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grets Says: In another section, not far from the dead animal part, was the area where they sold live goats. They were crammed in rather tight and making a lot of noise. Perhaps they’d seen the fate of their fellow animals in the butcher section?
grets Says: Inside one of the large halls, was the butcher section. Huge slabs on meat lay on solid concrete counters. The meat didn’t look bad, but it also did not look like the same quality as I would get in the supermarket back home. It did not smell though, as I have experienced in...
grets Says: The was nothing extraordinary about Kara market that stands it aside from many other markets in West Africa, but it was still a pleasant place to while away and hour or two. The market was divided into sections, and each section sold similar types of goods. Tomatoes in one...
grets Says: Kara market seemed to specialise in yams, and all along the main street were stalls selling yams of every size and shape. Allover Togo and other parts of West Africa, yams hold one of the greatest esteem of all the food products and are carefully integrated into the social,...
Hotel Kara: Boring concrete block
grets Says: Hotel Kara is on the outskirts of the town, and is quite modern and clean. It has very little character, however. There are some nice chalets dotted around the pool and the grounds, but we were in the main, large concrete block of a building. The room was fairly large, but...
Marie Antoinette: A shady place for Christmas Lunch
grets Says: We stopped just outside Kara at this restaurant for lunch on our way through (having stayed in Kara a couple of nights previously) from Taberma Valley south. It was a pleasant little spot to stop and they readily agreed to us cooking our own food and using their premises,...
Hotel Kara Restaurant: Quite dull
grets Says: The restaurant was like the rest of the hotel – clean and functional but rather featureless. There were no other patrons there when we arrived around 18:30, but a few more diners arrived later. We were encouraged to choose the Plat du Jour, which we did. David had fish and...
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Hotel Kara is on the outskirts of the town, and is quite modern and clean. It has very little character, however. There are some nice chalets dotted around the...
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Kara is a small market town on the main N1 road. It is not far from the Benin border. We were really just passing through (twice), but stopped for a while to have a look around. The nearby villages...
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