Our guide at the Bunso Arboretum demonstrating how strong these roots are. They belong to a plant that is symbiotically living among the branches of the tree whose trunk you can see on the right. It sends down roots to tap groundwater when it gets too large to survive on water captured from the air alone.
This gentleman has been making beads from bauxite ("a rock consisting of aluminum oxides and hydroxides with various impurities: the principal ore of aluminum" per dictionary.com) most of his life; this is his studio in Abompe. The process is long and arduous.
Mining for gold near Abompe.
My mom learning to stamp adinkra symbols onto kente strips. The adinkra symbols all have meanings and these stamps are carved out of calabash (a large gourd) rind.
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My dad with the caretaker of the Besease Shrine (it is an UNESCO World Heritage Site) wearing a skirt used by a fetish priest for ceremonies.
I am feeding a mona monkey at the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary.
The young man (on break from school) who showed us around Kintampo Falls. He looked like he was having fun.
My mom pretending to hitchhike after our vehicle broke down on the way to Tamale (pronounced ta-ma-lay).
A woman adding mud to the outside of her hut.
We visited a village near Tamale where we saw shea butter being made, I tried my hand at native pottery (not giving up my day job!), and the villagers drummed and danced for us. The girls dance, I was told, commemorates one performed in celebration of something (sorry, my memory fails me - but it had to do with a kind) and they bumped butts together in celebration. Watch the video!
This man and the little boy are also performing a celebratory dance. Enjoy!
More photos to come in a couple of days.
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