Amy’s adventures in Ghana

Last week a group of us travelled to Kintampo, about 3 hours south of Tamale to visit the waterfalls.  As it’s the end of the rainy season, it’s meant to be the best time to view them as there should be plenty of water.  We were a fairly random bunch - me, my "brother" Kailan, my colleage Adnan, Anirban, Eva and Sharon -  VSO volunteers and Matt a friend of a friend working in Ghana. 

Somehow we all managed to arrive in Kintampo withinn 5 minutes of each other which was fairly miraculous given Ghanaian transport. We took a taxi to the falls, about 5km out of town and I have to say I was really surprised by how spectacular the falls were.  There was a kind of smooth shelf under the falls that you could walk about on which then fell into a pool which was about knee depth.  So you could climb up the shelf and slide down into the pool.  The water was really heavy and standing under it like a mega power shower.  I found it quite hard not to fall as the flow of water was so strong. 

We stayed the night in a cheap hotel with bedbugs.  It rained really heavily over night so that when we visited the other waterfall in the area it was far too full and fast to swim, but looked and sounded amazing!   

Since I arrived back, Ghana has been experiencing an electicity shortage which has resulted in the government rationing power.  This means we have no power for 12 hours every 4 days.  Very annoying.  Last week when I came into work on Monday I was surprised that there was no power as it was not a scheduled "off" day.  Turns out the transformer that supplies our power has broken.  This meant we had over a week with no power in the office.   Simli Aid do not have a generator, although we did try to beg/borrow/steal one, with no luck.  Thankfully they have now fixed the problem and we have power again, woohooo!!  Lots to do, as I think tomorrow is an "off" day!