze works of the Tikars, the paintings and bas-reliefs of the Bamouns, the sculpted thrones, animal totems, dance masks and other cultural artifacts of the Bamileke, Nso and Bali-nyonga peoples, as well as the works of art of the Fon of Babungo - a large traditional fondom where the Fon is himself an artist and craftsman.

- The Northern Culture
This area stretches from the Adamawa high plateau through the Benoué and Diamare plains, the Mandara mountains and other highland regions along the Cameroonian fault line, right up to Lake Chad. It is in the northern region that harbors most of the animal attractions, in the Waza National Park.


Special Attractions

Jungle and savanna safaris
Get to know the animal species of the wildlife that is found in parks like the WAZA National Park. Enjoy the instinctive gestures of elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, hippopotamuses, gorillas etc.

Seaside resort tourism
Cameroon, with a 400 km coastline that is open to the Atlantic, has a conducive terrain for resort tourism. We are looking at the natural sandy beaches of Kribi and Limbe, the mangroves as well as the falls that empty directly into the sea perfect sites, for relaxation and fanfare.
Cultural tourism
Cameroon is a mosaic of close to 250 tribes with different customs and traditions. You can equally experience the traditional architecture, handicrafts, taste the cuisines of the Cameroon people; the grass field culture, the Coastal or Sawa Culture, the Bantu Cultural Sphere and the Northern Culture. Cameroon also offers the rich historical monuments and vestiges from the triple German, British and French colonial masters and the opportunities for you to know their stories.
Altitude tourism
VENTA TOURS guides you through the chain of mountains lying in a suitable environment to the West. We are talking about the Mount Manengouba, the Dschang Climatic Centre, and the thermal springs in the Adamaoua Province.
Sports tourism
This constitutes and interesting aspect for lovers of sports. It involves golf courses in Yaoundé and Tiko, the annual Mount Cameroon race of hope which is organised every February.

Bird watching

Cameroon is probably the most accessible country in West-Central Africa and a top primary birding destination. Lying at the junction between West and Central Africa, Cameroon has a little of everything that Africa has to offer, from the southern tropical rainforests to the Sahelian region in the north, and from rolling plains to Cameroon Francolin, Important birds found were volcanic beaches and mangrove swamps, and is rich with more than 849 bird species, spread over a variety of sites among which we have the following:
Bafut - Nguemba "Forest Reserve"
This site has been almost completely destroyed, with the largest forest fragment recently cleared. Bannerman's Turaco is still present in the small forest patches around Lake Awing, and Banded Wattle-eye and Bannerman's Weaver in the few native trees and bushes along the stream before the lake.
Mount Cameroon
Mount Cameroon is the highest mountain in West Africa, rising more or less straight from the coast through tropical rainforest to a bare summit which is cold and windy and occasionally brushed with snow. It is not dormant and sent lava flowing down almost to the sea only last year. Although it is so close to the sea it can rarely be seen from the coast as clouds gather round its lower slopes and Debuncha at its southwest corner is reputed to be the second wettest place in the world.

