Sisimbo Beach Resort

On our first weekend in Accra, Warwick University organised a tour to Elmina, Cape Coast and Kakum National Park.  Since Wendy and I had gone last year and because I had less than 24-hours between the end of term and the flight, we instead opted to take ourselves away for a weekend at the beach.  With the help of Cross Cultural Tours, we hired a driver, Kwame, who whisked us away to lovely, lovely Sisimbo Beach Resort.

If we would've planned things better, we would've stayed somewhere a lot closer because driving through the market town of Kasoa on a Saturday is the equivalent driving through the combined traffic of New York, London and Paris back-to-back.  

But Sisimbo was a truly peaceful paradise and entirely worth the drive.  

Never far from home

Fishing 

pre-teen with coconut and machete

Wendy and her coconut

spacious accommodation with jungle shower

We had a hell of an adventure on the way back when the presidential convoy rushed past us stopping traffic on both sides. Kwame took this as an opportunity to jump onto the back of it, zooming through the opposite side of the dual carriageway and past a backup traffic ten miles long.  Ace.