More About Ghana

These are some of the things that I have done since I last posted. After I went to Cape Coast Castle my mom and I went to Kakum National Park, a canopy walk/rain forest sanctuary place. We shared a taxi with a family that had a really cute 3 year old girl named Alex. She was adorable! After we did the whole Kakum thing we went to where a family made palm oil(on the same day, in the same trip). It was smoky because they had to boil the palm nuts that they used twice. After we saw that we went to a really touristy hotel for lunch where they had crocodiles. When we had finished lunch we went outside and pet a crocodile because the older ones had grown used to humans! One of the hotel workers somehow froze it(like a snake charmer, I think). The next day we went to Elmina Castle and came to Busua, a small fishing town. Elmina Castle is the same kind of place as Cape Coast Castle except it is bigger, was established earlier and was run by the Portuguese and later the Dutch, not the English. After we finished our tour we just came to Busua and did nothing really, really exciting for the rest of the day. Yesterday we justed stayed in Busua and did small things such as playing pool, swimming in a pool, walking on the beach and reading. It was overcast the whole morning and poured the night before. Today we went to a village on stilts called Nzulezo(In-zoo-lay-zoo). It is literally a village that is built on top of stilts. After we got to the destination we would leave from we canoed for a bit less than an hour. When we got there we met with the chief and he told us some of the history of the town. The people originally came from Mali and a magic snail(yes, I'm serious)told them where to settle. After that we went and walked along the main street. We stopped at a school and gave the children presents. After, we met with the vice-chief and gave a small donation for the school. Then we canoed back and took a long taxi ride to our hotel. Bye!