Maroua Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Flights are available three or four times a week with Camaroon Airlines (229 2019) to Yaoundé and Douala (both around CFA89, 500), sometimes via Garoua. The airport is 20km south of town along the Garoua road (CFA3000 in a chartered taxi, if you can find one).

Touristique Express has several daily buses to Garoua (CFA2500, 2½ hours) and N’Gaoundéré (CFA6000, eight hours). You can also book tickets for the N’Gaoundéré–Yaoundé train here at the same time. Several other agencies operate along the N’Gaoundéré route, with depots on the same road; Star Express in the town centre is also good.

Plentiful transport to Mokolo (CFA1000, 1½ hours) and less frequently to Rhumsiki (CFA2000, around three hours) departs from Carrefour Parrah in Djarangol at the southern end of town.

Transport to Kousséri for the Chad border (CFA3500, five hours) departs from the gare routière on Maroua’s eastern edge. Minibuses to Banki for the Nigerian border (CFA2000, two hours) also depart from here.