Boti Falls

On Saturday I headed to the Boti Falls to see some more water fall methodically into more water, yet somehow I'm entertained by this? This was a completely different waterfall experience than last week because this one was about 6X as big and this time the water fell into more water, which allowed for some swimming. So not really a completely different experience, being that they both times it was water + gravity. When I stepped off the trotro towards the nature area, I met two British guys who were taking six weeks off work and had come to Ghana to volunteer coaching soccer (can it get any better?) and take the weekends to travel around. These guys were completely nutters and we're in such a rush to get to Ghana that they forgot to leave the crazy pills at home. Which made them seem like normal human beings...only in 45th gear the whole day. It was great though, and a nice change of pace as they talked enthusiastically about their home stay, traveling and one's desire to purchase a goat, bring it back on the trotro, slaughter it, and feed themselves for four days straight, "just for the laugh of it." Who wants in? Darren's idea comes much to the chagrin of the older James who compares such ideas to David Beckham playing ball in the US. They were talking about how they decided it would be a swell idea to take a bus to the Burkina Faso, one of the poorest nations in the world, starting from Accra. The journey was set to take a day, turned into three, and by the time they reached the border, decided they had to turn back. They wanted to try again, but they heard of a bus on the same route that was raided by armed highway robbers and they asked the guy at the bus station how often in happened? Oh, you know, one or twice a month. Once or twice a month! An indicative statement of the bordering nations that are rife with instability.
We toured around finding Umbrella Rock, a palm tree with three necks, and the mammoth falls. The book said the water was swimmable so it was down to my underwear and into the water. I took the camera along for the ride, but most of the pictures will have to wait as uploading them over here takes about 3 goat years. It was crazy though, the closer I swam to the falls, the harder I got propelled away as if it were two similar sides of a magnet. Only two weeks left, up next is some loan distribution on Thursday followed by the adventure up to the largest man made lake in da world.