Having started my day with a fried egg and avocado sandwich, I am about to embark on a weekend trip to the Volta region of Ghana! I'm going with 3 of my friends and I think it will be a good group of us. Tonight we'll be staying in a village at the monkey sanctuary, and tomorrow at the waterfall lodge. After our morning tour of feeding monkeys tomorrow, we'll ascend the hills to Wli falls, the tallest waterfall in Ghana (and all of West Africa?). We've had to postpone this trip twice, so this is our third attempt and I could not be more excited to get on our way!
I've been on two beach trips and spent a night in the rainforest, but those have all been really spread out so I'm just very ready to get out of bustling Accra and off campus.
I can't believe it's April 1st! I'm more than half way through my stay here, and the final exam schedule has been released. I have three exams pretty spread out in May, so I think I'll be able to do more traveling then. Upcoming trips I hope to take in the next two months are: Togo+Benin, Northern Ghana, and Mole National Park. I also want to get to Cape Coast once more, which is an easy weekend trip. And there will be plenty of time for day trips to the beach. I just really want to make the most of my time here. I'm going to work harder at budgeting out my everyday expenses to spend less so that I have money for travel. And traveling here is really not that expensive, our travel cost and accommodations for this whole weekend shouldn't cost more than 30 cedis. But I also have to keep in mind that I'm going to Belize in June so I have to save up for that, and also try not to be totally broke by September.
Being here has made me feel so so fortunate for the opportunities I have to travel and see the world. And it has really put my life in perspective; realizing that for some people, all they know is the 30-mile radius around where they grew up.
No comments:
Post a Comment