Category Archives: Trip Ideas

The 5 Most Unique Places to Sleep in Ghana

Ghana is a very unique place to spend your vacation or holiday as it is but there are some places that you can choose to stay for the night that makes it that much more unique and provides those amazing … Continue reading

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How to Get Around Ghana Part 4: The Trotro

Welcome back or welcome for the first time to the series of posts on How to Get Around Ghana. We have covered walking, riding a bike, taking the taxi and now we will look at using the Trotro to get … Continue reading

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How to Get Around Ghana, Part 2: Riding a Bike

Welcome to Part 2 of How to Get Around Ghana, if you missed part 1 about walking and trekking you can catch it here. Like walking riding a bike around Ghana is probably not going to be the primary mode … Continue reading

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How to Travel Around Ghana Part 1

The Walking/Trekking Around Ghana Segment The issue of transportation after reaching Ghana seems to be one of the biggest issues facing travelers. Traveling in Ghana it is unlikely that you will not be able to find a place to stay … Continue reading

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Wanderer Wednesday #12: Undiscovered Paradise

European travelers are keeping a huge secret.  Do you know what it is? Short answer West Africa and even more so Ghana. When traveling in Ghana of the few tourists that you will come across at the tourist hot spots … Continue reading

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YouTube Tuesday #6: Taking the Yapei Queen across Lake Volta

This video is an informative mini documentary from a traveler who took the Yapei Queen from Port Akosombo to Yeji on the Volta Lake in Ghana.  The Volta lake was for a long time the largest man-made lake in the … Continue reading

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Wanderer Wednesday #4: Ghana Travel Etiquette

I got a little behind in Wanderer Wednesdays compared to the other daily specials that are on #5 but life goes on. This week I would like to give an introduction to some basic etiquette for a traveler to Ghana.  With … Continue reading

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Wanderer Wednesday #3: The Trotro

What is a Trotro? A Tro-Tro is the local name for the often crowded but cheap mini-bus transportation used in Ghana. Your first introduction to a Tro-Tro will probably be when you are walking the streets of Accra and hear … Continue reading

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Mosomagor Village Kickstarter.com Update 5

What would you do one day if you woke up in your suburban household as you get ready to go to your job in the city, where you spend your day collecting clients, making phone calls, taking care of customers, … Continue reading

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Tribewanted Project in Sierra Leone

Have you even read about one of those projects you really wish you could be involved in but it just doesn’t work with the place you are in, be it professionally or, family, or in my case because I am … Continue reading

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