Welcome to Lomé, Togo

New-to-us Port: #25.

Today, we had another O tour in another country in West Africa. But it was scheduled for mid-afternoon. This allowed us to have a leisurely breakfast as Insignia approached its berth at the commercial port.

Initially, our plan was to take the shuttle into town, wander around a bit, return to Insignia to have lunch, and meet up with our tour group at 2:45p.

After discussing this over breakfast, however, we decided to stay aboard and work on the Sri Lanka travel authorization we needed to complete online in order to disembark the ship in there.

The good news is that despite the lack of a strong signal, we managed to do the deed and have received the authorization emails.Read more