I cannot believe we are already in week three!! Time is absolutely flying by! A month from Wednesday Sara and I will be leaving Cape Coast to travel throughout Ghana for ten days – insane!! This weekend was really great: Olivia (a gap year student from South of London), Louise, Sara and I traveled to Nzulezo, a village on stilts. It was a five-hour trip from Cape Coast by tro-tro. Tros are basically VW vans that are used as an inexpensive mode of transportation between cities. They are quite an experience though because they cram people in and are pretty hot and a bit miserable for five hours. But we survived our first real tro journey! We were staying in Beyin Beach Resort, which is conveniently next to the Nzulezo Visitors Centre, and a beach resort with a lot of character and things we now consider complete luxuries (chocolate bars, hot water, coffee, even Monopoly!!). Saturday morning we went to the stilt village. Nzulezo lies on the fresh-water Lake Amansuri about 5 km from Beyin, an hour canoe ride. The village houses about 500 people and is one solid construction raised about the water with a wood and raffia walkway between the houses and buildings. Our guide told us that they live above the water because their ancestors were refugees from modern-day Nigeria who were chased to the Lake by another tribe during a war. It’s the rainy season right now and this past week rained more than they have seen in four years. Unfortunately that meant that the village was pretty much flooded. You couldn’t even see the stilts from which the village is named and some of the buildings (including the guesthouse where we almost stayed) were half underwater. It was really sad to be walking through the village and just wading through the water covering the walkways. But apparently when this happened four years ago, it only took a week to drain enough and since it has been relatively dry since Saturday, I’m hoping the village will be back to life soon! Even though it was really different from how it typically looks, it was actually pretty cool to get to experience the one weekend when it was flooded! We spent Saturday afternoon on the beach, enjoying the sunshine and then made the six-hour trek home Sunday morning. It was a great experience!! And hopefully the pictures will upload ☺