Friday, August 04, 2006
ELMINA - Our Vacation destination
Just across the harbour from the Elmina Slave castle sits Fort St. Jago. Built quite a few years after the slave castle, its purpose was defence - and while the castle itself had cannons and systems of defence (the picture was taken from the castle wall) the fort had access not only to the harbour but also to the ocean itself.
Below left is the picture of the town itself, its beach and harbour entrance. To reach our hotel you would follow the beach around for about 3 kilometres and it was located on the beach (very noisy for it was right on the beach) - and once a lovely place, now a bit run down, but still lovely setting. The other picture is a close up of the habour - you would think traffic jams were a city event, but here we have four boats each trying to go its own way and not very successfully - this is a very busy fishing habour and all around the area are all kinds of fish markets and small market type booths. While the boats look quite colorful, in reality they are the fishing boats that go and come daily - a few of them are just arriving in the other picture.
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