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Togo Slideshow
Togo
Travel Blogs from Togo
18 Jan 09 - Togo Info Lesson
... in less than two hours. It's coastline is 56km across but the country stretches inland for 540km. In 1884 Togo was a German protectorate. After losing WWI France and Britain claimed it, dividing the country between ...
Ho-me Sweet Ho-me
It was an "interesting" trip to Ho, taking about 2-3 hours if I remember correctly. We stopped at one place, a village just before a large bridge over a river (estuary of Lake Volta? I'm not sure), where we were mobbed by villagers and offered a variety ...
Family day
... happened to be German, came down from the Evangelical Hospital of Bembéréké. The missionary family who had returned to Togo after the recent events forced their evacuation made the trip over. Bible translators (who I was obviously happy to talk with) ...
Paludisme
Je n aurai pas beaucoup profité de la ville, car j ai recu le paludisme. C etait plasmodium falciparum,le paludisme le plus dure. Je suis donc resté qq a prendre mes medicaments et ā me ...
Settled In
Since I now have a camera again I plan to slightly drown you all in the pics that you have been asking about! I hope that you don't mind! By the end of the week this was the first week that I did not feel like I was still trying to settle in. ...
Quelqu'un a volé les lignes!
Amy wrote me in an email the past week about a show they did recently at Fresh call Unplugged "about a town where the power goes out for over a week and life falls apart". It made me giggle, sitting at my desk in Benin with my feet on the truck battery ...
Through rain and heat and dust...
Happy spring to all! I hope that you have all had a wonderful week! I also hope that you are all cherishing the cool/cold weather that you might be having! It has been a cool 96* here most of the week. I have never seen such dry heat! It's ...
Cotonou to Lomé
I was up early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so I kept preparing for the leadership seminars coming up. Due to the lack of French-speaking elders, I'll be doing all the presentations myself (not ideal), which means I have many things to ...
Only Two To Go!?
Eight months! I cannot believe that I have been here for that long! It has been such a great year and I am going to miss it a lot! There are only TWO weeks left of school! We are trying to wrap things up with the curriculum and get ready for ...
The First 100 Days
Greetings from your favorite PCVs in Ghana! Happy belated holidays! We had a very quiet first Christmas at our site in Sibi Hilltop. We went to church and relaxed most of the day. That night we enjoyed a bottle of wine and some cheese and crackers ...
Starting the seminars
... . His job with a pan African civil aviation authority called ASECNA, has meant his salary has always arrived on time, something few people in Togo have ever known. He is generous to those in need and a faithful servant in the Church. I was happy to see he ...
more zems, pede and sonarisation
So, ladies and gents, here's another entry for you. I wrote it a million years ago and haven't had a chance to get it up here. Okay, so I think maybe it was two or three weeks ago, based on the blueberry muffins, because I have no recollection of ...
Maps are Rare Here
... had decided on the recent journey from Accra to Lomé that I would attempt to hike the 50 miles from Kanté in Togo to Natitingou in Benin. All available literature describes it as being a truely spectacular stretch of countryside - mountains and valleys, ...
Chiefs, hospitality, palm wine and aktempeshie
Long day today - my alarm isn't loud enough to wake me if I wear my earplugs (necessary in noisy rooms), so I started off later than I had wanted - I was using the ITM map of Ghana, and by mid morning it showed me as having come about half way to ...
West-African MC Meeting...
... azt is megneztuk, hogy mindezek alapjan hol, hogyan tudnank szorosabban egyutt dolgozni... A resztvevo orszagok: Senegal, Elefantcsontpart, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon... 3 orszag egy az egyben frankofon orszag (Sen, Elef, Tog) viszont Cameroon is ...
French Again
Back in French-speaking Africa. I'd been spoiled in Ghana - everything about that country was easy. The language, the abundance of ATMs, the ease of getting about. Back to tough-going now (although let's be honest it will get much worse), though ...
Hazafele az ut kalandos...
Ugy dontottem, hogy az utrol vissza Accraba egy kulon oldalt nyitok, mert az egesz tenyleg egy kulon elmeny volt... Az egesz Vasarnap alapjaban az utazasnak volt szentelve, es ha jol belegondolunk kell is hozza, mert maga Kara-Lome het ora, egy ora ...
Farming et Gendarming
... that this white boy was telling the truth. Whether I am made aware of this discovery or not is, in many ways, irrelevant. Next stop Natitingou, Benin. Given the rubbish ending to Togo, I just wanted to get there quickly. So, no walkies as I had ...
Togo
... mat med en våldsam ihärdighet. Kvällen ängnades åt att ligga och sova med lätt feber. Nästa dag lämnade vi Togo för Benin och min feber avtog efter hand så att jag var mer eller mindre återställd framåtkvällskvisten. Tack och hej, ...
Accra (ii), Togo and Voodoo!
... on to our next capital city - Lome, the capital of the narrow (only 50ks across along Whit neighboring Benin) country of Togo. Incidentally, whilst also looking ahead to our next countries on the map, we happened to notice that Benin does bear more than ...
More Ghana, then into Togo
... took it for 14k. Take a warm shower, and head out to look at the town after an excellent pamplemousse drink. Vive la France! Togo is quite a small country, with a population of 5.1 million. It doesn't see a lot of tourists, and has had lots of problems ...
On to Togo
... ', to let him know we arrived, and to suggest we meet tomorrow at his convenience to discuss how we should handle my visit. The next few days will no doubt be busy and important for the church members in Togo. I’m looking forward to seeing ...
Weaving
On Friday afternoon, the Peace Corps workers started rolling into town. They came from nearby villages to use the internet, take real showers, and hang out with other white people. We went out for dinner after work, stopping along the way to buy some ...
Field Work
Today, Alon and I went to Dodome, a village about 20 minutes from Ho. We came to conduct a number of interviews with our clients and to spend the night in a homestay. Call me a softie, but I was not looking forward to the homestay. I envisioned sleeping ...
An Introduction to Microfinance
So the reason I came to Ghana (and those of you who know about volunteering know that Ghana is the most clichéd place to go) was to work with a microfinance project out of the town of Ho. I looked the world over through various internet searches and ...
First Impressions
The first thing I noticed about Ghana as we began our descent to the airport was the darkness. Flying into Chicago, say, the lights on the ground stretch in all directions. Here, 80km north of the capital, Accra, it was dark. Driving through Accra later, ...
Sunday - first full day of activities
Today was quite a day; full of ups and downs as we started the activities of this mini-camp. Pierre Kloutsé was right on time to pick us up at 8:00. We drove through the quiet streets (Sunday is a slow day) of Lomé to the Church hall. We ...