Day 134: Waterfall Lodge (Ghana) – Danyi Abbaye de l'ascension (Togo)

We follow our host's tip and cross the border directly at the Wli Falls. We almost get the feeling that no foreigner has ever done this before us. Nevertheless, leaving Ghana and entering Togo goes very quickly, within a good hour. However, we cannot stamp the Carnet de Passage for Togo here; there is an office for this halfway to Adeta. We are sent further on there again. At the “Douane” in Adeta they don’t really know… The customs officer goes to his boss, who then calls his boss and last but not least we get our stamp into the CdP.

After we have already activated an e-SIM for one cell phone to be on the safe side, we get a normal SIM for the second cell phone. Then withdraw money, because our Ghanaian Cedis are not exchanged here.

We drive back to the mountains or the Danyi high plateau. Pretty here, but unfortunately, like everywhere else in the last few weeks and months, visibility is poor due to the harmattan. 

Our destination today is a monastery. The 35 monks are more or less self-sufficient, growing coffee (bushes/harvest time from October), avocado (they can actually grow as a forest!), pepper (harvest time between February and April), mint, basil (a little different than we do know). There are bananas and other fruit trees, a few cows and goats. We find out all this on a short tour with Brother Raffaele, who speaks German quite well. 

In the shop we buy a few of the things that are produced here.

After we had a really delicious meal last night (jollof rice with beef, palaver sauce with chicken and plantain as well as vanilla ice cream (!) for dessert), we are excited to see what we will get for dinner here today. We're a bit lazy at the moment...