When you are visiting St. George's Castle, you have a big chance of seeing the locals in a conpletely different way. Behind the Castle, at the seaside, you will see quite a few Ghanaian men relaxedly taking a bath in the sea and washing their clothes. Result: they are completely naked!
(Of course) they don't like it when you take pictures of them, but it really is a funny sight to see them wash themselves with soap on the rough rocks of Elmina.
Updated Mar 21, 2007
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When you are visiting St. George's Castle, you have a big chance of seeing the locals in a conpletely different way. Behind the Castle, at the seaside, you will...
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El Mina town started life as a fishing village way back in the 13th century, and was producing salt as long ago as 700 years. Life still goes on pretty much in the same way today. The name is...
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How cruel history can be.... Elmina has a fort and a castle. The St George's castle is built by the Portuguese in 1482 and captured by the Dutch in 1637. Till 1872 (then the english took over) the......
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