Uncovering Touristic Sites in Kimbi-Fungom National Park, Periphery

Posted on June 13, 2017, by Voice of Nature

**Tourists having a boat ride at the Katsina River**

Besides the over 81 wildlife species distributed across its over 95,380 hectares, the Kimbi-Fungom National Park and its peripheries are obsessed with touristic sites unique in location, form, and structure.

There is the python cave in Gayama. Can you believe that there is a cave at the heart of a national park that as you get in, you see pythons freely everywhere? But watch out! Let one not be very hungry because you may be its prey.

Few meters from this cave is the Gayama twin hill protruding toward the sky like the breast of a 14-year girl. Then the triple river confluence at Kimbi that poses like an incredible ocean! This is a spectacular fishing camp with emblematic fish species that sooth secreted saliva of visiting tourists.

As you move a little towards Akum, you find the picturesque katsina waterfall and a gently flowing river beneath, navigable with boats and canoes from Cameroon and Nigeria. Here, you may want to get a feel of a boat ride. From this river, you just need to cross a little through Kwep towards the New Man Hill to have an amazing and thrilling view of the national park.

**100-meter German cable bridge established since the 1800s**

The most attractive of all these is the cable bridge at Nkang built by the Germans in the 1800s. Be one of the few to see this recently discovered cable bridge left behind by Germans in the North West Region of Cameroon; it’s about 60 to 100meters long crossing you over River Katsina through a very narrow but spectacular gorge.

Then you have the Hill Top View Point between Marshy and Nkang, which is more or less like a watchtower giving a real view of the Ndubu Ranch and Nigeria. All you need is a telescope and you will feed your eyes with all it desires. These are just a few thrilling sites you can find within the Kimbi-Fungom National Park, but there are even more sites of great aesthetics around the park.

We have the remains of Lake Nyos, which exploded in 1986 suffocating 1746 people, 3500 cattle and displacing 4430 persons besides other thrilling sites like the Dumbo Cattle Ranch, Lake Wum, the Caves around Fonfuka, the Misaje Shrine Forest alongside palaces with their historic artifacts collections and spectacular natural landscapes.

By Shancho Ndimuh