Beyin, Western Region, Ghana

With two days free during my first weekend in Ghana, my colleague Tre and I set off for an adventure in the Western Region. It took us seven hours to get to Beyin, riding in three different tro tros, making it to the village early enough to catch some rays on a clean beach, something fairly difficult to find here in Ghana. There is no good trash disposal program so you can find plastic and wrappers scattered on the ground, and even some in the ocean. Not only was the white sand relatively clean and soft here, for the first time I experienced the Atlantic as a warm body of water. This is far from the harsh cold water I remember on the New York side of this ocean. The beauty of Beyin cannot be expressed in words, so here are a couple of photographs.