In West Africa, Togo stands to be one of the prominent tourist destinations with quite a variety of tourist attractions to offer to its visitors. The charming attraction destinations in the country have drawn several tourists from all corners of the world to come enjoy this splendid country.
3 Days Togo Tour – Lomé, Togoville, and Lake Togo
7 Days Togo Tour – Lomé, Kpalimé, Togoville, Lake Togo, Sokodé & Kara
10 Days Togo Tour – Lomé, Lake Togo, Kpalimé, Sokodé, Kara, Koutammakou & Coastal Villages
Why Choose Togo For Your Tour
Togo offers West Africa’s most compact cultural circuit: the extraordinary Akodessawa Fetish Market in the capital Lomé, considered the world’s largest Voodoo market with animal parts and ritual objects for Voodoo practice filling an entire marketplace, the Koutammakou Landscape (UNESCO World Heritage) where the Batammariba people maintain their distinctive multi-storey mud tower houses called takienta, the mountain town of Kpalimé with its German colonial heritage and nearby butterfly forest, and the Benin border town of Ouidah connections through shared Voodoo heritage. Combined Togo and Benin tours for eight to nine days cost approximately €2,895 per person. Togo covers 56,785 square kilometres, bordered by Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso, with a population of approximately 9 million people.
Where To Go in Togo
Lomé
Lomé, Togo’s capital, has an unusual position directly on the Gulf of Guinea coast with the Grand Marché, one of West Africa’s largest markets largely run by the Nana Benz women traders who built significant economic power through cloth trading. The Akodessawa Fetish Market is a remarkable open-air market of dried animal parts, bones, feathers, and ritual objects used in Voodoo practice across West Africa, staffed by traditional healers who prescribe treatments from the stalls. Entry costs approximately $3 to $5 per person. The National Museum and the Art Nouveau Cathédrale du Sacré-Coeur round out the Lomé heritage circuit.
Koutammakou Landscape
The Koutammakou Landscape in northern Togo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the living environment of the Batammariba people, whose distinctive takienta tower houses (mud-brick multi-storey structures with thatched conical roofs, some fortified with an upper storey for defence) are both architectural achievements and living homes. The landscape’s current population continues to inhabit these traditional structures in a working agricultural community. The site is accessible from Kara town in northern Togo, approximately six hours from Lomé.
Kpalimé
Kpalimé in western Togo is the country’s most pleasant highland town, set in the foothills of the Togo mountain range at 350 metres with coffee and cocoa plantations, the famous Kloto butterfly sanctuary (over 600 butterfly species recorded), and German colonial-era buildings from the pre-WWI Togo Protectorate. Fazao Malfakassa National Park in central Togo holds buffaloes, baboons, and various antelope species, accessible from Sokodé town.
When Is the Best Time To Visit Togo
The dry season from November to March is optimal for all Togo travel, with the Koutammakou landscape most accessible and Lomé’s climate at its most comfortable. The rainy seasons (April to June and September to October) bring lush vegetation and can make northern roads more challenging.
What is the Average Cost of a Tour to Togo
Combined Togo and Benin tours for eight to nine days cost approximately €2,895 per person. Independent mid-range travel costs approximately $80 to $130 per day. Hotels in Lomé cost from $40 to $100 per night. Most nationalities can obtain a Togo visa on arrival at Gnassingbé Eyadéma International Airport (LFW) in Lomé for approximately $70 USD. French is the official language. The West African CFA Franc (XOF) is the currency.
Togo compresses West Africa’s most distinctive cultural experiences into a country you can drive across in a day: the world’s largest Voodoo market in Lomé at one end, the UNESCO Batammariba tower house landscape at the other, and a butterfly forest and German colonial hill town somewhere in the middle.