RECENT VISITS

Pictured: During a 5 mile walk through the Banco National Forest, we stopped to snap a pick with a beautiful and massive tree before heading back to the port in Abidjan.

Pictured: Standing at the top of Elmina Castle overlooking Elmina Bay as the locals take their boats out to fish, we toured around the castle to learn what role it played in the history of slavery.

Pictured: Participants of a voodoo ceremony taking a break in Anecho, Togo

Our main excursion in Togo was called “All About Voodoo” - therefore we spent a 10 hour day driving to different villages seeing how each and everyone of them practices their traditional African beliefs differently. The 4 different villages we visited all had very different styles and rituals for their practice.

Pictured: Taking a speedboat down the Kouilou River to see the local, but wild, chimpanzees.

Our time in Congo was short, but we did the most exotic thing one can do while in this lesser-traveled West African country. After getting to the port, we took a few hour bus ride to the river, where we then proceeded to take a small zodiak style boat 2 hours deeper into the bush to spend time with chimpanzees!

Pictured: At the Miradouro da Lua overlooking the “Viewpoint of the Moon”

The coast of Angola is so naturally beautiful and reminded us of what an untouched California could look like. Re-learning parts of the history of slave trade was sobering, eye-opening, painful, yet left a mark of relief of it’s resolution and the forgiveness that has been learned as a path forward.

Pictured: Walking down the dune mountains in Walvis Bay, Namibia

Namibia, although seemingly covered in sand dunes, had surprisingly so much diversity to offer! The salt flats, the flamingos, Walvis Bay, the diamonds near Luderitz, the beautiful ocean, thousands of seals, shipwrecks on the beach, and historic old towns - and that’s only the west coast!