So Buchanan it is. But to get there I have to first reach the car park. We go along a street then turn around before the junction because there is police. I walk. A car parked on a roadside, next to it a woman cooking food. The food turns my stomach a bit, I need a toilet. Normally, on every bus park I ever needed a loo, there was one. Here the men got confused but the woman tells me to go to aβ¦ bank that is just next door. She tells me to ask security. And I go, feeling weird but the security takes me in and leads me through a Western Union hall full of people β AC what a bliss β and there it is, bathroom for customers.
Wonders of the world. We go. We stop at a checkpoint, a metal gate across the road. I follow her to an elderly man sitting in a polo t-shirt who takes my passport and starts telling me off for questioning the woman! Turns out her other sleeve does say immigration. We continue and soon we are in town. From car park I ask how to get to Ganta, someone says I may have to do it step by step but all shall be OK tomorrow.
The guesthouse looks nice from the outside. I want to see them and I ask for the cheapest. The room has shared bathroom and there are only bucket showers.
I go to the beach. Apart from main road Buchanan has a few paved streets and even pavements, apparently before Ebola struck there was some holiday development going on. And the beach? In town there is no beach. But camping? Beautiful beach? I see a sandy stripe a distance to the West. The asphalt soon ends, there is a gate made of string held by a man. I walk to what someone called Fanti Town.
I buy two hard-boiled eggs from a woman. Some children surround me and they also ask for eggs. The beach in Fanti Town is taken over by fishermen boats. Some rocls stick out of the sand into the waters so I walk on them to get a better view for the pics. I continue walking towards what I thought would be the wild beach for camping, I pass yet more boats among endless greetings and handshakes and when the boats end and the beach begins and it does look nice and wide, I see a man crouching on the sand.
