The Ghana Coast
Thursday, April 26th, 2007There’s not so much to report of our recent travels. We’ve spent most of the last week or so in Cape Coast, Elmina and Winneba on the Ghanian coast, generally doing very little but enjoying relaxing and eating good food. There are a string of castles on the coast built by the Portuguese, British and Dutch during the early colonial era, so we checked out a few of those, including the St. George Castle in Elmina, which is the oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa (and, in fact, anywhere in the world outside of Europe and the old Roman Empire). We also went inland for a day to do a canopy walk above the rainforest of the Kakum National Park, which was a pretty cool experience too. You can see photos of all this stuff on Flickr here.
We’re back in Accra now, and Wendy, Lockie and I had a really nice BBQ at the house of the Australian High Commissioner last night for Anzac Day. Aussie Bob, another of our friends from our Dogon Country trek, is coming to town on Saturday from Cote d’Ivoire, so we’ll probably stick around to see him and watch the cricket World Cup final in our own room at Steven’s place (if Ghana’s chronic current electricity issues don’t disrupt our plans). We don’t know exactly where we’ll go next because we’re trying to see if we can change our flight a bit to get back to Europe a little earlier, but in West Africa things like that are easier said than done!
Nick