trips

Since there was no school the first week due to a teachers strike, I went on a 5 day trip with two of my friends. Our main destination was Bui national park, which is in the Northwest Region of Ghana. It took us two days of riding buses to get there. One of the highlights was getting to ride on top of a bus through rural roads, getting a good view of the passing scenery. We arrived, and found out that we had to hire an armed guard to escort us around the park. Poachers are dangerous I guess. So we camped on a ridge and got eaten by biting flies, and pitched our tent. That night we encountered a large storm, soaking us and all of our possessions. Our guard, somehow survived without a tent. The next day we hiked our soggy butts a few miles to a village, where we were taken in and fed fufu by the fire. We met a man who told us how the upcoming dam construction was forcing the whole village to move, with a government compensation of only 300 cedi. After listening to his story, we went on a canoe ride in the river, seeing birds and bugs and other wildlife. The are usually hippos there, but not at this time of year. We left at 5AM the next morning, and later arrived at a monkey sanctuary. There we toured the rainforest filled with monkeys and got to feed them. We entered a village, and got swept up in a local funeral celebration. Funerals here are big events with much celebration. We donated a few cedi to the believed family and met everyone important in the village including the chief. The trip continued with exploring waterfalls and bat caves.

School has finally begun, I think my classes will be interesting, but it is hard to understand the professors sometimes

Hope everyone is well

Love, Forest

Ps I hope to post pictures soon.