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Travel Blogs from Hohoe, Ghana
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Volunteer Work at VSD
This is a top pick! ... cudda not remember the title. I stubbornly Googled for the right title with a great deal of my patience 'cos the Internet in Ghana wuz REALly slow. I believe I spent an hour searchin' for it 'till 'Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom' appeared. ...
Browsin' Town n' Dancin' & Drummin' Performance
This is a top pick! ... ; I learned dat they took Home Economics class in high school and learned how to make the clothes. There are numerous shops in Hohoe where seamstresses work. Ya could buy fabric & give it to 'em to make something out of it for ya. ...
Volunteerin' & Tour at VSD
This is a top pick! ... Lydia’s lesson of Religion, I read one of passages about three major religions (Christianity, Muslim, and African Traditional) in Ghana. Each of the religion is explained: term of a person of the religion, his belief, what they ...
Home of Cross-Cultural Solutions Volunteer
This is a top pick! The 3 homes where about 36 volunteers stay are not what I expected. They are comfortable and neat. They are in Hohoe, a remote place with the dirt road. I thought they wudda be shacks, outdated, dirty, and out of my comfort zone. The ...
A Bumpy Ride to Hohoe
This is a top pick! ... 8217; many mangoes! Man-Goes! Well, in the U.S. we have domestic animals which are cats n’ dogs, ja? In Ghana, I see chickens n’ goats! I meant LOTS of ‘em. They roam freely and apparently are smarter than the ...
Bits of Ghana
This is a top pick! ... a meetin’ w/ a man who presented on educational system in Ghana. Ghana follows international education system. Ghana has 6-year primary school, 3-year junior high school, and 4-year senior high school. They speak regional dialect ...
Here Comes the Wli Waterfall!
This is a top pick! ... tourist attractions in Ghana, so it was a must to visit. We were lookin' forward to it as it’s the highest waterfall in Ghana. It’s not far from our home-based, about 30 minutes of drive. The road was paved dirt, paved, and dirt ...
First Day at Volta School f/t Deaf
This is a top pick! ... books, erasers, teacher’s aides, and so on. Students learn English at skool as it’s an official language of Ghana, not regional dialects. Gerard said it’s difficult for ‘em to learn. I believe ‘cos I had ...
Sayin' Goodbye Ain't Easy & Last Thoughts
This is a top pick! ... Talking Hands' homepage: "We want to thank Mary Chimelak for taking time to come visit us at the Volta School for the Deaf in Hohoe, Ghana. Mary has done so much to open the eyes of students, staff, and community members that it is beyond words. I just ...
Hikin' & Visitin' Caves
This is a top pick! ... their baby on their back wrapped in a sheet around their breasts and waist. I didn't see one stroller since I arrived in Ghana. I rarely saw 'em carryin' it in their arms. Ya can imagine how tough they are: carryin' the baby and ...
Day 7-9: Where we should have been all the time!
... of organised religion, not the Big Cheese Himself. But maybe now and again it serves some general good. I think Ghana's brand of fire and brimstone evangelical bible thumping does at least consistently promote one clear message; the difference between ...
Children without Parents
... ? As much as I have been impacted intimately by these children, I have deep reservations about the orphanages in general in Ghana. I say this because Ghanaian family culture is very much different than New Zealand. New Zealand society we mostly have a ...
Halbzeit in Afrika
... sechs Wochen zusammen, waren die Ausfluege einsame Spitze und die Volta-Region bis jetzt mein schoenstes Ausflugsziel in Ghana (Erinnerungen an die Landschaft Sierra Leones wurden wieder wach). Mein Appetit ist uebrigens wieder zurueckgekehrt und nach ...
The simple life in Hohoe
... go and order two kebabs and indo mie noodles and mix them together for dinner. Those were great nights for dinner. Dinner in Hohoe suites me fine however. There’s nothing more rewarding and relaxing to me than ordering one Cedi worth of deep fried ...
