... Of course, I could now talk about some short trips, such as the the "Oda Big Tree" (the highest West African tree), the "Akaa Waterfalls" (where you have already seen photos), a canoe trip or trips to various beaches. I could about every little trip a blog entry written in the usual length, there would be 10 other entries. But I try in my blog to focus on the essentials here in Ghana - the people, the life, culture!
And I also want to remain relatively objective. In the trips personal experiences play a large role. To illustrate an example: Suppose
but the trip to the "Oda Big Tree". Another volunteer, it may not put this way: "[...] After we had eye is with the people at the entrance of the road are a price we ran a piece in the woods until we came over a small bridge . As he was then already - The Big Tree! He was really huge and we felt very small beside [...]". I would have as many more details to be related to pure, which in turn would give the reader a very different picture.
My version would sound more like: "[...] We were not prepared to have to penetrate so far into the forest, we were wearing only sandals almost all. That turned out to be a problem, but soon, because we often had to make big steps on ant trails of giant ants. The dense shrubs and trees on both sides of the krüppligen beaten track highly proliferated and were sometimes only single light beam through it. Despite broad daylight, nobody seemed to be on the road at dusk. That made it often difficult to discover the ants right away and so it did not take long before it was a couple of giant ants, are festzubeisen in my foot. At first I thought, to be entered into it in stinging nettles, but the burning felt different, more pungent. I let my eyes wander down, and noticed with alarm that the ants were still on my feet. Quick herunterzuschütteln I tried it, which did not succeed. Impatiently, I took my hand to help, but even a cursory wipe avail. In ants Widerd I pulled with the fingers from the skin, which had bitten deep into it with their big Beiszangen. I quickly tried to reconnect me to the group that was already out of sight. To whet the corner, I have found again. They were in the process of balancing on a small bridge . The bridge, which actually consisted of only a few wide wooden slats, seemed to shine, because it was the bushes somewhat lighter and the sun came out better hindruch. The more I approached the bridge, the more clearly I could see the number of ants on it - it was again the giant ants. Frustrated, I was once in front of it, wondering how I should cross the bridge at the best [...]"
Phew, so much I wanted to write not really! But I think you realize that you get my description to a very different picture of the trip. He sounds even more exciting than it really was. I have not exaggerated but added little or sealed (what Incidentally, for everything in my blog is). We were even just 36 minutes on the road. How do I know? (The difference between the recording times of the first and last photos). If I had described the trip from the front to back, it would sound like a really exciting day trip, but it was actually quite short and rather unspetakulär!
I want to convey a false image, and to future volunteers / travel enthusiasts who want to come to Ghana, not too much to anticipate, there is not typical of my trip reports. I even had her stories of a very different picture from certain destinations and was then disappointed so many times! have only told about the times (even If anyone has wondered whether I am actually not traveling) ...
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