Lomé, Togo

2019-07-07/13 and 26/29: 10 days in Lomé immersed in African everyday life.

We spent ten days in Lome with a long time friend and his family. John, Tanty and their lovely little girl.

Tanty and Christine

Washing day is more funny with friends

Eyram, the lovely daughter.

Christine and John's sister, Ester.

John's mum.

John opened a coconut and serves the juice to Christine

Eyram, Thierry, Christine and Tanty

Eyram, Thierry, Christine, Tanty and John

By geocaching in Lomé

Tanty runs a small neighborhood medical office. His specialty: childbirth and pregnancy monitoring.

Tanty's medical station

with Gandalf

Tanty's medical station

Tanty is very proud of her station

The cabinet is also a center of life for the family who spends a lot of time there. For example to prepare meals, which always takes a lot of time in Africa.

John presents and explains the yams

Yam is first boiled

... and the pounded to make the paste.

The foufou (yam paste) is ready, with a spicy fish sauce.

Tanty also does a bit of business with Wax. This cotton textile having received on both sides a wax polish (a technique similar to the Javanese batik). Our friends let us choose the pattern to make custom clothes.

choosing the wax for our new clothes

Tanty's aunt is a seamstress. She is the one who will sew Christine's dresses in her "Haute Couture" workshop.

Tanty's aunt sewing workshop in Lomé

sewing machine made in China

The last steams of Christine's dress

Tanty's mother runs a small street kitchen where she offers a unique and invariable dish: red beans and cassava.

Tanty's mother street kitchen

Christine and Tanty's mother

Red beans and manioc

We visit the famous fetish market in Lomé. A voodoo market where the main actors are Beninese. Now a tourist attraction more than a traditional market. Few Togolese don't come here anymore to buy their "medicine" from voodoo sorcerers.

Fetish market of Lomé

with very beautiful masks

A ride on the beautiful beach of Lomé to observe the fishermen at work.

On the beach of Lomé

Fishermen bringing the net

the fishing seems to have been good

The big market of Lomé is worth spending a few hours there. You can find anything there. Even the cathedral of the city erected by the Germans more than a century ago in 1902.

The big market of Lomé

Lomé's cathedral

We were allowed to camp on the parking lot of the horse center of Lome after having lunch there (we eat very well in a nice place).

Bivouac at the horse center

In the horse center

Lunch at the horse center with John, Eyram and Tanty

Before getting back on the road, I need to repair a leaking front brake cylinder.
John watches me with interest. Always ready to learn for his workshop project.

Brake repair

John spare parts shop