Easter Break.
Motto: One step at a time.
Plan of Action: Go to Eastern Region of Ghana where there is a huge celebration and Paragliding festival for Easter around and on the Kwahu Platau with Liza and Nisha
What Actually Happened (in super brief format – I’ll outline the weekend, and then as I feel like it, and have time I’ll toss little stories into my blog entries. Feel free to ask questions)
Friday:
Circle (main station in Accra)
Got on a bus going to “Easter”
Atibie
Taxi to top of Kwahu Platau
Bought tickets
Taxi to Mpreaso
Shared taxi to Kwahu Tafo
Met Louis, Prince, Raymond, Albert
Taxi to Buruku
Hiked the mountain
Fell into a tree
Lost phone
Back to the road by sunset
Hitchhiked to Tafo in full Yam Truck
Met Ross and Astrid
Stayed in overpriced hotel [but it DID have running water]
Saturday:
Mini hike to Mini-but-awesome-Waterfall with Ross
Taxi to Adowso
Motor/fishing boat/canoe across one river of Lake Volta
Tro-tro from Ekye to Donkorkrom
Taxi to Agordekye
Looked at Lake Volta again
Bananagrams
Taxi to Donkorkrom
Met Sam
Great fufu and soup
Hung out with the whole town, little boys and live music
Slept in small, but super perfect room in Genesis hotel
Sunday:
Tro-Tro to Ekye
Ferry across river/lake volta
Boat to waterfall in Oworobong
Waterfall too far away; saw Oworobong village instead
Boat back, stop in Sambhia village on the way
Shared taxi to Mpreaso
Follow Ernest to Mpreaso high school
Rent tent
Get water, get clean
Hang out with what must have been all of Ghana in the streets of Mpraeso
Monday:
Taxi to top of Platau again
Jump off a cliff attached to a pilot and parachute
PARAGLIDE
Land.
Ride in the back of a pick up truck with a South African pilot, Nisha and a bunch of chutes up the mountain
Shared taxi down the mountain with mysterious ex-fed, ex-pat from New York living in Achimota
Eat rice
Tro-tro from Mpraeso to Nkawkaw
Stairwell of a bus from Nkawkaw to Koforidua
Shared taxi from Koforidua to Madina
Tro-Tro from Madina to Circle (in Accra)
Taxi from Circle to home
The. Best. Adventure. Ever.
We had a great, whirlwind of a time – we literally didn’t have a plan, and it couldn’t have worked out better!
wow...AGAIN!!! Liz, don't you ever meet girls on your travels?! Paragliding....ex-pat..ex-fed...REALLY seriously?!! Sounds like a wonderful time I'm glad everything worked out and you are back.
ReplyDeleteLove Dad
Did you get hurt when you fell into the tree? How exactly did that "falling into a tree" thing happen? Love you, Mom
ReplyDeleteAstrid was a girl, and we did meet a lot of women (Rose, Florence, among others) that were really protective of us. Travelling as three girls, people in general were really really kind and protective of us. So many women called us back after we had walked away just to tell us to be careful. One man we met from Cincinnati visiting family called us periodically through the weekend to make sure we were alright. It was really great on all fronts.
ReplyDeleteAs for the tree...well. We were on top of a mountain, and needed to get down before the sunset. So we decided to go straight down. I was trailblazing, and wound up in a tree. That's a story that'll get posted at some point, because it's a good one.
:)