Day 137: Campment de Kloto – Ferme Yaka Yale

Funnily enough, Ian and Catherine arrived in Kuma Kloto yesterday. 

In the morning we go to the village and Prospère is ready for our walk. So far good for now.

However, the best season for butterflies is earlier, between September and December. That's why we see only few butterflies. Prospère keeps drifting off to chat with others, and the hike is actually too expensive at 9,000 CFA per person (just under 14 euros). But he knows a lot about plants and especially about obtaining color from plants – that saves the whole thing a little. The “Belle de nuit”, for example, is good for pink and for the sphinx moth because the flowers open at night. We see wild pineapples, which, by the way, take up to two years to ripen without special watering. We see the kola tree, whose nuts were previously used in the production of Coca-Cola and which you can simply chew to stay awake. And we see avocado trees again and still can't believe that they can be really big, dense and old.

After we have to pay something again to the person who “maintains” the place at a really small waterfall, we are a little annoyed.

Let's go back. 

We don't want to look at a butterfly book anymore, we don't want to buy honey, we don't want to test or buy palm liqueur, and we don't want to drink or buy coffee. We make our own little lunch and then the British and we part ways again. 

We don't drive very far and stop at a small farm southeast of Kpamlime. At the moment we are choosing places based on where we can actually sleep in the car, where it is quiet and where we can get something to eat.