Bamenda
Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region.
Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region. The city has a population of about six hundred thousand people and is located 366 km (227 mi) north-west of the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé. Bamenda is known for its cool climate and scenic hilly location.
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Worth seeing in and around Bamenda
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Bamenda
The University of Bamenda is an Anglophone university in Bamenda, NorthWestern Cameroon.
4 km · university in Cameroon · Wikipedia - 02Royal Museum of Mankon
The Mankon Museum is an art and cultural museum located in Mankon-Bamenda, Cameroon. The museum was inaugurated in 2006, and is situated at the entrance to the Mankon Palace.
7.1 km · museum in Cameroon · Wikipedia - 03Catholic University of Cameroon
The Catholic University of Cameroon, or in Latin is a private university located in Bamenda in the North West region of the Republic of Cameroon. It is the Provincial University of the Catholic Church in the Anglophone part of Cameroon and the only Catholic Institution of Higher Education founded by the Anglophone Catholic Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda.
1.4 km · university in Cameroon · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Mankon Museum
Art and cultural museum describing the rich history of the Mankon fondom, a traditional kingdom.
- 02Nkwen Fon's Palace
A new cultural heritage museum and venue space.
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Things to do
A popular itinerary is to do the "Bamenda Ring Road" that involves traveling north to see the Bafut Palace in Bafut followed by the Menchum Waterfalls near Wum, then taking in the volcanically active Lake Nyos where many died in a gaseous release in 1987 and on to the Kings Palace in Misaje.
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Where to eat
- 01New Century Restaurant
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Getting to Bamenda
- Airports
- Douala (DLA), 223 km · Akanu Ibiam (ENU), 292 km · Malabo (SSG), 293 km
- Stations
- Bamenda Airport, 9.2 km
- Douala → Bamenda218 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · $23–32
- Yaoundé → Bamenda278 km · quickest by road, 5h 47m · $30–41
- Garoua → Bamenda516 km · quickest by road, 16h 51m · $70–95
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bamenda
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bamenda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is an airport in Bamenda servicing charter flights but no daily scheduled flights.
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