Blogs from Cape Coast, Central, Ghana, Africa - page 10

I'm still hanging around Takoradi, being completely and utterly lazy. Perhaps the meaning of life truly is having sand under your feet and giant fruit-based alcoholic drinks with funny straws? Tis a shame my sanctuary of sin shall be smashed into smithereens soon. (wow that is a lot of s-words). I have to head back out tomorrow and work to make gigantic corporations more bundles of cash that they do not need. How disappointing. However, all shall not be lost under the white warm sands, as I do believe soon I will be heading to Tema or Cape Coast! The days here have been long and demanding on my sandal clad feet. Trekking around various beaches, dancing with strangers and seeing the many sites of the local area are just some of the activities I've crammed ... read more

so, had the highlight of the ghana section of the trip today. we're stationed in Cape Coast and payed too much to take a taxi 30 minutes inland to kakum national park and their rainforest canopy walk set up by mountain climbers from vancouver. we payed five bucks each for the canopy walk and then did the extra hike with all the medicinal properties of the plants talked about and then had to pay another 4 bucks, but it was so cool. very rainforesty, the whole drive there and actually most of the time i've been in ghana i've been shocked at how much it reminds me of the caribbean; the architecture, the climate, the birds, the plants so crazy. so we walked up one valley wall to get to the top point where the canopy ... read more

Today was the big day I was going to do something touristy! I didn't get up very early after getting into 'The Da Vinci Code' which I hadn't read before. After a quick lunch of egg sandwiches on the roof I jumped into a taxi for the 40km ride to Kakum National Park. I got there for pretty much the last walk of the day, flashed my student card for my discount and hung around the museum waiting for my guide. We had a good chat about our lives while walking up to the canopy walkway a couple of Canadians had built 11 years ago. It was just us two which was great because if I was going to see any wildlife it would be now since I knew when to shut the hell up was ... read more

I’ve become a little frustrated this week. It is impossible to do anything here without being asked for money. I went out yesterday to do some street photography and accomplished nothing. Every time I try to photograph stuff people insist that I must pay them. I would be broke in a day if I paid everybody that I wanted to photograph. It does not stop there either. I wanted to photograph a stand of tomatoes in the market and some guy runs up and asks me what I am doing and I tell him that I am taking a photograph. He wanted to know what for. I told him for myself. He said that I must pay to take a photograph of the tomatoes. I just walked off. I’ve met a couple of guys since I ... read more

I am at Hans Cottage now. It is a beautiful place with all sorts of flowers and a pond. The restaurant overlooks the pond which has two large trees on two small islands. I went down for dinner and sat on the top floor to watch all of the birds that were flying around. There must be 300 small yellow birds living in the trees there. I was watching them fly down to the ground an pull out blades of grass measuring at least 1.5 feet. The one particular bird I was watching had been trying to weave the grass into his nest. I think he was adding a guest room. He was running into problems though. Another bird kept stealing the grass from him right after he began to push it into the nest. He ... read more