Togo Day 2 - Crossing to Ghana

Up bright and early to go to our cancelled location from yesterday. The streets were dead quiet. The place is called the 'Fetish Market', but it's more like a traditional medicine market but voodoo based. As a result, there are not a lot of herbs to be had but a lot of dead animal parts of startling variety. They are preserved to a degree, but the experience was somewhat aromatic. Everything from Hippo skulls & monkey heads to dried snakes. We were assured that none of the animals were killed for the market. They prefer basically road kill and animals that had died naturally.
There are a couple of Voodoo priests on site, so it's a one-stop shop. See the priest to get diagnosed, he or she writes a prescription, and you wander the vendors stall to get what you need.
We had an interview with the priest who showed us some helpful bits and pieces. A Legba to protect your house. Someone breaks in, and they go blind.
There was a charm to make people love each other for life. We went through the first steps to use that, and he blessed us. Then explained the next step was to rub it on your loved ones' chest, which Angela did. I must be a keeper. He was a nice young guy.
Then, off to cross the border into Ghana. It was a 20 minute drive. Paperwork, suitcases checked, money changed with a guy walking around with a massive wad of cash who gave us a good rate.
Next stop, lunch on the banks of the Volta River at a nice Resort Restaurant. They had French fries made from yam instead of potato. Nice.
Then traffic. Hours stuck in traffic. Not as amusing as yesterday when we were in the middle of a market. Just stuck on the highway not even doing walking pace. Crawled past a KFC and had cows wandering around between cars. Finally got to our destination exhausted. Our poor driver. He deserves a raise. Oh, and we have to switch languages from French to English for Ghana. Hope the bread is still nice.Weiterlesen