Day 105, 10052 km Abomey, Benin – camping under trees

I celebrated reaching the milestone of 10,000 km today by eating a banana for every 1,000 km after accidently buying a weeks supply for under 30p! Progress was slow on undulating dirt roads across Togo’s agricultural plateau & continued to be so till the rarely used border post where I had to wait for the guards to finish their game of cards, to accept cash from locals to cross & then deliberate over the validity of my visa. Once in Benin and back on smooth tarmac, I made time to sample a new form of tasteless pounded starch and a particularly spicy sauce containing unknown meats, fish and egg available according to one’s order!