Han's Cottage Hotel Cape Coast

... picture but I will do my best (while I attempt to upload pictures)

This festival was a mixture of:
Halloween.
a marathon.
A parade.
An out of control mosh pit.
And cross-dressing day.

When we got there a huge mob of people were running down this dirt road. It seriously looked like a way more crowded, less fast version of the Chicago Marathon.
I was with three other international students two of whom were white and I guess Teshie didn ...

... Park is famous for their canopy walk.
(the canopy walk was quite possibly one of the coolest things I have ever done/will do)
To best describe the canopy walk (seeing as uploading pictures is not something Ghana is quite ready for yet) picture those movies where people are getting chased through the jungle and then they come upon those bridges that are really super narrow and held up by ropes.
George of the Jungle style if you will
Cape Coast, Ghana reneemarie

... it was only about three feet high. (easily jumpable if you ask me)
So why were the people who were running the hotel charging 1 cedi for people to go and pet the crocodile?
I guess the bigger question was why these fools were actually going to pet the crocodiles.
But to each his own, I just happen to be a big fan of living.
The crocodiles were real tame and they told us that the only time a “problem” arose was when two male crocodiles were on the same piece of ...

... die.
(and I thought the smell in the dungeon was bad, holy cow)

It was a real interesting place to visit. I had never thought that something like this exists in Africa.
When Obama came to Ghana in July he visited the cape coast castle and there was a plaque there for him. Plus the guide that gave us our tour was the same guy who gave Obama his tour.
Holler.


(there is more to this whole weekend trip story)
So…to be continued I suppose.

... it was changed to, JESUS LOVES COCK.



The drive out of the resort bought with it the hassle of holding the power lines above the height of the truck using a broom (thank goodness the rubber tyres make it somewhat safe to do this). Probably all the same wires that we had knocked down the couple of days previously. Our destination was the fishing village of Dixcove. It has a small fort built by Europeans a couple of hundred years ago which we went ...

... along. Guess we know how they start teaching English here. I have learned much the same conversation by rote in French. At length, we arrived at the castle (such a good fairytale line!) Saint George's castle, to be precise, the oldest extant European structure in sub-Saharan Africa. Construction was begun by the Portuguese in 1482, the first nation on the scene of the bustling hot spot this area would become. The fort passed to the Dutch in 1625, however ...

... pa att vanda sig ut och in. Vidrigt. Efter det sa har jag med mig buteljerat vatten till frukosten som jag ber dom anvanda. Vill inte ens fundera pa vad dom kallar mig i koket. Igar gick jag ner till stranden for att andas lite harlig luft och lasa. Det var lite mulet och ganska trevlig temp. ute, ca 30 grader och eftersom folket som bor har inte solar eller badar och turisterna ar fa sa finns det inga direkta sol och badstrander. Funderade ett tag pa att ta med mig ...

... and then brought to male or female dungeons, where they stayed for 2-3 months cramped together with no light and no sanitation before being boarded on the ships. It was inhuman. We both felt uneasy just staying for 5 minutes in the dungeons. Some people who did the tour with us didn t feel well and had to go outside. After visiting the Fort, we went to visit a tropical rainforest park called Kakum, where we walked 20 ...