First week of uni... lecturer strikes.
Trip Start
Apr 29, 2010
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Trip End
Aug 01, 2010
What I did
Cape Coast, Ghana
Friday, February 3, 2012
Decided to go travelling as none of the offices were open to register for our courses this week and the lecturers were on strike as well as some of the ground's workers who locked all of the class room doors! Great job guys...
We went to Bojo beach (pre-strikes) on Saturday which is a private beach resort island. Whilst we were in the sea a storm arrived and we ended up jumping in the waves whilst there was heavy rain and a sand storm on the beach!
Cape Coast was a nice change of scenary from busy Accra and I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, not two, not three but four vegetarian restaurants - finally no more rice and beans! We stay at Oasis Beach Resort for 10C a night - that's about £4 each! The waves on the beach were the strongest I've ever been in and threw us about quite a bit, its strange most of the locals are scared of the water...
We woke up for sunrise on both days in Cape Coast. It was amazing to see hundreds of patchwork sailing boats heading out from 5 till 10 in the morning to meet the other fishing boats out on the horizon under the rising sun! I think this is the first time that I've woken up for a sunrise and stayed outside all day until sunset - I feel like I've actually enjoyed a 'whole day'... that probably doesn't make sense.
After Kakum National Park me and Andrew split off to Winneba, a small non-touristy fishing town between CC and Accra. There was no tourism there, although we saw what looked like future building projects unfortunatly. I say unfortunatly because the beach front boasted miles of untouched shoreline and palm trees with a small fishing community living in wooden huts on the beach front. We were invited into one such house by a man called Brice although we didn't stay long because of the lack of understanding over the language barrier.
We stayed in the Winneba Resthouse which is an old Army House. On arrival the owner told us it was 100% secure due to its military history, whilst opening the front door made out of mosquito netting... In the front room a man was watching a video displaying bullet points on the development of foetuses... and in our rather large double room there was an A1 sized poster of Janet Jackson - overall quite a strange hostel but comfortable nonetheless!
