The Local Gas Station

Although there are chain gas stores throughout Togo, including Shell and Total, bush taxi drivers often buy gas at the side of the road, sold in old plastic bottled water bottles or old Pastis bottles (an anise-flavored liqueur). Note the one driver using a twig to keep the opening to the fuel tank open. We were stopped in the middle of nowhere along the national highway because the car ran out of gas. Fortunately a motorcycle taxi driver came by and we were able to get him to buy gas for us so we could refuel and get going again.