So holiday weekend, it was May Day which is apparently a workers holiday thing similar to I suppose when we have Labour Day.
Three day weekend so we went to Western region beaches which are further away but generally much cleaner because there's less population around.
We were quite out nin the middle of nowhere, made it more difficult to get to as taxi drivers could name their price much easier, but we made it eventually, detouring first, pretty much without completly menaing to, through the village of Dixcove where there is a fort/castle although not as big as the main ones in Central region, but still nice and well looked after.
There was even attempts as building a hotel next to it, as can be seen from half finsihed buildings and an empty swimming pool.
The place we ended up however is on a nice empty piece of beach, but still a village was a 20min walk away if we needed cheaper food and water.
The water was quite rough, plenty of waves here but it was nice once you were out past them and good relax, although it was a good bit of exercise swimming in and out through the current.
The place we stayed was pretty laid back, all solar power and rain water etc etc, but I'm pretty sure they did have a generator in case!
We walked down to the village one day to have a look around, and it was placed in the best position possible, on a piece of beach between sea on one side and a nice calm bay on the other side, with a lagoon that went up into a river, just sad that some of it was ruined by the rubbish that was dumped and washed up, plastic bags are really the worst thing ever for this country!
Had a bit of rain Sunday morning, but not for long, so was able to come home without getting wet this time, and as a bonus it made the temperature much cooler for travelling, and the journey was actually made quite fast.
Photo at top is the village at Dixcove, looking out to the sea, more photos at
http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/20090503DixcoveAkwidaaAndGreenTurtleLodge#
2 comments:
You always seem to have 3 day weekends!! I was also going to say mean things about your typos but have decided against it.
Sounds interesting and I just read the Ghana funeral too, fascinating.
I haven't had that many three day weekends....the last was Easter and you had that too!
Haha as for my typing, well yeah I should proof read but can never be bothered sorry, so just be glad I write :)
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