Pictures between Cape Coast and the Northern Trip
Fort William: A slave fort near Cape Coast that is under renovation. There were archaeology students from the United States working there.
My dinner one night. It was actually delicious! A lot of people were proud of me that I ate food with a face :)
The inner courtyard of Elmina Castle in Cape Coast.
The Door of No Return
Me on the suspension bridges at Khakoum National Park. It reminded me of the Capilano Suspension Bridge, but way more awesome! They were built by British Columbians!
Visiting a kente weaving village. Kente is woven only by men, and it is done in long narrow strips. It's gorgeous!
Another view. This give an idea of how long the strips are.
One of the waterfalls we visited. We got to swim by these ones, and it was absolutely phenomenal. The water was so powerful that you couldn't actually get close to the falls themselves, and the mist from the impact of the water flew over the surrounding rocks. Amazing!
Me and Logan :)
Feeding monkeys at a monkey village!!!
A cute little puppy outside of someone's house
A fetish priest. Although African Traditional Religion has been somewhat ousted by the presence of Christianity and Islam, it is still a very strong undercurrent. People often believe both traditional religion and Christianity or Islam or else they sort of meld the two together.
The Odwira Festival in Akropong. The woman with the bowl on her head is possessed by ancestral spirits and is bringing food to sacrifice to them. She is most likely carrying yams.
When chiefs and queenmothers are in festivals and parades, they always wear very beautiful, ornate, and expensive clothing and accessories. This is the chief of Akropong, and the boy in front of him is wearing the Odosu on his head. The little boy is there because his soul is pure.
South African Wine...enough said!
Baboons! These were friendly ones, not the scary ones you always read about.
The obrunimobile! ('obruni' is the Twi word for 'white person'). This is our Toyota Coaster bus that we have spent hours and hours and hours in. It feels like our home away from home!
We visited a witches' village. Women who are accused of being witches are brought here to live. They raise their families there away from the oppression of their hometown, so there are lots of kids around. One of the smallest kids decided that Logan was his favourite obruni for the day, and his hand barely wrapped around one of Logan's finger!
Roland and Tina watching a cute little kid while we were listening to the women talk about their experiences at the witches' village
A storm rolling in up north, just outside of Yendi
Shea butter! Handmade and unprocessed. It is so moisturizing! I bought a giant lump of it for only one cedi (about 70 cents).
Me, Katie, and Megan pretending to be the witches from Macbeth while stirring the shea butter.
Downtown Tamale on Canadian Thanksgiving. We were sitting at a rooftop restaurant eating chicken and yam chips with ginger malt beer as a semblance of thanksgiving food :)
A sheep at the market in Bolgatanga. He did not look amused.
The Ghana border from the no-man's-land between Ghana and Burkina Faso
The border of Burkina Faso! Technically, I have crossed it, but not into official Burkina Faso, just into the no-man's-land.
Me sitting on a crocodile. Isn't that wild? He was 98 years old, and we got to watch him swallow a chicken almost whole about 10 minutes after this video was taken.
Me and the elephant. We were actually that close to an elephant! So amazing! They are huge and they make such crazy sounds. This one didn't really follow any semblance of a path. He mostly just crashed through the bush, and it got out of his way pretty quick. So did we, when he started walking towards us!
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