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Elmina

Written by kevin

We took a shared taxi to Elmina for ¢4000 each then had minerals before going into St George’s Castle, again at the discounted volunteer rate. This time things were less organised, we had a look at the museum then wandered around by ourselves. It has more rooms than Cape Coast Castle, mostly being renovated. The old powder magazine is now full of bats. The museum has an interesting exhibition on the local culture, rather than the slave trade.
Marebec standing on a drawbridge in front of a whitewashed castle. A castle courtyard, flights of stairs lead up to the entrance to the governor's residence. The entrance to a dark cell with a thick wooden door. A skull and cross bones are carved above the doorway. Bats handing from a whitewashed vaulted ceiling, one flying past. A two-storey building sits in a castle courtyard, some tourists stand in front. Construction materials clutter the courtyard. Arched windows in a white building with the remains of decorative stonework around them. Cannons point over battlements toward a whitewashed castle on a hill

Elmina has a very busy fishing harbour as well, we watched boats coming and going under the bridge in front of the castle.
A chaotic jumble of brightly-painted fishing boats and people in front of open-sided sheds. Fishermen stand and sit in a brightly-coloured boat passing other, moored, boats on its way into the harbour. 'In Him is life' is painted on the side. A whitewashed fort sits on a hill above a fishing harbour.

We met Leo and Sarah again and had an early lunch. I had pan-fried lobster for ¢67,000 (£3.70).

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 28th, 2006 at 15:16 and is filed under ghana, travel, VSO.

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