KPALIMÉ, TOGO (PART TWO)
Kpalimé is a town about 75 miles northwest of Lomé. It is at the foot of some moderate-sized mountains and close to several waterfalls. This is Page Two of the pics in and around Kpalimé. Click here for Part One.

First, a view from a mountain top near Kpalimé (in haze caused mostly by smoke from field burning)...



Zooming in towards that village below...



Another view...



A Dracaeana plant very close by (not sure if it's native or introduced)...



A fiddle-leaf fig (Ficus lyrata)...appears to be native to the area...



Red bugs (appears to be beetles) in the forest...



One of many Bombax (silk cotton) trees...



There are a lot of cacao (for chocolate) trees, some used for cultivation (though they're native to Tropical America)...





I was able to enjoy the pulp of a cacao fruit on the trail...



There was some coffee being grown locally as well, with this coffee tree in bloom...



One of many nearby very small towns...



One type of Ficus tree in this small town...



A native staghorn fern (Platycerium stemaria) on that Ficus...



Some kind of ornamental-looking Tapinanthus parasite growing on an orange tree...





One kind of cola tree, Cola gigantea, with some nuts...





Some local paintings done entirely using natural pigments (from tree leaves, etc.)...



A rural road (this is actually a small highway) in the mountains. Note the large African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) on the right...



Leaving Kpalimé, I took this very run-down vehicle (along with 12 or so other people) to go Hohoe in Ghana...









All of the above pictures on this page were taken in February 2014 by Brandt Maxwell.

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