Attempted Trip to the Escarpment

I definitely have had some interesting adventures here in Africa... but at least I have stories to share. :) On Sunday afternoon we decided to go to the Escarpment, one of the only fun activities close by. It's an overlook about 45 minutes away from Nalerigu that you can hike up to and see all over Northern Ghana and even to Togo and Burkina Faso. It is supposed to be beautiful but I actually have yet to see the view... cause we never made it there! No, our hike to the overlook consisted of an hour of hiking in tall grass and trying to find the trail there! We supposedly started out on the right path, but the more we walked, the narrower the path and the taller the grass. Angela was our guide but she has never been there after rainy season (apparently there isn't any grass to walk through in dry season) so she was as lost as those of us who had never been before. At one point we saw some rocks and thought if we could go over to them, then maybe on the other side we would see the escarpment. But after making our way through more grass and climbing up the huge rocks, we were at a dead end. We just kept praying that we wouldn't run into any snakes and thinking how the anti-venom is 45 minutes away! Thankfully, there were no snakes and we at least found our way back to the car before dark. Our 4 hour trip to walk through tall African grass! Hopefully I will get to see the Escarpment before I leave, but next time I will make sure it's with Dr. Hewitt, who is usually the one to take groups there.

With the Escarpment behind me... where we were headed
Us at the dead end.... yea, not such a pretty view.