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Travel Blogs from Cape Coast
A Day in Cape Coast (A Week of Drum Lessons)
Hey everybody. I'm down to my last week in Ghana (not nearly long enough time, but I'm going to make the most of it). I just wanted to update one last time from Africa (and probably another one from Canada).
This last week has been the most drumming intense yet. Everyday that I am in the village, I have a morning and afternoon lesson. I …
Adventures in Ghana: Accra and Cape Coast
Hello lovely ones,
After our Easter weekend, we continued with work Tuesday-Thursday. I was supposed to start my minor job (working in the dental clinic) on Friday. I had planned to go half a day there and then start my voyage to Ghana. Either way (due to rescheduling, etc.), I ended up almost going straight to Ghana. Therefore, I will …
Kakum National Park
It was an early trek this morning through the south end of the park. Our guide met us at 6:00 and the plan is to trek for 1 hour and spend another hour on the canopy walkway. This is the highlight of the park & the reason for many day trips here. It was built by Canadians in 1995 and is a series of bridges over the tree tops. My reading tells …
First travels around Ghana to a village on stilts
... it did make my bum go numb! The actual village is about 4-500 people and although they live in pretty ramshackle houses, they seem to be doing pretty well out of the tourist trade. Visitors make donations and buy their products. They all had their tvs blaring loud music because they got electricity 6 weeks ago, so it's still probably a novelty! We canoed back and had lunch at a Spanish(...) restaurant where we watched Wimbledon and I felt ...
Slavery
At around 11am we moved off from Beyin, the bus having managed to dig itself out of the sand it had been stuck in all night. If we discount getting lost the day before, this was the first of many calamitous moments involving the bus (or its crazy driver) which I'll talk about in due course. Either way, we spent four more hours on the increasingly smelly vehicle on our way to our next stop. It's in the Central Region, and it's a national park called Kakum. Here you'll find ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool