Northern Region - Part 1

Day Trip to Paga, Navrongo, and Bolgatanga

Building at the Slave Camp in Paga (a city on Ghana's border with Burkina Faso). The slave camp was where they kept slaves that were captured in the area before sending them to the castles in the South.

Holes that were carved into the rocks and that the slaves ate out of

Paga Crocodile Pond

Sitting on a crocodile at Chief's Crocodile Pond in Paga. No big deal. There were supposedly 400-500 crocodiles in this pond, although I only saw two. The locals believe that the crocodiles are sacred and that they're resurrections of their ancestors. It doesn't seem very respectful to want me to sit on their ancestor. This was right before we fed the crocodile a live chicken.

A traditional mud house in Paga across from the crocodile pond. This was a large complex with several houses. This isn't the way that most of the traditional houses looked though. Most were mud houses with thatched roofs.

The Burkina Faso border crossing. Because a visa to Burkina Faso is $40 and because I didn't have any time to spend there anyway, it hasn't been added to the list of countries I've been to...maybe another time.

Navrongo Catholic Church...I think it's the oldest Catholic church in Ghana, and maybe in West Africa. We were all really hot and tired so we stayed for about 5 minutes.

In Bolgatanga we stopped for lunch. I got rice balls with groundnut soup and guinea fowl. All three were excellent. We then went to the Bolgatanga Craft Market where a lot of the girls bought baskets. I just bought a few old Ghanaian coins.