Travel: In this green and pleasant land; Home to Africa's most verdant botanic garden, Cameroon is a rain- drenched wilderness that boasts 3,000 plant species (and a famously eccentric football team, too).(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: May 12, 2001| Author: Nurden, Robert | Copyright information

Mount Cameroon, at 4,095 metres, is so high that planes have to turn left and make a wide sweep around the summit before coming into land at Douala airport. As we dropped down to the Atlantic and the Cameroon coast, a pale yellow sun just had time to pick out the spooky shape of the summit before clouds and dusk raced in to cover its African modesty.

It was the only time in a week that Central Africa's highest peak peeped through the banks of billowing grey cloud that gi...

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