Coconut Grove Beach Resort Elmina

... deal in Ghana if some strange foreigner is holding someone else&#8217;s child)<br>So that was a fun 10 minutes or so holding a 2 year old and watching her point at all the runners in the parade. <br>Finally her mom, or whoever, came back smiled at me and then walked away with the little girl.<br>Talk about culture shock.<br><br>So about half an hour later we decided to run some more in the parade. <br>(they were making a huge circle in the village and did not appear to be ...

... the died, they remained chained to the living until they were sent onto the ship. Looking through the door of no return, the door where slaves passed on their way from the castle to the ship, it's impossible to imagine what went through a slaves mind when they left the castle, and their homeland, forever.<br><br> At a ceremony a few years ago, tribal chiefs from around Ghana posted a message to visitors of Elmina:<br><br>In everlasting memory of the anguish of our ...

Today, Alon and I ventured 15-minutes down the coast to Elmina. Our first stop was the Java museum, a dinky place with a fabulous curator and a surprising story to tell. In the 1800s, the Dutch had control of Elmina and also large patches of the Indonesian island of Java. The Javanese were feisty people and the Dutch were always going to war to keep them in line. Unfortunately, the Dutchmen sent to Java kept dying of tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow ...

... fort and it was taken by the Swedes in 1652. (The Swedes?? I know, I had no idea they were ever in Africa either) The Swedes lost the fort, too, and it changed hands five times in the next thirteen years until the Brits finally got a hold of it. The Brits turned Cape Coast Castle into a slaving fort par excellance, not that such things should be bragged about. The forst was the largest slave trading center in West Africa at a time when 650,000 slaves were ...

... fraktades vidare. Da hade dom suttit upp till 200 personer i morka kallare som inte vara storre an ca 30-40 kvm upp till 6 veckor och dom hade manga sadana rum. Man tror att ca 3 miljoner slavar togs till Cape Coast Castle och att ca 1 mil. dog innan dom kom pa batarna och 2 miljoner skeppades ivag. Hemskt! Idag ska jag aka till grannstaden och se ett annat slavstalle och jag ar i valet och kvalet om jag ska se Kakum National Park eller inte. Det finns inga djur dar mer ...

Hey Hey! I hope you've had a great weekend, because we sure did! On Saturday we visited the Nkruma musoleum, Ussher Fort and Ussher town as well as the national arts centre in Accra . In the evening we went to a lovely restaurant by the ocean called Next Door. They had great food and cheap drinks and the music was very good too. The only weird thing was that most of the guests were obrunies. Sunday was the big day however, we were up ...

Today is my last day of being 25 years old! In just 2 hours (Ghanian time), I will be 26 years old! I couldn't have asked for a better place to celebrate! This morning, I got up, scarfed down breakfast (which is the same every day, but I am not complaining: two pieces of toast, oatmeal, fruit, juice and a mini omlette) and packed my stuff to board the bus from Senchi Ferry to Elmina, which is on the Gold Coast of Africa!!! During the 4+ hour bus ride, we had ...

... Europeans brought to West Africa. Ghana has some extremely beautiful things to off** too. Most importantly, v**y tasty be** is half the price of that in Mali, Senegal... but according to our financial accounting we are spending the same amount of money on it. (Bridget Jones-esque note to ourselves: must check be** intake - waistlines seem to be expanding again!) On our first in Ghana, we sat in one of the local "Spots" and ord**ed a bottle of lag**.  While we supped up ...