Volta Region

Lilia and I took a trip to the Volta region. We left Accra Thursday evening and headed to Ho and stayed there for a night. We stayed in this really funny place where there was huge spiders in the bathrooms and no keys for the doors- they just lock from the inside. Let's just say I didn't take a shower and we only stayed for one night. Headed up to Hohoe the next morning and hiked Mt Afadjato, the tallest mountain in Ghana, but it is really only about 2,900 feet tall and took about an hour to go up. View from the top was beautiful, could see Togo to the east and Lake Volta to the west. Tons and tons of millipedes, that was the scary part. Next we went to a small town near the shore of the lake called Kpando to see a pottery village and two religious shrines. The pottery village was really neat, the women make beautiful, handmade sculptures and ceramics. The religious shrines were also neat, both had the 14 stations of the cross. The first one had a 25 foot tall statue of the Virgin Mary and the second had a rock that was naturally blue and the blue is believed to have come down straight from heaven. Next day we went to Wli Falls, which are supposedly the largest falls in West Africa, but I am not sure I believe that. They were beautiful, and it was raining while we were there, so the water level was really high. Our last stop was a mona monkey sanctuary which was very cool. The monkeys are so used to humans that you can feed them bananas. They will peel the banana and take it right from your hand- so cute!