Alicia Ortego
Magic cateracts
The road between Bamenda and Foumban (the biggest African craft center) requires going over part of the road-by-road, to Bafousam. We found Metchie Falls or metche, a waterfall that is modest in length but amazing!. The road runs almost above it. There is a sign indicating that it is there, and after stopping we take a path through the vegetation but carefully, with steps and banister made of logs. As you go down the road, which also makes a curve, you hear what goes deeper than roaring cataracts, and that somehow gets you in and surprised. Off the road, before the view of the falls, we see a tree whose base is dotted with paint or some type of paste, red, yellow and white.
Some of the rocks that make wall beside the stairs continue down to the waterfall-and visible-also are stained. They are part of the offerings of a witch in the zone makes this waterfall. Here comes to harness energy from the water, and you can not step on or touch any of this, because it would be a sacrilege, contamination, and work of man. Incidentally, these falls are also known because many Bamileke independence fighters were killed and thrown into the river during the wars of maquis that were decades ago. For me, one of the most spectacular places I could visit in Cameroon (with apologies to Rumsiki). The waters of the mud-brown tone that drag being rainy season, show a brave and impressive strength, and mesmerizing, like fire ... a magic place :).
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