A day in Aburi..

Giant tree in Aburi Gardens.





Saturday we drove (bumped our way along) northward to a town called Nswam. We were meeting some wonderful men there, who are trying to help the young adults with education and job opportunities - right now, the young people have to drive (in terrible traffic) several hours to Accra for both jobs and classes. This means that many get discouraged and drop out, which causes a multitude of problems; or, that they move to larger areas, depleting the smaller towns of their most valuable resource: the next generation. The church here is the nicest building in the area - yet on the inside it is still a bit rudimentary.

Dago and Annette Klein are the missionary couple over Welfare Projects, so they were with us determining how the church could help. While we were there, a wedding was to take place a few hours later, and these two little boys were having fun on the keyboard before the guests arrived.

Right across the street from the church was a banana grove and street vendors.

We finished our business at Nswam and felt really good about the time we spent there. We were able to take the information back to Accra, and hopefully help these good people with some resources. For the rest of the afternoon, we planned to go further inland to the Aburi Gardens - a "cooling off" area for the British in the late 19th century. We took the back road - and "road" is used loosely, but the scenery was gorgeous.

This young girl was doing the family wash in the stream that was along side the road...that most of us would not even wash our dirty shoes in.

The drive to the top of the mountain took a couple of hours, but this was our reward: the Hillburi Restaurant. From the outside, no one would guess what is in the back - this fabulous view, and a fairly nice pool and restaurant.

Annette took our picture while we waited for our lunch. Our server, Issac, was such a nice young man, and was trying so hard to give us his best service.

Our friends, Dago and Annette Klein. We were waiting for the tour guide, thinking it was a driving tour....
but when we found out it wasn't, we figured we could make the walk on our own.

The giant tree is well over one hundred years old and had the most interesting base.

The top of the mountain (a whole 600 feet) felt so much cooler than the humidity of Accra, and we thoroughly enjoyed the chance to help in Nswam and see some other parts of the country.