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🤩 Elephants 🤩

Veröffentlicht: 02.09.2019

Shiraz, Magalie and me enjoying beer and sausage

I got tired during this super long barber session

This croco got some moss for camouflage reasons 🤣

Some homeless people really do look bad here

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So I uploaded some more fotos of the recent days. Some from the African market in Tamale like this one

This is how people travel who can't afford a Trotro.

I also uploaded more pictures from the crocodile pound in Paga, like this one where I pull it's tail.

Or this one where I take a bite off it's tail 🤣

Aaaaand I discovered the "ultra wide angle mode" on my smartphone - there are plenty of landscape shots..

Like this one with it's beautiful reflection on the water.

And also plenty of shots of the beautiful town called "Swopa" which I mentioned earlier and is a safe place for women. They do lots of painting and pottery there.

We left Shiraz place yesterday and I had to capture these adorable goats.

We arrived in Damongo where Ibrahim picked us up. He is the owner of the Orphanage where we were to stay the next two nights. He told us a bit about the work they do, it's really impressive! The majority of the children actually still has parents but are abandoned.. At first I was afraid if the place is going to be really sad but it quite the opposite. Super lively children, happy, singing, dancing and enjoying.

She was fascinated by Magalies hair 🤣

Then Abu, one of the people in charge at the orphanage showed us around in the village.

This is the oldest building in the village.

The people here make Shea butter themselves and sell it, you might know it, it's part of many pricey cosmetics.

Then we moved to the main attraction of the city, this mosque. It is very unique in the way it's built. It's also the oldest in Ghana and one of the oldest in west Africa.

Here are now some pictures of it

Obligatory selfie..

This is the men's entry

This door is for the Imam and only for him. Notice that the door is higher, so he doesn't have to bow down when entering.

This is the woman's entry

And this massive tree grew beside it. The top gets cut every year so he doesn't grow very tall.

Back at the orphanage. Everyone cares for the younger ones.

This is our food got prepared (rice with eggs)

These stones were toilets once.

The kids totally loved my devil sticks.

A better picture of the food beeing prepared, it's about to get dark.

Next morning at 6:30 we went to the Mole national park. Monkeys already greeted us on the streets.

Another tourist had a plastic bag with sweets. The monkeys attacked him together, coming from different sides, racing and jumping and just ripped the bag in pieces and collected all edible things before the poor guy realized what was happening. Never show food to monkeys 😂😂

This was the vehicle for our Safari.

Yes, we sat on top.

These monkeys are super lazy in making way.

An antilope, we saw dozens of them.

Some big bird in the tree, I forgot the name, can u spot him?

And there was an elefant in the water hole 😍😍

He made bubbles with his trunk, super cute.

And a second one on the land. He was super shy tho.

He tried to hide from us..

But we followed in safe distance (on foot now, by the way)

He attacked this poor tree multiple times.

One last look and

he joined his friend in the water.

We went back and saw more antilopes.

This is the view from the Mole Motel, a place many people stay for the national park. The two young elefants stayed together for hours and made bubbles in the water.

But eventually they left the water.

This slingshot is used by the motel personnel to intimidate the monkeys. If you don't lock your door of the Motel, they just press the handle down and search for food - also when people are inside!

I have heard stories that they even knock on the door when they are locked, so peopl open up and they just rush in.

The Safari on the Jeep was from 7 to 9. We decided to go for a walking tour from 15:30 to 17:30.

It rained in the meantime and the elefants come to the water hole to cool themselves down - but they don't have to when it rained, so our chances in seeing elefants were low. We did it anyway.

This dead tree looked really cool.

This was the bird watching station but often you can also see elefants or cocodriles from here - we weren't so lucky.

But we saw this nasty, poisonous caterpillar 🔥🔥🔥

Yee so far so good but not everything was nice that day. I ate some rice with tomato-chili sauce and really liked the flavour and put lots of the chili. It burnt but I'm used to hot food by now and enjoy it. But it was too much and led to diarrhea..

I took a nap in the shadow, since we had lots of time to kill between the safari and the walking tour. When I woke up, I lay in the bright sun, felt dizzy.

We then went for the walking and I felt pretty bad, my circulation totally broke down, had to rest several times and was afraid to black out.

I made it back to the motel, felt super shit, hot and cold at the same time, was thirsty and felt like vomiting, still got the shits, was super dizzy, had incredible headaches and my balance was pretty bad. All I thought was "please let it be just a sunstroke and not Malaria".

I had some Fanta to get a bit of sugar and went back to the orphanage, took painkillers, pills against diarrhea and went to sleep around 5pm (17:00). I woke up in the evening, they prepared food for me which I couldn't eat. I took more painkillers and went to sleep again.

Now it's 8:30 in the morning of the next day and I am already pretty good again. Some minor headache is left but that's all. I am pretty happy!

Now I'm going south with Magalie. We go to Cape Coast where our ways will split again. She wants to see the castles and check the area there, I'll go to Busua which is a surfers paradise and go for some wave surfing. I will probably not make it to Busua today so I'll spend a night in CC. This day is going to be pretty boring and I'll be staring out of some window most of the time..

So far, hope u guys are good,

Laurin

PS: I TOTALLY FORGOT, HERE ARE MORE VIDEOS OF THE ELEFANTS:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=12yLEEyDWJwCBld6H6bmPB9BaGHz8R-fZ

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