Okay, so T-Mobile's "international plan" for my BlackBerry apparently does not include any country in Africa. So... we're going to have to wait until we get to our hotel in Uganda before we can start sending daily updates (hopefully). Here's a summary of what we've been up to:
Friday - we finally arrived in Accra after almost 24 hours travel. William and Pamela took us to a nice dinner before taking us to our hotel. They set us up with a great place with a nice comfortable bed and air conditioning.
Early Saturday morning we set out to an area west of Accra. We saw Cape Coast and Elmina castles which used to be used in the international slave trade. We also went to Kakum National Park and walked across a 350 meter canopy bridge rigged up at the top of some really tall tress in the rain forest.
Sunday morning we went to a local Assembly of God worship service and spent the afternoon with William and Pamela's entire family at the beach. We finally got to catch up on sleep last night - slept for almost 9 hours!
Today we spent some time in the eastern region of Ghana. We visited Boti Falls and Akaa Falls (Akaa was much better, even though John got completely soaked!). On the way back we stopped at a hotel for some rice, chicken, and tilapia. All the Ghanian food is very spicy, and quite tasty! We finished the day at Aburi National Garden, where among other things we came across the famous Strangled Ficus tree - legend has it that in 1936 this tree strangled another tree. We examined the evidence and will post it on the blog soon - maybe tomorrow.
I'm quickly writing this at the Ernst & Young office before we go have dinner. Don't worry - we have a lot more to say and will share it with you soon!
Ekyire!
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we're glad to hear from you - sounds like a great trip so far!!!
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