There was some interesting scenery on the 10-hour drive from Accra to Kara. Here we are crossing the Volta River, one of the largest rivers in West Africa. Upriver, the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam creates Lake Volta and provides most of the electricity for Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
Kara is a mid-sized city in north-central Togo. Nominally the population is only about 50,000, but that grows substantially when people from the surrounding areas bring their produce to market. Crops, such as the corn seen here, are grown all over in the city as well as outside it.
Once we saw a little of the West African rainy season, we were glad we had missed it in Accra!
The rain definitely had benefits, though, such as cooler temperatures and rainbows like this.
In the mornings, fog sometimes rolled off the hills around Kara.
Misty air combined nicely with a huge baobab tree.
The clouds at sunset, taken from the roof in Kara.
In addition to corn, various small livestock are also very common in and around Kara.
Most livestock simply wanders around looking for things to eat, like these goats are doing.
This is a rather poor picture of one of the team's pet chameleon.
Kara certainly has its amenities, such as the pool at Hotel Kara, though it closes in the harmattan season, when dry dusty winds blow in from the north.