Rhumsiki

Rhumsiki is a village in Northern Cameroon renown for its lunar landscape.

Understand

Rhumsiki Peak

The Rhumsiki landscape

Rhumsiki is one of Cameroon's most popular tourist attractions. The main attraction is the surrounding scenery. Writer and explorer André Gide wrote that Rhumsiki's surroundings are "one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world." The spectacular effect is created by surrounding volcanic plugs (the remnants of long-dormant volcanoes), basalt outcroppings, and the Mandara Mountains.

Rhumsiki has adapted to the flow of tourists – enough now that some feel it has become a bit of a tourist trap. Children in the village act as tour guides, showing visitors several pre-arranged attractions. Among these are craftspeople, such as blacksmiths, potters, spinners, and weavers; native dancers; and the féticheur, a fortune-teller who predicts the future based on a crab's manipulation of pieces of wood.

Do

A village hut

• Tour the village
• Get your fortune told by the féticheur
• Admire the view It's breaktaking

Stay safe

Because of the risk of attacks by terrorist groups, as of 2023, many governments recommend avoiding all travel to northern Cameroon. See the warning at Cameroon.

Go next

• Maroua The regional capital