Morning in the market place

This morning the guys wanted to see the market in Kumasi and so when they asked me if i wanted to join them i didn't hesitate. We got stuck in the traffic going there. Hot. Eventually we arrived there. Watch out! Big trolley trying to squeeze in between the car and you, who at times are balancing to not fall into a gutter. Crowds of people. Everywhere you look there is people and vehicles. We enter the market and see cloth in beautiful colours and patterns. A woman approaches me and i decide on a piece, a lot cheaper (like 10 times...) than on a street outside of the market. Rasmus decide to buy one too. When i start looking, and touching other pieces of cloth, a woman start shouting at me "what are you doing? Don't do that!"... I apologised and we decided to leave, it was not a nice athmosphere. People complaining about a lack of change and not taking photos while standing in a constant moving crowd of people. Busy. Hot. We continued further into the market, cloth, kitchen utensils, schampoo, soap, vegetables, meat, chicken, machetes, baby clothes, knives, underwear, matches, you name it they got it! Jonas, the photographer, once again started taking pictures and this is really not popular with the sellers, in fact they got aggressive; the women were shouting and screaming. They sometimes looked at me as if please tell him not to take pictures. I told him, even if he already got it. Dilemma. For him. I didn't take out my camera until we had walked for a while and i always asked, but they don't want you to take their picture. So i took pictures above people's heads, and at the goods... You have to respect their wishes. People asked us several times where we came from and said "Germany or USA?", when i answered Sweden, some people looked confused while others went "aha". After less than an hour all three of us felt we had seen enough, it was intense. We got out of there, took a taxi and the taxi's engine kept dying... No breeze, no AC. Sweaty. But then the traffic started moving, we drove through town and i took some pictures and after a while we were back at the hotel. The guys checked out and now we are at the internet cafe, after lunch they'll go south to Takoradi, a town situated by the coast, while i'll stay another night in Kumasi. Tomorrow morning i head south east with the aim to visit another cocoa farm. This one is situated in a small village named Mampong where the first cocoa plant is to be found. In the same area, in another village is a botanical garden that i'm planning on visiting and possibly some water falls in that region. If nothing unexpected happends i will probably go back to Sweden next week! Crazy. Four weeks have then passed already. But i have material. Much more expensive than i expected it to be here. Don't know when i will be able to write next time, probably when i'm back in Accra... Take care and please keep your fingers crossed everything will go fine on my trips ahead.