Eden, Bethlehem & Boti Waterfalls

today i am offering a description on how to get to a chunk of paradise (if you are a fan of nature) , the boti waterfalls. i was given three options by a colleague and i daresay , i missed my way twice but commonsense , instinct, a question or two and a road map put me back on track. i will describe my own route here. to get to boti waterfalls you have to keep in mind some key names, starting with dodowa , adukrom and ofcourse boti. first you’ll have to find your way to afieya using the road leading to michelle camp or if you’ve ever been to aksombo from tema, that’s the road you would use. keep your eyes out for the famous blue and white signs that usually show you a town’s directions. within a few meters from the toll crossing into afienya you will see the sign pointing to dodowa to your left. turn in there and keep driving for as long as the road will take you.

if you are not too busy focusing on the road, you’d see a sign to your left with the word eden (no its not the garden). after thirty minutes to an hour of driving (depending on your speed, the traffic or the car) you’ll get to a cross road where you see lots of sign post but none of the familiar blue and white. take a right and enjoy the ride ( you might as well because it a long one). you’ll pass interesting sounding town names like …(memory skips me) . i can’t gauge how long you would have to drive but somewhere in that stretch you’ll drive past bethlehem on your left. here i’ll note that you wont see any manger just an abandoned concrete structure with no roof surrounded by lots of grass. drive on. after a long time of driving , you will come across a sign post that welcomes you to somanya , at that point you ignore the welcome and turn left because if you look left you’ll see a sign pointing to adukrom (something). take that road and keep driving.

you’ll find yourself going up hill and downhill and around curves but the road is tarred and only has a problem in one spot. up and down you keep going like one of those nursery rhymes and at the tail end of your journey you’ll meet with a T-junction. (a tee junction is one in which straight ahead is a dead end). at this junction if you are keeping your peeled you will see our famous blue and white sign with akropong (left) and koforidua (right). take right. after a short drive , take your first left and keep going. you’ll come across the up, down and curved roads again. then you’ll pass a couple of nice looking villages complete with the mud huts but the road is still tarred. you’ll meet with a customs check point and you can stop there and ask the really nice customs guy there if you are on the right track. he’ll tell you exactly what you will be reading in the next paragraph.

you keep going straight up the road. you will pass a village or three and still keep going. you will come to the only t-junction and if your eyes are peeled (and you had spoken to the nice customs guy) you would see a signboard directing you to the other waterfall (name withheld due to memory glitch) which is not boti but keep reading. you take a left at the T-junction and keep on driving. follow the road until you meet yet another customs check point. this time you don’t have to ask any questions ( i didn’t so i can’t tell if there’s a nice customs guy there). a few meters from the customs post you will see a signboard advertising the other waterfall but if you look very closely you’ll see another sign this time written in white chalk saying “boti falls, 7km (then an arrow)”. follow the arrow.

the other water fall is at a 2km distance but we are only interested in boti for now. at the two kilometer distance, you will see the signboard for the other waterfall ignore it and keep going in the other direction. after a few more minutes of driving you will find the gates of paradise. no angels there, just a young muscular well spoken guy collecting the 50pesewa toll for a ticket and an old guide , who would take you down the 250 steps to the base of the waterfall. please do remember to tip the nice old man.

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