Cape Coast

This weekend was incredible. We went to two castles, the Cape Coast castle used by the British and the Elmina castle of the Portuguese. The irony of their beauty and horror was astounding. Some of the most beautiful places that I have ever been which created such suffering for so many people. I'll post pictures on facebook bc this blog thing is way too advanced for me. We then stayed in the Crocodile Botel (still not sure how a botel differs from a hotel or motel) which had real crocs under the restaurant/bar. Not such a great idea to have drunken people over a pond of man eating reptiles in my opinion... We had sweet palm wine and played drinking games as a group. Had to get up really early to go to the rainforest where we did a canopy walk through the trees. It was sooo high up and basically had just ropes to hold onto. For the rest of the day we went to the beach and collected shells before going back to the university etc for dinner. Not too shabby of a weekend. 730 class tomorrow though. Gross.