Issues to do in Togo (Podcast)

Hear about journey to Togo because the Beginner Traveler talks to Philipp Muders from the Journication Journey Weblog about this small West African nation.

Philipp says, “I used to be touring, backpacking, really in Togo roughly precisely two years in the past. So finish of 2019, earlier than the pandemic had hit us all. I used to be backpacking on this particular area of the world.  I traveled from Ivory Coast by Ghana, Togo, as much as Benin. One of the vital fascinating locations on the journey was Togo.”

“Togo shocked me. It was for me, to start with, simply the nation to journey by fairly rapidly, however I stayed there for much longer than anticipated to start with. Togo is a really thrilling nation a bit off the crushed monitor. Once I was touring there, you solely met a number of white individuals in any respect. It’s not very touristy so it’s an ideal vacation spot for me to essentially get pleasure from native tradition. They’ve a stupendous shoreline. The entire coast in Western Africa is gorgeous, lovely palm seashores, white sand. It’s additionally an incredible place for mountaineering once you depart the coast going up a bit of bit north, within the, into the middle of the nation. For me, it was a really good place to find out about historical past.”

Philipp talks to us about 3 totally different locations within the nation: Lomé, Kpalimé, and Togoville.

Lomé is the capital of the nation and it’s on the coast. You may benefit from the metropolis from a beautiful beachside lodge or dive deep into the tradition as Philipp did with residence keep in a neighborhood with out working water or constant electrical energy. Benefit from the lovely seashores, the colourful markets or the weird Fetish Market which is utilized by adherents of voodoo. 

Kpalimé is within the inexperienced inside the place you may simply choose up a information and do a hike to an area waterfall or two.

Philipp loved the colonial historical past in Togoville. There’s a church constructed in the course of the time when Togo was a German colony which Philipp significantly, as a German, loved seeing. However you may also see native voodoo shrines. Getting there by way of a dugout canoe is a part of the enjoyable. 

See if we will’t lure you additionally to this small however colourful nation on the west coast of Africa. 

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Present Notes

Journication Journey Weblog
Togo
Lomé
Kpalimé
Togoville
Lomé Grand Market
Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral, Lomé
Palais des Congrès
Independence Monument, Lome
Akodessawa Fetish Market
Lodge Robinson Plage, Lomé
Lodge 2 Fevrier, Lomé
Agbodrafo
A Go to to Togoville, Togo – Completely satisfied Days Journey Weblog
Backpacking in West Africa – Journey Suggestions & Route

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