Travel Day 115 - April 27, 2024 - 4,570 Steps
Another nice day off the coast of Africa.
No drab colors on the tugs here in Ghana.
Our very excellent guide for our excursion to a Cacao farming village.
Takoradi is the second largest port in Ghana and deals principally in exports with manganese and bauxite being the principal ones based on tonnage.
A fishing village. The main method of preserving fish is by smoking.
Ghana's people prefer to shop, not in larger supermarkets, but in the multitude of small shops found everywhere. Our guide explained the food is fresher in these shops and the other goods are of better quality and the shoppers know the owner who they are dealing with.
It's easy when you know how.
Cemetery.
Most of the trash is platics.
The platter does not go directly on the head.
At the farming village we were welcomed with a ceremony.
The village chief is in the white robe left of center.
The welcoming ceremony involved a ritual with palm wine ( in the large jug) and distilled sprits. Partly as a gift from the village and partly a gift we brought to the village.
Drinking the palm wine. It was actually quite good.
Having drank the spirits I followed the actions of the village elders and poured the last of it on the ground just as they had done. We were also the one's to drink from the same glass the village elders used. It's the old when in Rome thing and our guide came over and said we had done the right thing which really pleased the elders.
We weren't the only ones taking photos.
We never did understand whether being a painted chicken was a good thing or a bad thing.
Cacao beans drying in the sun.
Living the same way for generations.
There's always someone who has to be different.
The name of the village, Adiembra, Aowin, Western, Ghana.
Cacao tree
From fruit to chocolate is a long process.
The large chocolate companies work with the small farmers to improve the quality of the crop. Lindt is one of the brands of chocolate we sometimes buy in the states during our travels when Lily's Dark chocolate is not available.
Collecting palm sap which quickly ferments to become palm wine. Though one has to wonder what was originally sold in the containers used to collect the sap.
Building blocks are sun dried.
Laundry is sun dried.
Women's apparel shop.
Used large appliances shop.
Wall around a school.
Funerals are very elaborate and are often held quite some time after the death occurs, the body being refrigerated until the time of the funeral. In this case the death occurred o February 28 with the services to be held on May 4th and 5th.
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