Tourhistory in the place of memory at the slave trade port of Bimbia, Limbe in the South West Region of Cameroon

This tour will take us to the slave trade village Bimbia, an emerging and flourishing ecotourism site on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, near the city of Limbe. Bimbia still bears traces of the slave trade, such as the buildings in which slaves were kept, padlocks, chains and many other utensils used by the slave masters. You will discover a vast ecotourism heritage such as the first Baptist church in Cameroon, founded in 1843 by Joseph Merrick, the Alfred Saker monument, before joining the slaves’ quarters where you will discover the first and the second “doors of no return”, the oil mill where the slave labour was used to produce palm oil for shipping abroad and the tattooing room where the slaves were marked according to the marks of their buyers. You will also discover the Nichols’ Island, an island from which nearly 166 slave ships left Bimbia for foreign destinations.

If you visit Cameroon in the dry season, you can get closer to the sea and take pictures near the German Canons located along the coastline and pointing to the Nichols’ Island where the stubbornness slaves were kept.  The visit of this ecotourism site of memory will end with the uncover of the nature trail, a real intact virgin forest with a variety of medicinal plants and fruit trees. The villages of Bakingili, Debunsha (with one of the highest rainfall in Africa and the world), and Idenau will also be at the rendezvous. You shall also Hike the small Mount Cameroon, also known as “Mount-Bakingili”, created by the lava flows accumulated during the 1999 Mount Cameroon eruption. We will then discover Lake Nachtigal and visit the fishermen’s villages along the Idenau beaches.