Capital: Lomé

Main languages: French (official), Ewe, Kabiye

Highlights

In Togo,

• Discover the laidback capital Lomé, home to Marché des Féticheurs, the world’s largest voodoo market. Shop at the Grand Marché. See the latest exhibition at the Palais de Lomé, an art and culture centre located in the redeveloped Governor’s Palace

• Visit former colonial capital Aného

• Hike in the green and lush Volta Region. Try Togolese coffee. Meet with local artists whose paintings are created using plants and other natural ingredients

• Explore the unique mud houses of the Batammariba people in Koutammakou in Togo’s north

• Attend a festival:

  • Evala, a week-long event held in July in the Kabye region in Togo’s north. Here young men wrestle each other as part of their initiation into adulthood

  • Ayiza, a harvest festival held in Tsevie in the south of Togo in August

  • Epe Ekpe, a Togolese voodoo festival held in Glidji for a week in September