Country Info
- Lome
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 5,153,088
- Population
- TG
- Country Code
Lome Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lome
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Corinthia Hotel 2 Fevrier Lome
3 reviews -
Ibis Lome Centre
41 reviews -
Mercure Lome Sarakawa
66 reviews
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Hotel Cocobeach Lome
11 reviews
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Hotel Equateur Lome
9 reviews -
Queen Palace Lome
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Foyer des Marins Lome
2 reviews
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Hotel Belle-vue Lome
13 reviews
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Hotel Palm Beach Lome
6 reviews
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Hotel les Acacias Lome
2 reviews
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Hotel Cote Sud Lome
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Hotel Epsilon Lome
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Travel Blogs from Lome, Togo
It was worth it
This is a top pick! ... of our world, the world has a duty to heal it, heal it we can and we must. Tony Blair But if foreigners living here in Togo can live a life where they don't care (or do nothing about, its the same thing) and they can ignore, if they choose to, the ...
The Biggest TKMax in the world
This is a top pick! ... . Wellwellwell, We went on a Monday morning just after they had received there deliveries, and it is a fairly normal market for Togo, lots of wooden shack type things sprawling, instead of food, all sorts of clothes where on sail, from baby clothes to ...
Short- Random obervations
This is a top pick! Random Things I've recently realised. Have begun to notice that a surprisingly large number of my friends are getting malaria, so my bedroom is now a fortress, Feel like a true expat!!! I was doing all the recommended things like spraying, using the Air ...
Accra to Lome
This is a top pick! ... when I got off the plane (might not have been for me though!!) The next day I jumped on a bus to Aflao, the Border to with Togo, It was good to get out of the city and see some of the country side, although as I was sitting in the front seats there ...
Ghana to Togo
This is a top pick! ... side of the falls, it was a spectacular place where you can apparently have bat for dinner, but instead we left for the Togo border and spent the night camping on the border town's football pitch. Ghana has been a wonderful place full of the friendliest ...
Everything is changing
This is a top pick! ... Last day is Monday, I have to visit another NGO tomorrow!!) ------ The title is true, seriously so much stuff has hanged in my "Togo Life" over the last few days, firstly the rota has changed for the guards (every house has a guard who sits outside, he ...
I'm not depressed honest
This is a top pick! Hellooo, well after writing that last entry I felt as though a weight was off my shoulders, I think everything had just been building up and I didnt really tell anyone about it; but I also now know that I didnt really have much chance for reflection, and ...
My life aint normal
This is a top pick! ... and was just gunna correct it before putting it public, it was meant to be vaguely amusing and about the weird differences between Togo and the UK. But then yesterday I encountered a guy whose 12 yr old daughter died yesterday morning after being sick for ...
Settling in
This is a top pick! ... there remaining family members(most are orphans but the large African families look after the kids in the summer) I thought great yes fantastic. Togo isn't very big and once we'd left the capital it wasn't long before we were in some villages, most of ...
Allé revenir
This is a top pick! I've a few things to talk about today; it could be along entry but Ill try to break it up into cunning sections, these being my Visit to Church, 5 Crying Babies and Swimming lessons Ive also spent hours uploading photos!! so click on the thumbnails ...
First Impressions of the childrens Village
This is a top pick! ... out but like all good plans the reality is totally different. The first time I walked in the village (which is in the capital (Lome), about 10 bungalows which hold about 8 children and a "mother" each, the mother is responsible for the day to day life of ...
Im Still here!! And Im happy
This is a top pick! ... , and there are no HIV+ children on the village, this is for a number of reasons and is nothing to do with the stigma as Togo is quite good and honest about AIDS, but SOS does try and give them a better life whilst they are still alive, giving money for ...
A Quote
This is a top pick! ... when I said "I'm going to take a week off and go travelling" I managed to procrastinate so effectively that I never left Togo!! instead I visited lot of other NGO's (Non-Governmental Organisation's / aid organisations) That was quite cool and I got to ...
Shopping For Fetishes
... and shrines in Burkina and Ghana in particular and, while similar to what we were about to see in Benin and Togo, there were many significant differences as well. In all cases, and contrary to Hollywood beliefs and preconceived notions, Voodoo is a ...
Day 31 July 31 Tema to Lome
... car came to the crossing. We went to meet him and waited by the car for the last stage of the process getting the car into Togo. There is a lot beach here and very little development along it. We tried a couple of hotels near the beach but they were too ...
"Baptaime Africain" African Baptism
... bethel that very day, but bethel visited me ! *name changed The brother's in that particular part of Togo need the prayer's of those abroad very much. The streets of Lomé are no longer prosperous, booming and clean as i had ...
Hospitals
I have a LOT to say about The Social Centre, but barely any time left before I have to get back before the gate is locked... (it's 8:30 pm..), and I really wanted to keep this separate anyway, so I'll come back to all the other stuff another time. Today ...
Le Centre social
I lasted a grand total of two weeks at the social centre. It was incredibly frustrating... Every morning, they'd come in before 7.30 (do you know how long it's been since I've woken up after 6 am?! It is ridiculous.) and so the morning meeting ...
Lome, Togo
... to the office. One guy is staying there, so I am going to dinner with him and the country director of PC Togo. I will explore Lome tomorrow and then head to the village where Amanda is. Mosquitoes...I am being eaten alive. Strangely, the mosquitoes ...
Togo Bethel
... the grand tour of bethel by sister A. the wife of brother A. who visited me in hospital. The well designed Togo bethel, co-ordinates the distribution of spiritual food to two country's and through the HLC maintains Togo's best equipped theater ...
Leaving Togo
... 13.67miles so...as far as i know this is the only blog that has any information on towns in Togo outside of Lome and Togoville---or the first blog where Togo is the destination, not just a point between two points of interest. and ...
Ashantikongen og min svarte engel
Naa har jeg kommet til siste stopp paa reisen… og befinner meg altsaa i hovedstaden I Togo. Gullan (som bussen heter) har reist tilbake Ghana med de fleste i gruppen, og vi er 4 stykker igjen her. Siste gang jeg skrev var jeg i Accra i Ghana. Vi ...
Au dela des frontières
... C'est la fête à la maison, tout le monde vient ves moi et les photos fusent, ils me font découvrire leur quartier, Lome n'est pas beaucoup groudronné... mais par terre c'est du sable! Le Togo, c'est une plage immense! On m'amène dans une ...
The Story of the Brother (and the Cousin)
Now, as you all are well aware, being a lone white girl in West Africa means HASSLE. It's not nearly as bad here as it was in Mali and Burkina (or maybe I’m just used to it, or my answers are better prepared, or it’s, most liekly, because ...
Togo's Story
... , given the long narrow country has a coastline only extending a little over 50km. However Chris choose a different road into Togo which provided some great scenery and opportunity to experience a little more of this small country. Immediately after the ...
I'm not dead..
... doesn't bode well for the next few months in France...)! I did TRY to say I was going before we left, but unfortunately Togo has an issue with its internet connection at the moment and quite often there's no internet access ANYWHERE for a while. The ...
Togothon. Day 1, part I 5:30am-4pm
... was probably the hardest part of the hardest day of our trip across Togo. We left the hotel at 5:30 but started our walk IN TOGO (there was a short distance btwn the hotel and the border, then we had to go through immigrations) at 7:30 am. I was a ...
Kokrobite-Togo
... som finns i de flesta storstader! Men det kandes riktigt bra nar jag och Chris tillslut kom tillvag till Togo i onsdags! Tillbaka till fullpackade bushtaxis, konstiga sangloppor, stromavbrott = svettiga natter och patrangande manniskor! Borjar inse att ...