Aburi Gardens

Saturday, September 4

Aburi Gardens is a botanical garden set in Aburi, about 45 minutes from Accra. One of the drivers from the study picked us up in the morning and we made the beautiful drive up the mountain. Felix, our driver, took us around the gardens and acted as a sort of tour guide, telling us the history of the garden and about the different plants and flowers. While we were walking around, I felt a light smack on my arm and turned around to see a little boy walking back to his friends, with an expression that said “see, told you I would touch the white lady!” A couple minutes later he came up and asked if he could take a picture with me. I said yes and as we posed for the picture all the other little kids came running up to be in the picture too.

In the middle of the gardens, there is an old, broken down helicopter. One of the first presidents of Ghana used to go to the gardens to pray and one of the times he went his helicopter wouldn’t start back up again, so they just left it there! Now it is a sort of jungle gym for the many kids who are there on field trips. Brie and I climbed up in it and took pictures. I wish there were more things like that when I was going on field trips!