Togo

Togo’s hilly landscape, diverse cultures, yam-based dishes, and the football team that qualified for the 2006 World Cup.Lome, the capital, is one of the most beautiful cities in West Africa, with the grand Blvd du 13 Janvier sweeping away from the beach and into the heart of a ribald city, heaving with nightspots. To the east, past the resorts on Lake Togo and the Atlantic beaches, Aneho exudes crumbling colonial charm, and has a fetish market. Voodoo is also practised across the lake in Togoville, a fishing village with fetishes in the streets. Lome was once a city that claimed to be the Paris of West Africa, and it’s easy to see how attractive it was in its heyday. There is still real charm to its broad boulevards, palm-fringed beaches, craft markets and full-on nightlife..