Kumasi

My program, ISEP, took us to Kumasi, located in the Asante region for a weekend trip. It is about four hours away from Accra and part of the road is under construction and is extremely bumpy, so bumpy that I hit my head several times on the roof of the van! We first visited a palace/museum where the Asante king lived for many years up until the late 1980's. There were lots of peacocks in the yard and in the trees- I had never seen one fly before, but they flew over 30 feet off the ground. Next we went to a cultural craft center, where, basically, they sell all of the regular goods at more expensive prices. We also went to Lake Bosomtwe, which was beautiful! There were these boats that were essentially planks of wood that float and you straddle. I wanted to try steering one, but they said no :( haha. We also went to a Kente cloth weaving factory and a place where we saw how to make the Adinkra ink that is stamped on the Kente cloth. Both were a lot of fun and neat to see. I bought two big pieces and several smaller ones.