There in can be found bird species such as Cameroon Speirops and Scrub-Warbler, Cameroon Mountain saw-wing and Cameroon Pigeon, Pipits, the Mount Cameroon Francolin, Cameroon–pigeon, White-tailed Warbler and the Cameroon Sunbird.
Korup National Park is Africa’s oldest and most diverse rainforest. Established in 1986, Korup National Park covers an area of 1,260 km² between Mundemba and Eyumojock in the South West Province of Cameroon. More than 620 species of trees and shrubs and at least 480 species of herbs and climbers have so far been recorded. Korup is the single richest lowland site in Africa for birds (more than 400 species), herpetofauna (82 reptiles and 92 amphibians) and butterflies (around 1,000 species). There are in addition 130 different species of fish and more than 160 mammals. Many of them are endangered and some are found nowhere else on earth.
Korup is renowned for its wide range of unusual and colourful primates including a number of rare and endangered species such as the drill, chimpanzee, red colobus monkey, red-capped mangabey and red eared monkey. A variety of small, shy antelopes known as duikers are common although they tend to be elusive. This park is home to the Grey-necked ROCKFOWL or PICATHARTES which attracts birders from all corners of the world. In this park could also be found birds like Forbe’s Plover, Black Dwarf, White-crested hornbills, Black-casqued, Yellow casqued, Red-billed Dwarf, Blue throated Roller, Blue Cuckoo-shrike, forest Robin, gray’s, Red-vented, Woodhouse Antpecker and Rachel’s malimbes. White-crested Tiger-Heron, Long-tailed Hawk, Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, both Dwarf-Hornbills (Red-billed being the commoner), White-crested Hornbill and Olivaceous Flycatcher
The Bénoué National Park is situated between the towns of Garoua, to the north, and Ngaoundéré to the south, and is the country's second best game reserve. A long stretch of the Bénoué river (over 100 km) forms the eastern boundary of the park, the main road linking Garoua and Ngaoundéré makes up part of the western boundary while a public road, to Tcholliré, crosses the northern part of the park. The park is largely surrounded by Hunting Reserves in an area, except along the main road, of low population density. Some large rocky massifs (especially Hosséré Gorna in the north) rise toaltitudes  of 600-750m above the undulating plain at 250-500 m. The vegetation includes several types of Sudanian woodland (from tall Isoberlinia-dominated and other woodland in the south-centre, to shorter, more open, mixed wooded grassland in the north), dry Anogeissus forest, semi-evergreen riparian forest and thickets along the Bénoué and its major effluents. The level of the sandy Bénoué River fluctuates much seasonally and exposed sandbars provide habitat for plovers and other water birds in the dry season. Some of these birds species include the Stone Partridge, Red-throated bee-eater, Violet Turaco, Adamawa Turtle dove, Red-winged Gray Warbler, Grey-headed olive-back, the remarkable Crocodile bird, etc.
The Benoué Park is also home to large mammals such as the hippopotamus. Further south at the Ngaoundaba ranch near Ngaoundéré, the highlights are Oriole Warbler, white-collared Starling, the Brown-chested Lap wig, thrush Babbler and the threatened Bamenda Apalis. The following birds too are to be seen : African Golden Oriole, White-breasted and Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrikes, Square-tailed Drongo, Schlegel’s francolin, Double-toothed Barbet, African Black Duck, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Red-headed Lovebird, Temminck’s Courser, Gray Kestrel, Sun Lark, Olive-bellied, Yellow-crowned Bishop, Marsh Widowbird, Gray-headed Olive back, , and many others.
Waza National Park is a national park in the Far North Province of Cameroon. This park was founded in 1934, as a hunting reserve, and later became a National Park in 1968, and a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 1979. The park covers a total of 1,700 km².It is managed by the Conservation Service of the Waza National Park, part of the Cameroon Ministry of Environment and the Protection of Nature. In this park we can find bird species like: Garganey , Red-necked Buzzard Great White Pelican, Fox Kestrel, Pallid Harrier, Sennar Penduline-tit Arabian Bustard, Savile's Bustard , Sudan Golden Sparrow Black Crowned-crane , Ostriches African Collared-dove , Pygmy sunbird Senegal Parrot, Red-throated Bee-eater , Herons Sahelian Woodpecker , weavers and queleas Piapiac , Fox Kestrel Sennar Penduline-tit , Kite Red-pate Cisticola , River Prinia , African Swallow-tailed Senegal Eremomela , Arabian bustard Purple Glossy-starling , swallow-tailed kite Chestnut-bellied Starling , Black Scrub-Robin Black Scrub-robin , bee-eaters Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver , Lavender Waxbill Sudan Golden Sparrow , Red-pate Cisticola Bush Petronia ,quail plover Black-rumped Waxbill , Chestnut-bellied Starling, doves, River Prinia,

Mount Kupé is less than 10 km east of the Bakossi Mountains (CM022) and 20 km south of Mont Manengouba (CM021). The massif is similar in size to Mont Nlonako (CM023) and rises to only a little higher (2,064 m). Apart from a couple of small grassy clearings on a rocky outcrop near the summit, the mountain was entirely clothed in forest from the foothills at c.300 m. All sides have been gradually encroached upon by cultivation, up to 1,500 m on the eastern slopes and up to 750-1,100 m on the western and northern sides, near the villages of Mbule and Nyasoso. The better-preserved section includes primary mid-altitude and montane rainforest on the slopes above Nyasoso. This mountain harbours birds like the Congo Serpent-eagle , Chestnut-flanked Sparrow hawk, Red-thighed Sparrow hawk, Cassin's Hawk-eagle, Woodhouse's Antpecker,
Cameroon Sunbird, African Forest Flycatcher, Mountain Robin-chat, Grey-chested Babbler, Yellow Longbill, White-tailed , Grey Longbill, Cameroon Olive-pigeon, Grey Parrot, Guinea Turaco, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher and many more.
Eco-tourism
Eco-tourism is undertaken in protected sites and areas such as the KORUP national park which harbours plant species which are many million years old, the DJA reserve, a global heritage of mankind, Mt Cameroon with its very rare flora and the fossil sites of Mayo-Rey.
Business tourism

The political stability of Cameroon in the Central and West African regions has made it a tranquil ground for international conferences, seminars and business forums. The quality of reception and intake facilities (international airports, Conference Centres, world-class hotels), in Yaoundé and Douala make it possible every year to host congresses and conferences attended by businessmen and officials from the four corners of the earth.

 

 
 

   
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