The National Park

Akan National Park, July 17th, 2007

Today I’d planned to go to Ashoro. But I was there by noon so I continued uphill all afternoon to Akan National Park. I wasn’t sure what to expect by ‘national park’ though I can assure you it wasn’t this aboriginal disneyland! They had pulled out all the stops; totem pole carving demonstrations, tribal chanting broadcasting from the loudspeakers, log cabin souvineer shops and 7/11 with an atm. It was working judging by the packed tourbus parking lot across the street from the campground. I ate dinner at a traditional foods café. I went with the deer meat soup, with rice, beans and salmon kidneys. I didn’t even know salmon had kidneys. Did you?