Cameroon

A dramatic highland landscape of volcanic plateaus, steep valleys and traditional Bamileke villages in northwest Cameroon, offering some of the country's most scenic highland terrain and rich cultural traditions of the Bamileke people.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site of over 5,000 square kilometres of pristine Congo Basin rainforest in southern Cameroon, protecting one of Africa's most intact forest ecosystems and populations of lowland gorilla, forest elephant and chimpanzee.

Cameroon's economic capital and largest city, a major port on the Wouri River estuary where it meets the Atlantic, handling the vast majority of the country's maritime trade and serving as the main gateway for business visitors.

Cameroon's primary beach resort on the Gulf of Guinea, where the Chutes de la Lobé waterfall plunges directly into the Atlantic Ocean across a wide rocky shelf — one of the few coastal waterfalls in the world.

West Africa's highest peak and most active volcano, rising abruptly from the Gulf of Guinea coast to 4,095 m, cloaked in lowland rainforest, afromontane forest and high-altitude moorland.

A 1,700-square-kilometre wildlife reserve in Cameroon's Extreme North, part of the Sahel savanna zone, famous for its elephant herds, giraffes, antelopes and the annual migration of the Kordofan giraffe.