Ghana IPSF 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Mole National Park
Mole National Park is located in Northern Ghana and is a difficult journey at best - transit in the North of Africa is unreliable and sometimes just doesn't exist. However now I can say that I have been on my first African safari! We went on both a jeep tour and a walking tour. We saw a lot of kob and some bushbuck (2 different types of African antelopes), elephants, monkeys, warthogs, and of course several different and colorful birds.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
toilet paper
taking fufu
Fufu is a Ghanaian staple. It is a pounded doughy grain (usually made from casava I believe). You eat it with your hand (right hand only) by pinching off a small piece and then using it to scoop as much broth as you can mange. You don't chew it - you just swallow the ball whole. This is the quintessential Ghanaian food - although many of the dishes here are eaten with the hand without the assistance of a spoon or fork. There is not a lot of variety in the food - given access to resource - but rice, chicken, fish, fufu, banku, and ampesie (boiled yams) are generally available. At this time of year there is also a lot of pineapple, watermelon, banana, orange, and apples.
Hospital Pharmacy in Ghana
Reverse osmosis machine
Neem tree leaves
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