Today we got up and ate breakfast at the Moree Beach Resort, then took about a forty-five minute bus ride to Aunt Agnuse’s Beach Resort where we picked up a sack lunch. In Ghana a sack lunch is not what you expect in the U.S. it consisted of two medium sized tupper-ware containers filled with rice and chicken. Then we looked around this place a little bit, it was a very nice beach with nothing around it. Once we were done taking our pictures and getting the lunch we set off for the three hour bus ride to Nzulezu, the Village on Silts, which is a protected wetland.
Once in Nzulezu we ate our lunch in the shade of the palm trees, then got some life jackets and loaded into four canoes. We had roughly an hour canoe ride out to the Nzulezu Village. The ride was nice once you got used to how close you were to the water, and it had some amazing landscape. Once we got to the Village we toured the community and talked to the chief’s son who gave us a brief history of the village.
The villagers came from Mali to escape a war 500 years ago. The village is made up of 500 people. The community is almost entirely self supported by growing their food on the land next to them, and make everything else. Almost everything they eat is fresh. They do not have electricity, but they do run a generator to power radio’s and some TVs. If they want something from town they must be able to fit it into the canoe to transport to the village.
The children canoe into town everyday to go to school, with the exception of first and second graders who are taught in the village. It is surprising that most of the people who have grown up in the village stay in the village. The guide in our canoe left the village to get an education, but later on decided he wanted to move back which is not unusual.
When we got back to the bus we set off once again for Aunt Anguse’s beach resort to have dinner. We had a buffet style dinner which consisted of: plain rice, spicy rice, vegetable curry, beef, fried plantain, lobster, fried squid, chips (French fries), and fish. The food there was very good.
After we finished our meal we headed back to our hotel to once again try to sleep in the tropical climate.
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