The town of Mokolo in Northern Cameroon is the center of what was then a fairly thriving tourist industry. We were astounded that shopkeepers there were willing to rent bicycles to tourists. Unless you had a car, there was almost no other way of getting around, except by bike. Despite the parched, near-desert in the background, this Sahel area was studded with many prosperous villages and far from unpopulated. The locals tended to be insular and inwardly focused on village and family life, and went about their lives and ignored the tourists. Of course, that is what made them interesting. They practiced many local religious traditions, rituals, dances, and the like and didn’t really care who came to watch.