Cape Coast Castle

Not many weekends left now and so I wanted to make a visit to the Cape Coast castle, this time to actually go inside rather than just around, and now even more so that Obama and family had been and made it so famous!

Cape Coast being reasonably close, its not too hard to make it in a day trip so left Accra at a reasonable 10am and made it in by 12pm to Cape Coast.

Having already been in Elmina castle, which is a few kms down the coast from here, I expected similar but this one even though it looks the same size, seems a lot bigger from the inside.

There are also a lot of Obama touches.....apparently they painted it for his arrival, although you can't see huge evidence of this until you see old photos of when the walls were more black than white. But he has layed a wreath in memory and also there is a plaque which someone has managed to throw up pretty fast, he was only there like a week ago I think it was....

So we finished at the castle and still had some time left in the day before making it back to Accra, so headed down to Elmina which is a nearby fishing village with another castle, but this one I had already been into so we just walked around the village instead.

The rainy season appears to have magically stopped now which is nice, the weather is still reasonably cold (24C) so its a good mix, but I think the temperature will start to rise again fast of the rain has stopped.

The home to Accra, in one of the more distracting tro tro rides I've been on. They always like to play music...mainly religious music....but this was LOUD, and then if the music is loud the people like to compete by seeing who can talk the loudest over it.....which in all does not make for the best sleeping conditions when all you want to do is sleep.

Back to Accra, and farewelling lots of friends at the moment, it seems to be the time when a lot of the people who I arrived with are heading back as well, so its a big changeover of interns.

Now with my time left, just fitting in going to all the places I haven't been in awhile and enjoy, buying up the last of my Ghanaian souvenirs which I can manage to fit into my bag to take home.

So three weeks this moment, I'll have just landed at Frankfurt airport......

Photos of the castle etc. http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/20090718CapeCoastCastle#