I spent this past weekend travelling around the Volta region with some other Abusua volunteers. The Volta region is located between Lake Volta on the west and Togo on the east and is known for its beautiful landscapes of mountain, jungle, and waterfalls.
We left Cape Coast at 4:45 A.M. Friday morning (my birthday) and arrived at about 2:30 P.M. We stayed at the Waterfall lodge, which overlooks the famous Wli (or Agumatsa) falls. We got settled in the hotel (and had a few drinks to celebrate my birthday) then rested for an early start the next day.
We started on Saturday by visiting some well known caves up a mountain range, outside the village of Likpe Todome. To enter the caves, we had to scale some sharp cliff faces with only a small guide-wire (or no wire at all) for safety (Figure 29). The caves were worth the climb up though as they were very interesting inside. Some even contained bats, which we took a group picture in (Figure 30).
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Figure 29. Climbing to the Likpe Todome caves. |
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| Figure 30. Inside the “bat cave”. |
We also saw some great views from the top of the mountain (Figure 31), including the neighbouring country of Togo.
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| Figure 31. Mountain-top view wiith Oli. |
On the way down we stopped at a beautiful, secluded waterfall (Figure 32). All in all, the trek took about 3.5 hours.
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| Figure 32. Likpe Todome waterfall. |
In the afternoon. We visited the famous Wli falls, which was extremely easy to access compared to the caves. The waterfall was absolutely stunning (Figure 33). I was able to swim at the base of the falls, which was very exciting (Figure 34).
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Figure 33. Me in front of Wli falls. |
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| Figure 34. Swimming at the base of Wli falls. Guess which one is me? |
On Sunday we travelled back Cape Coast, which took nearly the entire day. Overall the trip was a lot of fun and full of memories I will never forget.
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