We are at the start of our adventure. This is the Dam at Akosombo which created Lake Volta. It is an earthen dam. The haze is from the beginning of the Harmattan which blows the dust in off the Sahara desert. 

These are some fisherman we saw on the Volta River in the early morning going out to set their nets, probably a father and son.

We couldn't resist the beautiful orange blossoms on this tree. All along the road we saw these beautiful tall stately trees just coming into bud. They were quite a site. 

As we were driving along we spotted a couple of children pumping water at a local village bore hole. We stopped to get a picture and by the time we got out of the car with the camera we had started to draw a crowd. This bore hole is like the ones the Church is building all over Africa to insure pure drinking water. We didn't know if this was one the Church had built but we couldn't resist the photo op. Apparently the kids couldn't either. 

The children came out of nowhere in a matter of seconds and we had a crowd posing 

In just a few minutes we had a crowd and they all wanted to see themselves on the digital camera. This will be the most exciting thing to happen on their daily trip to the bore hole 

Oops this one is out of order. Elder Hales is negotiating price with one of the drum makers 

The makers of the drums are plying their craft. It appears that drums come in all sizes. 

On our drive we passed by this little shop and just had to stop. Actually there were a number of drum maker stands on this road because of the availability of wood from huge trees.  

One of our drum makers gives us an impromptu drum recital. He was good! You'll notice the two bicycles in the background. They belonged to 2 guys who were pedaling along the road and stopped to see what a van of white people were doing in the middle of nowhere. We tend to cause a commotion wherever we go.

For those of you old enough to remember Jimmy Durante, "Good Night, Mrs. Calabash", this is a calabash tree. Those large green balls that look like hanging watermelons are actually the calabash gourds. They don't eat these, but clean them out and dry them and use them for all kinds of bowls and containers. Some of them can have very curious shapes and they decorate them and sell them as art pieces. We had no idea when we saw this tree what it even was. Without Mike our guide we would have thought the Africans had learned how to get watermelons to grow on trees. We thought calabash grew on the ground like squash gourds. In Africa everything is different. 

Our guide points up to this hill and tells us it is the tallest "mountain" in Ghana and we set off to the far side where the water fall is located. The beginning of our jungle trek 

Here we are on our jungle trek. You can see the sweat on my shirt. Hey after all, this is Africa! 

You notice our eyes are all on the ground after Mike told us about the snakes. He did spot a small yellow mamba. Thank goodness I didn't see it before it slithered away otherwise I might not have been able to proceed. 

This is Mike our guide showing us some of the coffee beans growing in this area. Although most of what we walked through looked like jungle it was actually a farmer's area of coffee beans, cocoa bean trees, and yams. 

These are some of the beautiful trees that fill this area. It is a hardwood tree call Odum and is what many of the Ghanaians carvers use in their wood carvings. We have a nativity made from this wood. It is about the height of a 4 story building. 

Rusty with Mike our guide, taking an opportunity for a sit-down break while looking at the waterfall 

The top of the water fall which is flowing from a river in Togo 

We have seen prettier water falls in our life, but none of them was quite the same adventure to reach it.  

Here we are at the Liati Woti Falls. It feels so good that we don't want to leave. It looks inviting to just jump in, but the guidebooks recommend you don't unless you want to get sick. We're just thankful for the cooler air