About eight kilometres south of Kribi, the Lobé River reaches the coast and tumbles directly into the Atlantic in a series of broad cascades. It is one of the very few places in the world where a waterfall empties straight into the sea, and the effect is genuinely strange: fresh water and salt water mixing in the spray, fishermen working pirogues in the surf at the foot of the drops.
The cascades themselves are not enormous — perhaps five to seven metres high in places — but they spread across a wide rocky shelf, with multiple channels and small pools you can wade into. A short trail along the bank gives the best view; for a closer look, local boatmen will take you upriver in a dugout to villages further inland. Sunset, with the falls backlit and the ocean turning copper, is the right time to come.