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- Lome
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 5,153,088
- Population
- TG
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Togo Slideshow
Togo
Travel Blogs from Togo
Arrival in Togo
... 4:00 and drove us to the hall once again. We started the evening Bible Study a little after 4:30. All the young people from Togo had arrived; with some coming from the village of Momé Hagou about 90 minutes' drive away to the north and east; and others ...
Waterfalls!
In Ghana, you wake up at 5:30. Every day. You may go back to sleep later, but the cacophonous combination of the country's roosters, hens, and other assorted avian inhabitants will surely rouse you from your slumber. Today, we elected to get up. ...
My Final Day in Africa
... , mostly Togolese slave quarters. We also grabbed a quick bite to eat of some local Togolese cuisine before heading to the Ghana-Togo border. Here’s a quick rant about the borders. Like I mentioned before, if you are a white visitor, you will have ...
Monday at camp
Today, Pierre came to pick us up at 7:30 as planned. We drove into the center of Lomé and I changed some money on the street. The hotel was offering 385 CFA Francs for a dollar. At the bank at the airport I had gotten 400/dollar, changing just enough ...
Work day in Lome
This morning while I was having breakfast, Jacob, a local member and Paul Tia arrived at the hotel. Jacob was on his way to work (he does electric motor repairs), Paul who had spent the night at Jacob's home, asked to spend the day with me while Jacob ...
An Update on Llife
It's been a month, so I think an update on my quotidian Ghanaian life is in order. The heat is becoming much less oppressive than it once was, though I haven't notic3ed it getting much cooler with the rainy season (or much rain for that matter) and I ...
Saying Good-bye
The crummy thing about travel is that you have to leave places behind. Some would argue that such changes are the highlight of traveling, variety being the spice of life, if you will. I am disposed to feel otherwise at this moment. It is time for me to ...
Sabbath in Lomé
... ; After the break to reorganize the chairs we had updates from a delegate from each country represented: Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Rwanda. They gave updates on the legal status of the association, any organizational changes, ...
Last day in Lomé
... have our second Togolese congregation. It will give our visitors the chance to meet other brethren, to see a bit of Togo, and give our other Togolese brethren the opportunity to meet our visiting leaders, which they will greatly appreciate. In ...
Hikes and bikes and guides and voodoo
... on to Kpalime for a few days hiking and stayed in a place with a pool (yey). Kpalime is a good sight for checking out Togo's hiking through the rolling hills of coffee country with 2 mountains in the close vacinity, Mount Agou and Mount Klouto. So we went ...
Traveling on to Lomé
... earlier than planned. That's because Air Ivoire, unexpectedly changed my schedule about two weeks ago, forcing me to leave Togo on next Tuesday instead of Wednesday as we had originally planned. Starting early will help us make up for the day we'll ...
Sabbath in Lomé
... for the members. He laughed when I said I was happy to give the sermon, but hadn't wanted to t presume. "We have a proverb in Togo" he said “when the head is there, one doesn’t put one’s hat on his knee.” That seemed to explain ...
Sabbath in Lomé - the start of camp
... and showed two half-hour videos of pastoral trips I had made in various parts of Africa and Europe (including a visit to Togo from a few years ago). They were very interested to see the different places where we have Church brethren. Just before services ...
Meetings in Lomé
Another full day. Kossi Fiaboé arrived at the hotel at 8:30 this morning and we drove through the mostly empty streets (it's Sunday). All the men were present on my arrival, so I set up my laptop and microphone so I can record the sessions. We ...
Friday in Lomé
... the study of the Bible. I finally arrived back at the hotel after 8:00 pm, just in time for dinner on French time. Togo was first a German colony (Togoland) up until the end of the First World War when it was taken over by the French as part of ...
Voodoo, who do?
Pick pockets galore in lome, a few people got stung and a voodoo under current. Unsettling but not scary, a togo party was had by the ...
Monks make me sick
... transport and speaking English Ghana had actually been pretty easy and enjoyable to travel around so time for something more difficult again. Togo did not disappoint as our first journey consisted of 11 people shoved into a a 5 seater with 2 people sat ...
Lome la poubelle
We travelled to Lome for our last few days in West Africa. Lome used to be a beautiful city and that still shows, it looks a bit like Nice, if Nice got badly beaten up by somewhere crappy. There are quite a lot of peace and reconiliation posters ...
Monday in Lomé Togo
Monday, I decided to let my ladies sleep in. Due to a combination of jet lag (not sleeping normally), and the African climate, they have all three felt tired through the day almost every day. Tatiana and I finally went down for breakfast at about 9:30, ...
Now in Togo
... , Prosper probably gave an official a "tip" for this favor, but I didn't ask any details. We didn't have visas for Togo. A Togolese visa from their embassy in Washington DC costs $100 per person, plus processing fees that can be up to another $50. ...
Sunday in Togo
... offered us all an orange Fanta, which was very generous of him given local difficulties. Pierre explained that economic life in Togo is very difficult. All foreign aid to Togo was cut off years ago because of the undemocratic practices of the previous ...
Kluoto & Hill Country, Togo, December 6 - 7, 2007
... became possible for us to actually do a bit of touring rather than just transit through quickly. Despite its small size Togo has a diverse tribal population dominated in its southern parts by members of the Ewe tribe. Togo was briefly one of ...
Togoville, Togo, December 8 - 10, 2007
... but its current appeal lies in its role as an important center of the Voodoo religion with a flourishing fetish market. Lake Togo, the freshwater body of water between our camp and Togoville, is still clean and shallow enough to be navigated by ...
Lome & Kpalime, Togo, December 8 & 11 - 12, 2007
... a few cookies I had in my backpack and a bottle of Awooyo beer, a rich amber brew that's one of the legacies of Togo's German colonial era. I used earplugs the first half of the night to drown out the street noise but still thought I heard ...
Yam Festival
I stumbled onto a Yam Festival in Ho (a regional capital). The ceremony itself was pretty dull but for several hours leading up to it different groups performed traditional music while the chiefs of all the villages in the area made their grand ...
Mt. Adaklu
Pretty mountian and a challenging hike. Climbed to the top on Sunday morning and listened to all the music from all the curches around the base. Hard to get out of town--I had to spend and extra day and still had trouble getting a ...
I'm with the band
In the hills around Kpalime I spent a few days hiking through butterfly filled forests of coffee and fruit trees. I stayed in a little mountain village and next door to my hostel there was some sort of choral group that seemed to be practicing 24-7. ...
Overdue Photos!!!
Here is a sample of my photos. There are pictures of the ship (a few), the island of Tenerife, Loro Parque, and Mount Teide. This is mainly the things that happened outside working hours in Tenerife. I will post a few of Africa very ...