Week One
... building at 8 was then a little interesting! This weekend we headed out of the village for a restbite in the town of Hohoe, staying the 2 nights in a small hostel with electricity and running water (pure bliss!). On the friday night when we arrived we ...
The NZ-US Wli Expedition
... really funny to see such a tall person sitting in cradle position in a van. Public transport works in slightly different manner in Ghana compared to New Zealand. Firstly there’s no schedule. You go to the station find the Trotro or bus, board the ...
Final weekend travels and very stiff legs
... it's more fun saying hoho) Arriving in Accra is like entering another country. It is without doubt the economic core of Ghana- it even has actual pavements! At every set of traffic lights sellers will swarm around vehicles, selling the standard plantain ...
Day 11 .. HoHoe & Wli Falls
... . We got a Tro around 6 and went to the station in Koforidua. From there we took another tro to Volta Region, HoHoe which took 3 hours. We stayed in the Matsville hotel. The rooms were actually not to bad. We arrived at about ...
Introductions
I realize I may have name dropped without actually introducing any of the staff or other volunteers, so I'll list them. Volunteers: Laura- my roommate, a college senior from Illinois Chris- the only boy in our group, a college sophomore from ...
Volta Region
Wli Falls. I had a brilliant time with my guide Francis, as we hiked for four hours. The pictures tell it better than I ...
Day 12.. Monkey Sanctuary
We had 2 hours of sleep and today we are visiting the Monkey sanctuary. We left the hotel around 7am and Fern & I got a lift from a local in the back of his truck to the Tro station while the others walked. We found a Tro and our group ...
Happy Birthday!
... angerufen, weil ich eben erst aus dem ewigen Funkloch in sowas wie Zivilisation zurueckgekommen bin. Jetzt bin ich in Hohoe und habe gerade schon Schecks eingeloest und ein paar Sachen nach Deutschland geschickt. Komischerweise kostete das Ganze hier ...
One month down...
... a taxi with him - we definetly could have walked... The lodge was pretty awesome with mountain ranges encircling it. Last week Ghana was experiencing Hamatan (think that's the spelling) which is a season of heavy dust due to the Northen Sahara winds. ...
Back to Ghana
... de grens over naar Ghana en toen door naar Liate Wote, een dorpje aan de voet van Mount Adjafatoe, de hoogste berg van Ghana. Eerst een wandeling gemaakt naar de togbe watervallen. Best een pittige wandeling, vooral als je al een hike van drie uur erop ...
Akosombo – Ho – Hohoe – Wli Agus
... für Ghana, was erklärt, dass er wie Fort Knox vom Militär gesichert wird. Wir erreichen Wli am Nachmittag, etwa 20 km von Hohoe nach einer Fahrt durch dicht Wälder mit riesigen Bäumen. Wir befinden uns dicht an der Grenze zu Togo, die hier durch ...
A word on Ghanaian timekeeping and a waterfall
Wednesday 13 October Tuesday was spent mainly on a coach, with a six hour journey from Accra to Hohoe, which is in the mountainous Volta Region of Ghana. The Volta Region is named after the Lake which binds it to the west, which is the largest man-made ...
Oh My Ghana, Having So Much Fun
... eventually got up and walked away, though. We ended the day early because the staff wanted to get back to the hotel for the Ghana/Zambia World Cup qualifying game (Ghana lost 0-1). After the game, I took my fabric to the tailor to get a bag ...
The Past Few Days
... anyway. My first outreach was on Monday. My team, consisting of me, Mohammed, and Nawal, was stationed in a church in Hohoe within walking distance from our hotel. I gave visual acuity tests to around 60 people before the van came to take us ...
Monkeys and Mountains
... back! It was quite cozy to say the least. The driver sped down the road, which appeared to have more potholes that pavement. Luckily Hohoe wasn't too far away. As we climbed into the fifth and final tro-tro of the weekend I grew even more anxious for my ...
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