Tro Tro Trip

Boti Waterfalls and Aburi Botanical Gardens

Over the weekend we made a two hour visit to a village called Aburi in hot and sticky Tro Tros. A Tro Tro is a Ghanian bus which cost around 1.50 Cedes, around 70p in English money.

On the route there we saw three funeral processions along the roadside. Here, funerals happen over a period of three days and include whole villages and people from all over who wear red and black.

First stop was the Botanical Gardens where we eventually found the famous 150 year old tree with webbed trunk/base. There was a wedding being prepared for and a traditional church celebration taking place. We ventured down various paths and encountered a giant African millipede and multiple lizards. We also met another English group from London who took this photo of us in an abandoned helicopter in the middle of the gardens!

Next stop was the Boti waterfalls, the second biggest waterfalls in Ghana, with a 33m drop! We ate Plantain crisps as we climbed down 250 steps to the wonderful waterfalls and paddled in the refreshing water at the end. ☺

While we were paddling in the waterfall, Megan was proposed to by a Ghanian man and had to create a boyfriend to divert attention so he just took a photo as a memento instead!!

Tomorrow we are back to teaching for the morning and then we plan to visit the art museum in the afternoon which is in the centre of Accra, a 20 minute Tro Tro ride away.

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