Today Emmanuel picked us up bright and early and we drove a
few hours north, through Techiman to the village of Kranka, a site that past
Pavlis students have visited and expressed interest in working with. There we met with the Chief, who
accompanied us for the rest of the day.
He told us about a community ICT center that had been opened within the
last year with twenty desktop computers!
We hope to allocate some of the books in our shipment of supplies to
this center.
Our first tourist stop of the day was at the Boabeng-Fiema
Monkey Sanctuary, a well-established presence in the Ghana tourism
industry. The welcome area is very
well-kept, with a guesthouse and an office where you pay for entrance and sign
the guestbook. Our guide, Brandon
was a volunteer who had just arrived a few weeks ago from Ontario, Canada. It was fun to talk with him and he was
very enthusiastic about the sanctuary!
Right at the beginning of our walk through the sanctuary we
were able to see Colobus monkeys very close up, in the lower branches of some
trees right by the path. These
monkeys are usually much harder to see and never interact directly with
humans. They are quite large and
have amazingly long tails! We also
had the chance to feed some Mona monkeys, which are the same type as we got to
see at the Duasidan sanctuary where we are doing our project.
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| A Colobus monkey |
The whole group got to climb on and in a ficus “tree”, which is actually a parasite that grows around a
tree, eventually killing it. In
this case the original tree had decayed away, leaving a huge cylinder to climb
through! We all got in on a good
group photo. Brandon was also a
very helpful guide in that he is a very good photographer! The other cool tree
we saw was a conglomeration of trees and vines and we had a cool photo shoot
there too. Before we left we had a
chance to stop at a local gift shop to buy a few carvings and masks.
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| The group in the Ficus tree |
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| Group with Emmanuel in the conglomerate tree |
Our second tourist stop of the day was Kintampo Falls, a set
of three waterfalls! The first
stage was pretty interesting, with the water surging over a huge rock
outcropping. There were a few
holes in the rock where water would also gush through. The second stage was small, but the
third stage was very spectacular!
We walked down 152 steps to the base, where there were a handful of
Ghanaians already enjoying the falls.
We didn’t waste much time getting down to our bathing suits and jumping
in too! We climbed and slid in,
around, and behind the falls for about 45 minutes, having the time of our
lives! Best. Water. Park. Ever.
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| Group with Emmanuel at Kintampo Falls |
On the drive back, we picked up the Chief again and dropped
him off close to Kranka, then made our way back to Sunyani, all tired out from
the day.
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