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- Accra
- Capital
- Cedi (GHC)
- Currency
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- Country Code
Ho
Travel Blogs from Ho, Ghana
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2nd Week in Ho
... over their heads (!) and sorting out kit, positions and shoes for everyone! There was also another England vs Ghana game which was slightly more structured, probably due to the existance of real goals. Needless to say, we ...
Making the most of it.
... ! and even now, 5/6 weeks in, I still have 'shit! i'm in africa?!' moments, its really bizarre.. So yeah, I'm in love with Ghana! Its so liberating! You can do pretty much whatever you want (as long as you stick to the culture rules) and everybodys just ...
Guldjubileum, Raaastafaraiii, berg och savann...
... porlande vattenfall kom tackningen till mobilen tillbaka och med det en inbjudan till att hjalpa till med ett childaid projekt i Tamale, norra Ghana. Hogg forsta tro-tro norrut, insag snabbt (matt i Ghana time c:a 3h..) att den farden var omojlig pa ...
Ho
... my belt from Aburi to here, and definitely away from the hustle and bustle of the coast - still very very hot, and sweating bucket loads - Ho has a lot more of a rural feel about it, and is a bit dryer / dustier than the other places I've seen so far. ...
Same old, same old.
Heeyyy! Okay soo I don't really have nothing new to say.. Same old stuff at the orphanage.. wake up, breakfast, feed Richard & take him for a walk, give Charity her medicine, do the dishes, play with the kids, have a nap, lunch, feed Richard, ...
Ho-me Sweet Ho-me
... inspection, the hill could have passed for modern art, a bona fide scrapyard and seemingly the site of all of the waste produce in Ghana, which was joyfully guarded by vast numbers of vultures, and thus the inevitable flies. I don't think I need to go ...
Used to be Togo
... the whole region. I stayed in Ho for one night before heading out of town and back to the countryside again. Ho is a pleasant enough town with reggae beats pulsating out of the many drinking holes and onto the streets where women prepare delicious ...
South East Ghana, then home to Sydney
... staying in Accra, as MP is a bit spooked by stories of all accommodation in Accra being booked out because of the Ghana 50th Anniversary celebrations. Quite a few tourists turn up, including the Americans called by God, a Polish girl ...
An Introduction to Microfinance
So the reason I came to Ghana (and those of you who know about volunteering know that Ghana is the most clichéd place to go) was to work with a microfinance project out of the town of Ho. I looked the world over through various internet searches and this ...
First Impressions
... exit to each village and a strategic locations through the middle of it. By the end of the trip, I had a headache. Ghana also ascribes to the West African Military Checkpoint Policy. The purpose of these checkpoints remains a mystery to me. I ...
An Update on Llife
... to be cheering for the winning team! On Sunday, to follow the emotional high of the football match, I went to church. Southern Ghana is filled with churches (most in assorted stages of construction) and I figured I should get in at least one of them ...
Saying Good-bye
... , and it's harder to leave people than places. I will be the first to admit that I was rather ambivalent about this whole Ghana thing at the beginning. I was coming off one of the best months of my life wrapping up university, and I hated to think my ...
Togo HOOOOO
... just agreed and pay them as a private taxi. Brilliant. Oh, little Ghanaian cultural discovery as we sat in the internet cafe, Ghana has adverts for an official 'we have found oil song' competition to celebrate them finding oil jsut off the coast in ...
Bats
Meghan got a great idea to go and do some volunteer work on a farm for a week. After talking to some other students she decided that she would go and Catherine offered to accompany her. By the end of the week we received a call from the two of them. ...
Yam Festival
I stumbled onto a Yam Festival in Ho (a regional capital). The ceremony itself was pretty dull but for several hours leading up to it different groups performed traditional music while the chiefs of all the villages in the area made their grand ...
Thinking of the end
... make the kids’ lives better in the village. To the things I can accomplish for the next two weeks (well, three weeks in Ghana, but I’m not counting the one week spent traveling in the North as time left in Klefe), I know I will be successful ...
My Voradep Home
... if their parents die.) Lydia has mentioned many people who are her “sisters.” Before I left for Ghana I met a guy studying at UVM from Ho, and apparently his mother is Lydia’s “sister.” But who knows. I also ...
The Cured Leprosy Village
I wish I could take more pictures at the hospital to show everyone where I've been working! On the Children’s Ward we have infant twins receiving phototherapy for jaundice. You test for jaundice by measuring the function of the liver, and the ...
Starting to settle in...
July 10, 2009 The Obama's come to Ghana today. They visit Cape Coast first and then President Obama will speak in Accra. It will be great to read about his visit in the papers. I was even fortunate to see him speak at Cape Coast after his tour of the ...
Tackling Typhoid
I was still feeling sick by morning so Eric sent me to John's clinic to have my blood tested. Surprise! Typhoid Fever! It’s hard to imagine that people even get typhoid anymore…I had the vaccine, but apparently its only 80% effective. ...
First week in
... guess, so I’ll tell you. Let it just be known that this is one of the last things I ever expected to see in Ghana (aside from white cheddar Cheez-its!): popcorn!! Bertha made it with butter and salt and everything! All it needed was a little ...
TravelsW
... (although, I did get an accidental scratch!). From there we traveled to Wli Waterfalls, which is the largest waterfall in Ghana. We hiked 45 minutes through the forest to reach it. The sight was amazing! Our 10-year-old guide told ...
Muskelkater
... . Amedzofe ist eins von einer ganzen Reihe von "community based ecotourism projects", die Leute vom Peace Corps ueberall in Ghana aufegbaut haben. Das ist echt nicht schlecht. Ein Buero direkt am zentralen Platz der Stadt, da wird man empfangen, ...
Little nothings of Ho
... , due to the curry. I felt awful I didn't want to eat it, but it was 9 cedis, the most expensive thing I have ordered in Ghana, and I felt a frugal duty to force it down. Finally, at 7:15, 15 minutes before we were supposed to meet the PAs for a drink, ...
Journey to Ho
... poured every day that I’ve been here, after apparently not raining for months), and half finished buildings. A lot of Ho/Ghana is like that. It’s fun to see colorfully dressed women carrying things on their heads, but most of the ...
Market, Monkeys, and Falling Water
... for motorbikes at the roadside or to have to walk because we have been told so often that transportation is unreliable in Ghana. Because we were immediately pulled onto bikes, we did not have time to process anything about the intersection, the people ...
Trafalga - Volta Regional Hospital
... to leave but I will be back later.” There are a bunch of English phrases that have acquired different meanings in Ghana. “Are you enjoying yourself?” actually means “Are you eating?” While we waited, Mr. Hii began ...
Road trip, finale.
... last week. Today, at church, we went to Ho to celebrate and honor the 35 pastors of the church in Ho-region. There were armed guards and Ghana police preventing us from entering through the front door. People were pouring out of the stairs in the side ...
Screaming babies and dying computers
... was Christine, Kathryn, some young men from her village, and two girls from Notre Dame who were finishing things up (they leave Ho on Wednesday night and Ghana on Thursday). I went to search for my donuts and, alas, none to be had. They didn't get their ...
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