I see the sea

The road from Kumasi to the coast is a mixture of all sorts of roads. Some part you have to navigate around the holes, or stay behind a very slow truck which is zig-zagging. Other parts you can go as fast as you feel safe to go. The map in the Bradt guide turned out to have the wrong scale, so the 100 km from Cape Coast is actually a lot more than 100 km, a problem we would come across again on the last day of our holidays. Because of this and the fact that we missed the ringroad around Takoradi we arrived after dark in Busua. A good excuse to stay at a 4 star hotel in stead of the idyllic cottage hotel a few km further. The huge hotel was all empty except us and two people we saw at breakfast. It was not tourist season, but that is not a reason not to serve your guests and overprice the mediocre food. They almost got the concept of an infinity pool, unfortunately they built a childrens playtower right between the pool and the ocean.

The next day we drove not far to Safari beach lodge. Just as well we didn't do it in the dark half an hour slowly from hole to hole. The journey was worth it though. A nice semi-open free standing room with fan, eco toilet and outside shower.

Our Safari style room

open air shower

The owner remember a colleague staying there, the name didn't ring a bell, but when he showed us the name he was using the middle name and of course I don't know the middle name of all my colleagues. The only downside of staying there was the noisy ocean. It was not a constant rumble, but more a big wave every now and then, even though you know it, it still wakes you sometimes.

Hanging out

 On the way down we were offered various foodstuffs by the road - one we didn't manage to capture was the baskets full of giant land snails ...mmm protein