Kakum National Park

Today we visited Kakum National Park just about an hour north of Cape Coast.

When we got there we were briefed by our guide on the park and some of it's features. Apparently, there are a great number of animals in this rain forest such as elephants, several kinds of monkeys, lots of snakes, leopards and many more. Unfortunately, the guide told us right away that we won't be seeing any of them. He explained that most of them only come around at night. He did say, however, that camping sites were set up around the park and that visitors could camp there overnight. The guides would then take the visitors out at midnight with a high powered flashlight (and rifle for safety) to spot some wildlife. I think that would have been an awesome addition to the program if we did that. I think I will suggest it for next year.

After the introduction we started to climb the hill to the start point of the canopy walk. When we got there our guide explained that it was actually the handiwork of two Canadians who built it with the help of six Ghanaians and that we would be 40 metres above the ground. Then we started the walk. It was pretty high. Normally, I don't like open heights but this didn't bother me for some reason. In fact, it was my favourite part of the Exchange so far! I took some awesome pictures and there was someone taking video that will be shown on TV3, the local station, on Saturday when a couple of cadets will be interviewed (http://www.tv3.com).

On the way back from the Park, we stopped at the school for the deaf again to see a performance of drumming and dancing by the students there. Some of the musicians were blind students and the dancers were all deaf. It was an amazing performance of African dance and they even got the cadets up participating.

After a tiring day, the cadets were given free time the rest of the day with an early curfew because we have an early start tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow, the Jungle Warfare School. This should be interesting, lol.

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