Ginger-lemon tea is one of my favourite homemade teas. I love the smell and the blend of tastes from the ginger and the lemon.

This tea is also good for the respiratory system because it cleanses and eases breathing. It's therefore great to drink ginger tea for colds and coughs. It reduces the feeling of nausea and helps with digestion.

So many healthy reasons to drink this tea. So how do we make it? Here is how to make some ginger-lemon tea.

- Peel, wash, and grind the ginger into a paste. Put the quantity you want into a teacup.

- Boil some water for the tea.

- Add the hot water to the ginger paste.

- Wash lemon and slice into two halves. Squeeze the lemon juice into the cup.

- Add some honey. Stir.

- Let it settle and drink.

That's how you make some hot ginger tea. You can replace the lemon with lime if that's what you have or prefer at home.

Apart from its good taste, ginger tea is a good cleanser as ginger and honey are good for cleaning the throat and lungs. Lemon is good for cleaning the stomach and reduces fats in the body.

I love taking this tea early in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before I go to sleep because it helps in my digestion throughout the day and calms my belly in the evening for a good night's sleep.

Hope you try this tea and get the best results as I do. You may want to skip the lemon if you suffer from gastritis.

Do you take ginger tea? How does it help you? Please share your thoughts in a comment.

When you become a mom, your life is taken over by your kid for at least a while. It's not easy to think about yourself when you have a baby to take care of. But it is necessary. 

Here are seven easy and cheap ways to show yourself some self-care within the comfort of your home.

This is one of my favourite self-care. A shower once or twice a day is satisfying and relaxing. It's best when the baby is asleep so that you can be more at peace and relax for just a few minutes. Here are a few products to help you take a relaxing bath or shower at home.

Sleep

Social Media

Dance 

Yoga & Meditation

Invite friends over for a chat

It can be complicated to go out while nursing a baby so have your friends come over so that you can catch up and chat. 

We got there in the afternoon and our visit only started after the heavy rain stopped. I will advise you to go with an umbrella during the rainy season because the umbrellas provided on the public seats couldn't protect us from the rain. The umbrella wasn't big enough to reach the seats.

After taking refuge from the rain under the shelter of one of the offices (which we were lucky to be standing near when the rain started) our self-guided visit of the zoo began.

I was excited because of two reasons; I was going to blog about my visit and secondly, there was a new animal in the zoo. 

I was so happy to see a new animal was added to the zoo. It is a beautiful parrot that reminds me so much of the cartoon Rio! 

There wasn't any detailed information provided about the bird yet. It's a very beautiful bird. So nice to see and I love the bright red, the blue and the yellow feathers it has plus its long tail. On my classification, it has become the most beautiful animal of the zoo, taking the Mandril to the second position.

Other animals in the zoo include lions, various species of monkeys, birds,  tortoise, crocodile, snakes etc.

These are not all of the animals of the zoo. There are many others but it wasn't a sunny day so the cages were quite dark and the pictures were not good as well.

There are also a few highlighted plant species. The pictures I took of the plants weren't bright enough as well so I'll just give some of their common names; Bubinga, Ylang, Azobe, etc. 

- Access to the children's playground is 1000frs per child.

- There are seats in the open air between the cages where you can sit alone or with your loved ones.

- There is also a restaurant and a swimming pool which is being renewed. Access to the pool is 1000frs per person and there is a shallow pool for kids to swim.

- Access to the taxonomy centre is 200frs per person. There are animals and their parts that have been preserved by a technique of drying them. This technique keeps the animal in the same form or shapes like it's still alive. It also preserves some parts like the bones and skulls of animals for a very long time. I didn't go in to visit the taxonomy centre this time guys so I have no pictures.

- If you come with your car you may have to park it out of the zoo. There are also toilets which the visitors can use.

* In my opinion, the place is improving a little because the restaurant is now functioning, the toilets have been renewed, the swimming pool is also going operational as well. The last time I visited before now all these facilities were not working and all that there was to it was only the animals.

There has also been some repainting of the walls and now both of the entrances are functioning as opposed to before when people were allowed to use just the main entrance. This was usually annoying because the main entrance is far from the main road and most public transporters will not go inside except you pay them extra. 

- Like I said before, take an umbrella if you are visiting in the rainy season. The weather can suddenly change in Yaoundé.

- Wear long trousers and shirts to avoid mosquitoes and itches from the grass around some of the cages. 

- It's a fun outing for a group. Like I mentioned this is my third or fourth time being there but it's my first time being there in a group and it was so much fun. It's easy to organise and really affordable.

- There's a restaurant but you can take your own food along. Like we did. We had our own snacks prepared that we brought along. 

- Apparently, the zoo has to be completely rehabilitated by 2019. I guess this is against the 2019 African Nation's Cup to be organised in Cameroon. I hope that after this the place will be well maintained and that we will not have to wait to host another sports competition to renew it.

I hope to visit again and do another review after the renovation is done. While waiting for that I'll say it's still an interesting place to visit.

If you are in Yaoundé and you want to escape the urban life for a moment or you want to get in touch with nature without travelling to a far place then you should visit The Mvog-Betsi Zoo. It's the perfect place for family, lovers and friends to spend quality time together.