:: Posted on 16 Jan 09, but backdated to account for the chronology of our travels over the last three weeks ::Yesterday we drove to Techiman, and continued today back to Koforidua where Leslie and Pam will get to see where I stay and work.
On the way, we stopped at the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary. Apparently, this sanctuary has succeeded because of an old taboo on the hunting of monkeys around the two villages created by a village priest about 150 years ago. There is a monkey cemetery in the sanctuary and the priest, whose marker says he lived to be 120 years old, is buried with the monkeys.
As I haven't mentioned much about the primates on our trip so far, I'll include some photos here of both the baboons from Mole National Park and the Mona monkeys from the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary. There are also black and white monkeys at the sanctuary, but they eat leaves way up in the trees and, while we saw several 50 ft. straight above us, the sun was 
behind them, making picture taking impossible. However, I have included a photo from the internet. They were really cool looking - and both species have incredibly long tails - longer than I ever remember seeing at the zoo.
In addition, there was one trail in the sanctuary called Ficus Trail, and we soon discovered why. There were huge - HUGE - ficus trees along the path. 
I have no idea how long a ficus has to grow unhindered to become so large, but they were very impressive. Terese (one of our Swedish passengers) and I actually got inside one.Enjoy.
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