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Mont Agou Pic dAgou

Mont Agou Pic dAgou
Mountain Agou or the Agou Peak

Togo
Mountain Agou Highest Peak in Togo
06 52.370 North
000 44.930 East
1004 Meters above sea level, maybe 986 is correct?

Note, they say the mountain is 986 Meters high in the Encarta Encyclopedia and the Guidebook I think agrees. I took a reading of 1004 meters, I am not sure how to say or know, what is correct? I have a Magellan Explorist 100 GPS device. Information is interesting and who knows, the information collected years before is often the information a person is reading about 50 years later. The renditions of Africa are often viewpoints of 100 years ago.



This is the kilometer makers or the end of road marker at the top of Mont Agou, the top of the mountain as best I can figure is about 10 kilometers off the main highway. It cost us 1500 CFA to go by Moto to the top of Mountain one way, then another 300 to go to Koti one way.

Ooops, it may not be the end of the road, I was trying to capture the correct Togo Spelling. I think you have better luck getting the mountain if you say Pic d'Agou and not Mont Agou to the motos.



This is the view from Top of Mont Agou or Pic d’Agou, they was telling me I can see Ghana. I could not see anything but haze, but I am sure on super clear day you may. I think the name of the city below is Agou, not Kpalime.

At the top of the hill is a wire across the road, the taxi moto and Michael talked for about 10 minutes before the man gave us a small tour. There is one location that is nice, the others parts is like being in an industrial park with a cell phone tower. There is a cell signal here and they say it is Togocel and Moov on the tower.

What is strange, as a line of site, I could see this mountain from the Village of Koti, however I had not cell phone connection, I think it is about 10-20 kilometer from the mountain.

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Mont Agou Pic dAgou




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I hiked up to Pic d'Agou in 1983. It was spectacular. The highest village on Pic d'Agou (can't recall the name) was said to be a place of refuge in times of war. After I paid my respects to the chief, he (through an interpreter who spoke French) asked me what he could do for me. I told him that, after such a hike, all I wanted was a bath. He said a few words in the local lingo and a young gentleman let me off to a hut hanging from the side of a cliff. Behind the hut was the edge of the cliff and a small area paved in stone. A reed screen provided some privacy. He told me to strip and wait there. I did. After a while, a lovely pubescent girl appeared with two big tin basins of water, hot and cold. She bathed me with a loofa and black soap made with ash. In the plain below I cold see clouds roll in and unleash rain and lightening.

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