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Before 2nd semester started (SY 2002/3), we hopped
across the border to Ghana for a few days.
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A canopy walk at Ankusa National Park.
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The 'Door of No Return' at Cape Castle (a slaving
fort).
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The fishing village of Elmina.
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A beautiful day in a beautiful village seemed
like an ideal time to watch the fisherman bring in the days catch
while sipping a couple beers from a fortside vista. After watching
the fishermen we had a great dinner at a Dutch built 16th century
house cum hotel... and a few more beers. Robyn's still smiling here
because we haven't started to walk home yet- our beer befuddled
brains resulted in us getting totally lost -walking cluelessly through
dim back alley's with kids chanting 'brunnie! brunnie!' (white man!
white man!) and everyone looking dodgy. Fortunately, we got home
fine.
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The fisherman setting out for the day. The fisherman
are great - they sing to set the timing of their oar strokes. When
coming in they tie ropes to the boats and sing to set the timing
of the 'pulls' as they pull the boat up onto the beach over rolling
logs.
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Here Robyn's smiling because we've splurged for a better room
on our last night in Ghana at the beautiful Ankobra Beach. The big
$30 we spent was more than the combined 3 nights. Some of the features
we like best about this room were lack of mosquitos, bed bugs and
blood splots on the bed. In the previous couple nights I accumulated
about 30 bites of questionable origin (I prefer to think of them as
mosquito bites than bed bugs!) |