Back from the Beach

Sorry for the extended absence from the blog. I traveled around 5 hours west to a portion in the country where I had no electricity much less internet. I took a bus to Takoradi which is the third largest city in Ghana and is about a 40 minute drive from the beach area there. The beach there is amazing in both beauty and its swimmer friendly current. The first place I went to is called Busua Beach and it is a tiny little place that has about 5 or so places for sleeping accomdation, one local pub, and the rest is part of a small tiny village. I stayed there for three nights in a small lodge called Busua Inn which is owned by a nice French couple. It is right on a beautiful beach with a lovely island about half a mile away in the water. I went to meet my friend Fabio there who comes to Ghana every year from Italy and has a well deserved repuation as the most cheap person, ever! He is known everywhere he goes as the guy who won't ever buy anything at a restaraunt. It was quite funny. He also walks around Africa with an esspresso maker from home as well as he haggles his way across the tiny market in order to buy himself supplies to make Tomato sauce for his fish which he buys and then eats over three days! After Busua beach I headed to another beach with a few British people I met. The name of the second beach has no name and is simply known as the Green Turtle Lodge which is a small few huts built on the beach 4 years ago by a young British couple. The place has no electricity and the electricity that does exist there is for light in the eating area and heat for the kitchen and it supplied by solar power. About half a mile from the Green Turtle Lodge is a small village called Akwibba of about 2,000 people that has no electricity, industry, or anything else. The village is the only inhabited place next to the lodge for 30 kilometers. I along with my friends John and Nick went often to the village to play with the kids. Everyone there is very friendly and the kids surround you and beg you to play with them until your energy is drained. My friend Nick opted to buy a big sack of small water bags to hand out to the kids which turned into a near riot between the kids as they simply ripped the bags apart as they tried to claw them from one another. In retrospect it was probably not the best idea to bring water as stronger kids simply took it from the weaker kids. Now I'm back in Accra, the capital, and will be heading somewhere in the next day or so that will hopefully have some electricity as well as some internet to go along with it. Kids dancing (and punching at village)
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