CMR to host 'Le Beau Velo Lap de RAVel' 2014

'Le Beau Velo Lap de RAVel' event, to hold from 8-16 October, 2014, will bring together over 40 cyclists from Belgium.

Cameroon has been chosen to host the 2014 overseas lap of the highly coveted touristic discover-the-world-and-its people yearly rendezvous by bicycle code-named “Le Beau Vélo de RAVel (the Beautiful Bike of the Autonomous Network of Slow Transport Ways).” The annual summer touristic discovery will hold from October 8-16 2014.

According to information from Cameroon’s embassy in Brussels, the delegation from the Kingdom of Belgium, comprising 40 winners, guides, artists and journalists leaves Brussels on October 8.

“Special guests that are participating in the programme and are scheduled to travel to Cameroon are UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to Belgium, Axelle Red, world-class tennis star and singer, Yannick Noah, Belgian author, composer and singer Saule and Nature reporter, 2008 First Prize Winner of the Wildlife Photographer, Cyril Ruoso.

It is said that thanks to the selection of Cameroon, the country is fast becoming a household name in the world with recurrent mention on Belgian public radio and television.

"The last imprint of this mega tourism event is the publishing of a book highlighting outstanding features of the foreign host country, given the appropriate means. Henceforth, Cameroon would be placed on the world podium of tourism, thanks to the sponsorship of Belgian business enterprises, on one hand, and the Cameroon government, on the other;” the information further noted.

The Minister of Tourism and Leisure is reported to have included Ngaoundere on the list of localities to be visited by the Belgian delegation.

Each summer since 1999, Le Beau Vélo de RAVel attracts thousands of bicycle riders amidst sponsors and journalists on a fun ride through old railways and footpaths traversing a selected countryside within the French-speaking part of the Kingdom of Belgium called La Wallonie.