Yaoundé's Seven Hills: Mont Fébé & City of Hills Views
Yaoundé is the 'City of Seven Hills' — built across forested ridges and valleys, its best views come from Mont Fébé, the Benedictine monastery, and the hilltop cathedral
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Mont Fébé panoramic view
The highest hill in Yaoundé offers a 360-degree view of the city — red-roofed houses, green forest corridors and equatorial skies stretching to the horizon
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Benedictine monastery of Mont Fébé
The Benedictine monks who founded this hilltop monastery in the 1930s also brought the first winemaking to Cameroon – the monastery still operates a working brewery
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Victoires
The Catholic cathedral with two towers on a hill dominates the Yaoundé skyline – built in 1953, its bell towers offer a rare view of the seven hills from the inside
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Lac Municipal Walking Trail
The man-made lake in downtown Yaoundé is surrounded by a walkway popular with Yaoundé's morning joggers and families on Sunday afternoons
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Melen Market Hilltop
The sprawling neighborhood market of Melen climbs a hillside with fruit vendors, butchers and tailors at all levels - a cross-section of Yaoundé's daily commerce
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University campus forest
University of Yaoundé The campus retains patches of original equatorial forests — giant iroko trees shade the lecture halls and monkeys occasionally appear at lunchtime