Wednesday, March 3
We're stuck at the border of Togo to Cinkassé more precisely. Nothing too exciting to do there: it is a transit town quite murky.
regoûtons We still beer Burkinabe both at the bar of the hotel Obama.
The next day is fairly quiet, very quiet, nothing to do in the village and sweltering heat. Fortunately, the evening ritual at our appetizer, we meet Michael the leader of the local gendarmerie, Jacques, the owner of the hotel and the surveyor of the village. With us reregoûtons local beer and we enjoy the bird to the sauce, a real delight.
But still no result for the elections ... it seems that its heating in Lome since the opposition leader declared himself winner. On Friday, March 5
The results are still not fallen and the border still blocked ... what consequences for the economy?? it did not seem to be a problem ...
We meet on the morning of Yakéou, a Togolese who ended up in a ravine with his semi-trailer ... true, we have seen, but "it no problem, it will go! He asks us just to get up so he could join Kpalimé then Lome and then recover the money with her boss and then return to Cinkassé out the truck and help his apprentice who is still in hospital ... You get lost a little, but we decided to help as we have already done a lot for us. It follows therefore now in the adventure, not very talkative guy but it looks legit.
We put our truck in the queue is long, very long for the border and we look again and again and it's hot, always hot ...
Late afternoon, we find our friend Constable Michael and rereregoûtons beer Beaufort. He then advised us to move our truck to the exit station Burkina order to do the formalities and sleep as normal, everything will be released tomorrow. So we follow his advice. Everything is going well ... made out of paper, we settle for the night and Ysel yake on mattresses outside and me in the truck. The animals keep us company: Biquet, pigs ... and snoring of other road ... On Saturday, March 6
We wake up early because the border opens ...
visas for 7 days to extend in Kara for a month (that's good, it's on our way ...), the customs that we allowed to pass without too much concern (for a fee of course, but no way to parley with the chief of customs, c is the total stress due to the world at the border!), and we're finally here in Togo, Togo, Togo!!
We have just under 500 km, the ideal would be to arrive in the evening ... but the road seems rather spoiled as they say ... lunch on the road near a waterfall in the middle of the forest and mountains : superbly spicy Ysel in a sweat! We stop Kara to extend our visa but the chef has just left, so they propose to return on Monday ... Oh, no!! We will see in Lome, we are too eager to get! The road turns actually pretty good until Atakpamé, we have 100 km and about 1 ½ hours before dusk ... We are getting to Kpalimé and there we quickly understand what is meant by a road spoiled ... c ' is almost impassable holes everywhere ... including on the bridges, we do 20 km over an hour: we had never seen it! At the same time, the road is magnificent: the rainforest, huge termite mounds, mountains, waterfalls! Unfortunately, we have to stop for the night falls and it's too dangerous to continue, even forcing them Ysel!
We sleep at an inn after paying a small fee for parking at the innkeeper lengthy negotiations! Mary became the negotiation pro!
Small skewer with peppers goat obviously because the meat is not necessarily the freshest and we sit still sleeping with boys outside and inside Mary. On Sunday, February 7
Early morning and a little difficult, we are supporting less and least our lack of hygiene ....
the road again! coool, we soon come! we enter Kpalimé without realizing it .... Then we drive towards Agomé Yoh ... ..
And here it is 11 pm and we arrived at last!
We jump into the arms of members of the CIA!
We went for nearly four weeks, is exactly 8,463 miles, crossed 6 countries, known as rain, snow, hail, storm, the desert wind, sun, heat and our first tropical rain yesterday! !
We unload the truck business, everything is almost in good condition! and we launch the initial activities: repairs bicycles, motorcycles ...
We meet together for an initial introductory meeting and to set expectations.
And we spend our first night home with sodabi tasting, wine palm, which looks more like a liqueur, it is potent!
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