They are iconic and exist the world over, some more renowned than others. Sydney Harbour, Brooklyn, Tower, Charles, the views from Waterloo and Hungerford being firm favourites of mine, Humber, the Severn, and the amazing Adome in Akosombo in the Volta region. Akosombo is so green and lush, on a massive scale so you get a breathtaking 360 degree view of natural beauty and the bridge spanning the river is incredibly iconic. Too much to capture, even with a wide angle lens. Again, it’s hard to reconcile this wonderful feat of engineering with the surrounding natural beauty and discovering this in the middle of Africa.
A boy of 10 will row you up stream and back, probably to fund his schoolbooks, as you take in the wonderfully pure water, trailing your fingers through it, resisting the urge to jump in. In a hotel close by, you can take it in more, eat tilapia if the service were better and appreciate the mini zoo. Crocodiles lounging in inch deep water, their backs so dried out by the sun that they look like carcasses, grinning less, sleeping soundly, their mouths agape like an old man’s, minus the drool. Monkeys scampering, looking like they would murder a cigarette. So incredible and random.
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