Togo
A small country with a big heart and the running Naked Man
Togo was a stop we made in order to get a visa and in turn wait for the visa. The country is very small and we entered it from Ghana and made our way south to the Coast.
We skipped staying in the capital Lome, because of how hectic and hot it was and instead stayed right on the hot and humid beach at a small campground overlooking the Ocean.
Going into Lome only one time to see what the hype was, you can run into very persistent people, trying to take you to the fetish market(for voodoo rituals) where you can find anything from chimp heads, to dried snakes, to skins of different animals. I declined to go as I had already seen one in Mali and the smell in the sun was something out of a dump.
We bush camped one night at a waterfall and got to walk up to it one morning in order to see it. To me, this was the highlight of the country as I enjoy going out into nature and walking and staying in small towns (not big cities).
In an interesting note, it seems that man African cities/villages will have what they call a town idiot who seems to be the person who is always naked. I witnessed my first one in Togo and will continue to look out for them running in the streets or just sitting around naked waving at people enjoying the hot damp climate…..
Most of the time was spent sitting around the beach camp reading, writing and going through pictures as we prepared to enter neighboring Benin……
