Scam / but Beautiful.
It’s a PUBLIC place.
Which means they can not ask money for this.
A big scam is going on,
Typical guinnee I guess.
the locals will try to scam you for money.
The scam goes up to 200.000 xaf and the “guides” will try aggressively to get money out of your pockets.
They will say it’s obligatory to pay to enter , the “guide/scammer” said it’s 200k xaf to enter per person.
Then they lower the price.
They say it’s necessary to have a guide blah blah blah.
“The reason they ask money” ;
the money is used for the community, (wich is like 5%) and the rest goes to the 3 guys sitting there.
You don’t have to pay since it’s public , they put a rope on the road so you have to stop.
You can just drive through or by the side of the road.
I did not pay.they just started laughing.
Sad that so many people go along with these scams and pay up.
It’s toxic and ruins all these places.
The money doesn’t get divided well and so i can not (with good intentions) donate money.
I did however buy papayas from the people in the village.
If you want to give money away, make sure it goes to the people and not to those “guides”.
Honestly you don’t need a guide for this.
Tip to avoid this shituation;
What you want to do is come from the north side , stop on the last place before you have to cross the big river , and from there go by foot down the waterfall.
If you get to the other side of the road you walk up like 5-10 minutes (steep) untill you see a wider road, there you go into the bush (little path) and you will arrive to a cliff with the spectacular view over the whole waterfall.
With a normal car it’s possible if you don’t plan on crossing the river.
I did it with a RWD van with limited slip differential on the back.
Crossed the river/waterfall and drove up...
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