Togo

Benin and Togo are relatively safe. Togo has some political unrest from time to time, and usually they're not to go outside, and so you just don't those days. But even if you do go outside there, it's rare they'll hurt white people. In Benin, there's also voodoo, like dancing voodoo priests and big colorful garb and whatever, and they'll threaten to hit you, but just kind of ignore them. I think that should be fine. Other than that, it's actually very safe, especially in Benin. I mean, even if you stay out late, like even if the sun goes down, I generally just tried to get home when the sun went down so that I wouldn't have to worry about anything, but even if you're stuck out late after the sun goes down, I never had any troubles. No one's, the crime rates are pretty low.

Driving in Benin is absolutely insane, and Togo as well, but it's a little bit worse in Benin when you look at the motorcycles. They call them motos or jimijan. They just take people around, they're like taxi motorcycles. And tips are, never get on one, ever, because they crash so much. They're super, super dangerous. Just take a bus or take a taxi, and then just watch the natives how they cross the street. It's crazy. Crossing the streets is the worst thing. I hated it so much, but just be careful. Just look both ways, and watch how the natives do it, and kind of follow suit. You're going to get ripped off. You're going to get the white man's price. Whenever you go up to somebody, they're going to try to give you a race price. You ask like, how much is this? And they will say something that is always going to be above what you want, or what it's actually worth. So what you're going to have to do is ask your companions what the price of things are before you buy them. Don't ever just buy something that someone says, this is the price, and you pay him. Never do that.