ada foah
i went to the most beautiful place ive ever been this weekend. i went with my two roomates, simon and reuben and two girls from the german embassy, pauline and antonia. we left early saturday morning on a tro-tro (basically a van thats been hollowed out and stuffed with as many seats as possible., maybe about 18 people) and drove two hours east towards togo. we got off in the town of adafoah and walked through the village to the other side to take a water taxi from a guy named eric. it was basically a big canoe that we kept having to bail out.
we go twenty minutes down the volta river towards its delta with the ocean and arrive at this massive empty beach on a peninsula. on one side of the beach is the volta river and on the othr side is the atlantic ocean. there is a line of about 10 huts on the beach. there are no roads or anything to this place so there are no tourists and its pretty deserted except for some fishing villages a few minutes away. we paid seventy thousand cedis for a hut for a night (less than ten bucks) which fit two people. the hut was really a hut in every sense of the word. it had a bed and mosquito net with no electricity, and it was right on the beach so the floor was just sand. absolutely incredible. they have hammocks set up between palm trees so if you want to sleep in them you can too.
they set up a bonfire for the guests at night and they had lots of beer and alcohol for cheap. i learned some german campfire games which were suprisingly fun. we stayed up late around the fire and woke up early to the most beautiful day id seen since ive been here. the waves in the ocean were massive and the undertow was pretty dangerous but we were careful and kept from getting killed. to get the salt off we'd walk across the beach to the river and relax in the calm water of the volta river. they have barracudas in the river but we didnt see any thankfully.
simon and i got a guy from the "hotel" to take us down the beach to show us around some of the villages. whole packs of kids would follwo us around and say hello, over and over again. they were hilarious. if we turned around and said hello back they would go screaming to their moms. we met the chief fisherman whose name was gerald i think. the villagers spoke ewe but had some english too. we also went to a voodoo man's house but didnt go in because we hadnt brought a gift. we saw his voodoo sand man outside his house which he used to curse people, kind of. it was very cool.
anyway it was amazing and the beach was perfection, or as close to perfection as ive ever been. i did the whole weekend for about fifty bucks or less.
so, basically, if you happen to be in ghana for the weekend, go to ada foah.
we go twenty minutes down the volta river towards its delta with the ocean and arrive at this massive empty beach on a peninsula. on one side of the beach is the volta river and on the othr side is the atlantic ocean. there is a line of about 10 huts on the beach. there are no roads or anything to this place so there are no tourists and its pretty deserted except for some fishing villages a few minutes away. we paid seventy thousand cedis for a hut for a night (less than ten bucks) which fit two people. the hut was really a hut in every sense of the word. it had a bed and mosquito net with no electricity, and it was right on the beach so the floor was just sand. absolutely incredible. they have hammocks set up between palm trees so if you want to sleep in them you can too.
they set up a bonfire for the guests at night and they had lots of beer and alcohol for cheap. i learned some german campfire games which were suprisingly fun. we stayed up late around the fire and woke up early to the most beautiful day id seen since ive been here. the waves in the ocean were massive and the undertow was pretty dangerous but we were careful and kept from getting killed. to get the salt off we'd walk across the beach to the river and relax in the calm water of the volta river. they have barracudas in the river but we didnt see any thankfully.
simon and i got a guy from the "hotel" to take us down the beach to show us around some of the villages. whole packs of kids would follwo us around and say hello, over and over again. they were hilarious. if we turned around and said hello back they would go screaming to their moms. we met the chief fisherman whose name was gerald i think. the villagers spoke ewe but had some english too. we also went to a voodoo man's house but didnt go in because we hadnt brought a gift. we saw his voodoo sand man outside his house which he used to curse people, kind of. it was very cool.
anyway it was amazing and the beach was perfection, or as close to perfection as ive ever been. i did the whole weekend for about fifty bucks or less.
so, basically, if you happen to be in ghana for the weekend, go to ada foah.
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