We've been travelling for just over a week now, and it's been going pretty well. From Takoradi we travelled up the west coast to a small beach resort called 'The Green Turtle Lodge'. We stayed in tents on the beach for two nights there, and it was amazing. During the day, we would just swim in the sea, sleep on the beach then play some beach volleyball. After a few stressful last days in Achiase, and the long travelling times, this was the perfect cure. For the first time in a while we could wake up whenever we wanted (which surprisingly only turned out to be about half 8) and just spend the whole day relaxing. The food was good, and quite cheap aswell, so costs were kept to a minimum because the tents were just 5cedi per person per night.

From Green Turtle we walked about 20minutes down the beach to a small village, where we met a woman who would drive us to our next place. This village was incredible because it was a small strip of land divided on one side by the sea, and the other by a lagoon, so there was a long wooden bridge we had to walk over to catch our ride. The water in the lagoon was crystal clear and there was a tall hill at the end of the village where we met the woman, which looked over everything. We hopped in the back of her pick up truck, and travelled about 20 minutes down a dirt track to an even more secluded beach resort. This place was run by a canadian man and his french wife, and they were both really nice. The place is called Cape three points, and it is the closest point on land to the centre of the globe (0,0 on the map) We spent one night here, and although we needed to wait until 9:15pm to have dinner, it was a really nice place, and the owners dad even offered to give us a lift to the nearest tro tro station so we could move on.

We then moved even further up the coast to a village called Beyin, which is near to the Ivorian border. Again, we stayed in a beach resort but the main attraction this time was to see the stilt village of Nzuelzo. We took a small canoe upstream for about an hour, spent about an hour there, then took the canoe back. This place was incredible, and its hard to imagine people living there all their lives, only coming back to land occasionally to trade goods. I've got some great pictures of the village, but once again, i can't upload any of them. So Ayman, that means that i can't video blog either.

We left Beyin at about 9am, and arrived in Cape Coast for about 5pm. It was a long trip, but it was well worth it because all of us love Cape Coast so much. The food at Sammos guesthouse is cheap and good, and the Oasis Beach Restaurant is a great place to be in the evenings. The girls had their hair braided, which took about 9 hours to do, and they all look hilar-... i mean great.

We're now in Accra, and everything has suddenly skyrocketed in price. For a magazine in the Accra Mall, its about 30cedi.. which is approximately 15 pounds. taxi's are expensive, and quite honestly, i can't wait to leave Accra. From here we will move east to a city called Ho, to catch a connecting tro tro to Hoehoe.

That's all for now, but i'll probably get back to an internet cafe in Tamale sometime next week

Ciao!