Breakfast is accompanied by weaver birds - they had been there when we had dinner the night before. At breakfast they were all very busy and noisily so too. Some were happily weaving into their nests as well as just making a noise. We did see one crocodile too, though not in the swimming pool, I'm pleased to say.
We drove further north from this hotel to the Kakum National Rainforest, a small pocket of rainforest illustrative of the vegetation that had at one time covered a large area of Ghana. My school friend is not keen on heights, so instead of the canopy walk where you walk on rope ladders between the trees at a height of about 30 metres, we did a nature walk instead, which proved most interesting. We had a guide to ourselves who walked us around a forest area, explaining a lot about the different plants we saw. Their medicinal properties were well known and really interesting - some were made into a tea, some had the bark made into a drink, others were rubbed on wounds etc. It is of course a remarkable resource in so many ways, and worryingly damaged by man too quickly. We had to avoid treading on ants which marched across the path, but generally there were far fewer insects than perhaps we would expect.
From there, we drove back along the coast road to Accra, stopping for lunch and to buy three delicious pineapples on the way.
We drove further north from this hotel to the Kakum National Rainforest, a small pocket of rainforest illustrative of the vegetation that had at one time covered a large area of Ghana. My school friend is not keen on heights, so instead of the canopy walk where you walk on rope ladders between the trees at a height of about 30 metres, we did a nature walk instead, which proved most interesting. We had a guide to ourselves who walked us around a forest area, explaining a lot about the different plants we saw. Their medicinal properties were well known and really interesting - some were made into a tea, some had the bark made into a drink, others were rubbed on wounds etc. It is of course a remarkable resource in so many ways, and worryingly damaged by man too quickly. We had to avoid treading on ants which marched across the path, but generally there were far fewer insects than perhaps we would expect.
From there, we drove back along the coast road to Accra, stopping for lunch and to buy three delicious pineapples on the way.
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