Cape Coast- Part 1

It's when I stood sixty metres above the rain forest that I realized I was in a place I've always wanted to be, a dream, but slowly I snapped back and realized it was reality.

This weekend was interesting yet again. We left for Cape Coast early Friday morning, it was a poor day so I wasn't really bothered by a four-five hour drive. We arrived at Cape Coast late afternoon, the weather still poor ready to find a place to drop our stuff before grabbing some food. It ended up our friend Evans got us rooms at the GNAT Hostel, Ghana National Association of Teachers. After having a short moment, I AM IN GHANA AND I AM TEACHING, we headed out to Oasis Beach Resort for some food to remind us of home. I stuffed myself with some amazing pizza and french fries before cracking into my first Ghanaian Star beer! (for those of you wondering yes, it was amazing BUT I did only have one) Since it was pretty cold and rainy we decided we'd just head to the hostel for the night, hang out and play some cards so we could get a good sleep for our adventures on Saturday.
The next morning, we all filed into our trow trow and stuffed our face with fresh bread and bananas from the roadside vendors. We headed up the hilly road to the Canopy walk. The Canopy walk is sixty metres above the rain forest and is 360 metres long. It was so amazing. We had to hike up this long trail through, what I kept calling the jungle, but it was actually the rain forest. It was so beautiful and so difficult to put into words. The tree roots were jutting up onto the pathways, tree branches hanging down, animals making noises, the leaves rustling because animals were moving, it was all so amazing. We climbed upwards for about twenty minutes before we reach the Canopy walk. It was a single plank of wood pathway 60 metres high in the air that seemed endless until I reached the last plank. I was absolutely terrified the first few planks but after was able to loosen up, relax a little bit, and take in the scenery both up and down. It was beautiful. I walked sweating from fear and the hike we did to get to it then it started to rain. The rain just made everything surreal to me. I was standing 60 m in the air on a plank of wood, in the rain forest, in Ghana, in Africa, Oh my goodness, I was finally here...