{"id":405,"date":"2012-06-29T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/?p=405"},"modified":"2014-03-29T17:51:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T17:51:23","slug":"day-3-and-4-hiking-in-kpalime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 and 4 Hiking in Kpalime"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hired a guide out of the Geyser Motel where we camped last night.\u00c2\u00a0 After breakfast Jean-Baptiste (gee-bay) <\/em>\u00c2\u00a0took us down a couple of gorgeous hiking trails.\u00c2\u00a0 The first was a 3 hour circle through\u00c2\u00a0 crops including coffee, cocoa, yam and cassava, past some charming villages.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We are so glad to be out of smoky Accra and breathe fresh air.\u00c2\u00a0 The second trail was into a waterfall\u00c2\u00a0 on Mount Klouto, the highest peak in the region, where we were able to get wet and cool off.<\/p>\n

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Kpalime Greenery<\/p><\/div>\n

Tuesday is market day in Kpalime so we went back into town in the afternoon and had the mud washed off the Land Rover while we wandered about through the shops.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out we were in the petit marche, <\/em>the main market is at the other end of town entirely, but it was still fun.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There seem to be a relatively high proportion of muslim merchants, we bought a CD of contemporary Togolese\u00c2\u00a0 music\u00c2\u00a0 (hip-life we think, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know) and an umbrella.<\/p>\n

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Kpalime Market Day<\/p><\/div>\n

Late afternoon we headed back for Mt. Klouto where we had discovered the government-run Campement<\/em> \u00c2\u00a0de Klouto\u00c2\u00a0 at the very end of a steep and winding road where we had taken our hike to the waterfall.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0It is the site of an old German hospital.\u00c2\u00a0 Togo was ceded to France as part of the terms of the 1919 Versailles Treaty following WWI.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Prior to that the Germans had been here for about 50 years and have left many traces.\u00c2\u00a0 It might have been a great hospital but as a hotel it does not have much to offer .\u00c2\u00a0 The staff were very friendly and seemed\u00c2\u00a0 quite accustomed to welcoming campers and overlanders.\u00c2\u00a0 They showed us where to park and gave us a key to a very austere room as access to a washroom.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed austerity is the defining feature of this particular establishment.\u00c2\u00a0 The reception, the restaurant and any room we saw were sparsely furnished with bare walls.<\/p>\n

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Mount Klouto Trailhead<\/p><\/div>\n

The Campement is also where the trail to the summit starts and after breakfast we took the 45 minutes hike up.\u00c2\u00a0 It is as much a road as a trail and we could have driven up, but wanted to keep up our hiking habit.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we drove into Kpalime, had an internet stop and carried on further north to the a Benedictine\u00c2\u00a0 Monastery located north of Adete, far up in the Danyi Plateau, a mountain chain that runs along the Ghana-Togo border.\u00c2\u00a0 We could have entered Togo near here, but that would have meant going through parts of Ghana that we were already very familiar with so we decided to come into Togo further south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hired a guide out of the Geyser Motel where we camped last night.\u00c2\u00a0 After breakfast Jean-Baptiste (gee-bay) \u00c2\u00a0took us down a couple of gorgeous hiking trails.\u00c2\u00a0 The first was a 3 hour circle through\u00c2\u00a0 crops including coffee, cocoa, yam and cassava, past some charming villages.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We are so glad to be out of smoky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-african-wander-taking-it-on-the-road","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}