This last weekend, Kirby, Jake and I all travelled to the beautiful Cape Coast, and it was easily a few of the best days i've spent in Ghana.

We arrived on Friday afternoon and took a taxi straight to our hotel. We checked in, then went to the small restaurant on the roof which over looked part of the town and out to sea. We had chosen this hotel partly because the girls had been here last weekend, but mostly because of their western on the menu. We all chose egg and cheese toasted sandwich's and and they were really good. We spent an hour or so up before deciding to go to the Cape Coast Castle which was about 5mins away. We got there at about 4pm and luckily caught the last tour.

The first part of the castle we saw was the cell where they kept rebellious slaves. It was a tiny room, about 10 metres squared, but it was used to keep about 50 slaves in, who would all stay in the pitch black and suffocating heat until they starved to death. I don't usually get claustophobic, but being in there was hard because its difficult to imagine that it had actually been in use.

After this, we saw the male dungeons, female dungeons and the "door of no return", where the slaves would exit to board the boats where they would sail to America. It was incredible being there, and although you really feel like a tourist with your camera round your neck and more white people round you than have been in a month, we still definitely needed to visit it.

We then walked down the beach and stopped at the Oasis Beach Restaurant. We took a table which was right by the beach and luckily they had pizza on the menu which all 3 of us ordered. This place looks like the typical cliche paradise beach setting. It was incredible and we ended up coming here the following night aswell because it was so amazing.

On saturday we went to Kakum NP and walked across the canopy walkway which is 100ft above the jungle floor. The bridge rocked as we walked across it, and we got to spend a little longer on it than anyone else because the ghanaian woman in front of us was crying the whole way. There were incredible views at the highest point, and we all have some great photos. Unfortunately we were unable to see any monkeys or forest elephants that have been reported there, but it didn't really matter.

On our way back to the hotel from Kakum, we passed 'Hans Cottage' which is a hotel and crocodile sanctuary. This place was also amazing, and for just 1 cedi (50p) we could go in and take a look around. We walked around to the river bank and there was a woman sat down on a cheap plastic chair with a big stick who welcomed us in. In front of her were 2 large crocodiles that were easily 6ft in length. I asked whether i could touch it and she said come round the back of it, and don't touch it in the wrong places". The skin is so tough and its very smooth. After this we took a pedal boat out into the pond and the sides of it were worryingly low, but we all had a great time there. It was a great find since we hadn't planned on going there.

So that was our weekend and i'm going to try and blog a bit more often, but between lights off, travelling, and the frustratingly slow internet, it can be quite difficult.

Thankyou for all the comments aswell, i am reading them, and if you leave some questions on there ill try and dedicate a post to answering them all.