Day 106: Kpatawee-Falls

Today Ian and Catherine continue south towards Sapo National Park and cross the border at Harper.

We will stay another day and tomorrow head east to the border and on to Man in the Ivory Coast.

At 9:00 a.m. we walk with our guide along the waterfall upstream for around two hours to a second waterfall. Beautiful and sweaty (as usual :-)). Then a bath for us and a wash for our clothes.

Did we already tell you about the trees that can migrate? They stand on a network of aerial roots and, depending on the development of the environment, a tree like this can change its location even after a certain age through the formation of new aerial roots.

We spend the afternoon doing little things, writing diaries, organizing photos (unfortunately we don't have a connection here). And tonight we will get served dinner here.

Today there are several groups of tourists passing by and it turns out that they are visiting relatives – for example Americans or Swedes who have family roots in Liberia. This also explains the good organization of this place.

In the evening we have a longer conversation with the “marketing representative”. Among other things, he tells us how the community benefits from the place and that they finance a part of the teaching staff. A few years ago, teachers only taught for two hours on Mondays and spent the rest of the week looking for additional income because the state didn't pay them. Today there are lessons every day.

A recurring theme – also in other conversations – is the illusion of migration to Europe. When we then tell people that illegals cannot work and often end up as drug dealers or, for example, in a kind of modern slavery on Italian tomato farms, we are looked at in disbelief.