ouagadougou

The Lome bus doesn't leave until Saturday so we took a chance and went to the Gare Routiere where we found a Peugot 504 going to Lome (12500 CFA) and left fairly promptly. We had to stop at 18 controls before we got over the border and consequently it was shut when we got there. We were happy to spend the night there as it would mean seeing Togo in daylight, and the road runs through a big game park, however the border opened fairly rapidly (the driver having oiled a few palms as he had to do at almost every stop) and we proceeded, though only as far as the game park where we had to stop for 2.5 hours - Extremely uncomfortable with thousands of mossies - I think because the driver wanted a sleep (fair enough) . I bedded down on the side of the road and pulled my sleeping bag over my head, and ignored the prospect of lions etc!.Read more