Mighty Victory Hotel Cape Coast

... t see many whites because when we first got there a bunch of people were grabbing our hands saying “Aay! Abrouni! Ackwaaba!
(abrouni is the meaning for white person in twi and ackwaaba means welcome and referring to someone as abrouni or obbodubi (which means black person) is totally fine and in no way offensive in Ghana)
(as far as I can tell anyway)

So for awhile we just stood in the crowd of people that were watching all the running.
We were ...

... Yes.
The canopy walk was seven of those bridges strung together through the rain forest.
They had to have been at least thirty feet up in the air but it was hard to tell because the jungle was so thick you could not see the actual ground.
IT WAS AWESOME.
And by awesome, I mean so scary it was exhilarating.
The bridge was only slightly wider than one of my feet and when I moved the bridge moved. However, I was not the only person ...

... br>Very encouraging.

But the hotel itself was pretty impressive.
There was a pool.
And a hot water heater. This was ridiculously exciting because since I have been in Ghana, I have yet to have a hot, or even luke warm shower.
Unfortunately our hot water heater switch was out of commission. They were “working” fixing it.
Crushing.
We also had a t.v. and a small refrigerator that were exciting until we discovered that they too were being “worked ...

... out, over the top of the rainforest, makes it hard to believe how anyone could destroy something so beautiful (we saw a small area of clear cut forest). Also, looking down (through the mesh barriers), makes you hope that the supporting cables don't give way. After enjoying some octopus left-overs, an African picnic, we went to Elmina Slave Castle. This was a very disturbing place, that raises a lot of questions about how people treat each other. We had an amazing tour ...

... have a look at but it was the quantity and type of fish that was amazing. One of the fish I spotted looked like a rather rare Thresher Shark, its fins had been removed for sharkfin soup. Others spotted marlin and even a couple of Dolphins were spotted on the fishing boats, they were quite angry at the group being there, I guess the negative publicity it might cause. Well, this tuna was definitely not Dolphin free.



Next on the list was another coastal ...

... they attacked with cannons from a hill pathetically nearby. The Portuguese, I guess, were looking for threats from the sea and totally ignored their own backyard. From here, the history follows that of Cape Coast, the atrocities of slavery. Architecturally, the fort is much more impressive than Cape Coast and you can almost imagine that the governor found it pleasant living on the fourth floor with ocean breezes coming from every side. No such luck for those below.

... och bikini men misstankte att jag skulle fa en tuff stund pa stranden sa jag tog bara med mig boken. Vit tjej och ensam pa stranden lockar killarna fr Ghana som flygor till en sockerbit. Jag laste en halvsida i boken sa stod en kille bredvid mig och ville bli min van. Det ar inte ens smickrande att bli uppraggad av en 22 aring. Hur tanker dom? Sedan borjade den gamla vanliga visan, ta i hand, presentera sig, vill veta allt och sa efter lite prat sa kommer det som alltid ...

... above ground on a rope bridge above the trees. It was nice to have a little walk in he forest, and we saw our first rain for 2 months!!!! The next day, we visited Elmina, another town along the coast just 15 km from Cape Coast, where the Dutch had another fort, and 15 million peole were sold into slavery. Again, the visit was harrowing. We spent the remainder of the day visiting Elmina, before catching the bus to Accra.