Kumasi, Ghana Travel Blogs

... have to wait until Monday as they don't weave on Sundays and it was too late to head out today. We decide just to go to downtown Kumasi and go to the market. Prince suggests a visit to the King's Palace and we add that we want to see the sword. He gets us ...

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... for the sum of $75 US. Not bad! They will take us anywhere we want to go. It is about a 45-minute drive from Kumasi to Bonwire. Things were going great until we turned down a road and had to stop the bus because some scary looking locals were blocking ...

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... getting old fast. We get back to the hotel and we have to make arrangements to leave tomorrow. We're not sure how to get from Kumasi to Elmina where our next hotel is. We talk to Mr. Bates, the manager of the Silicon Hotel, and he agrees to rent us the ...

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Today we are heading to Kumasi from Akosombo. Normally this would mean going back to Accra as there is no direct public transit between the two places, but Daniel has come through for us once again and has hired a van through the Methodist church to take ...

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Today being Sunday and lots of things being closed, we decided to hang around the hotel and veg. Kailey drew lots of attention in the pool, guess no one has seen a white fish before. Pearl -the lady at the front desk was crying because she won't see ...

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... yet, for all its chaos, it's heart was gentle, no meanness or ill-will to be found. On our first tro-tro to Kumasi Market, our surroundings looked like a forgotten colonial city, stuck in time, dancing to the sound of progress with too many cars and a ...

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Up at 6.30, leave camp by 8.  We drove back to the town with massive market for cook group shopping.  Oliver and I helped out Mum before heading off on our own.  Purchased some black flip flops so can now put my chavie white ones ...

We traveled back from Sunyani to Kumasi Saturday morning in a trotro.  It was completely full but all in all was a relatively comfortable ride.  The ride was smooth until we got into Kumasi where we got stuck in massive traffic.  We were ...

... bags for the trip to Accra.  It was very sad because this was the last time the IBV students would be seeing Kumasi.  After packing all our stuff, we started walking towards the taxi station.  Of course now that we had all the IBV ...

... decided to do a lot of walking downtown and a little exploring.  It is amazing once you really get into the market in Kumasi.  At first we thought the main streets where all the vendors are was the market, we were very wrong.  We found ...

... inte att andas sjalv nar han tilslut kom ut. Sa det var tungt.. Har jattekul med varan vardfamilj. Igar var det fotboll Ghana-Nigeria och hela byn/staden vralade sa fort det hande nagot. Som tur var vann Ghana!!! Nu ska jag pa semester!!! Kanns som ...

Kumasi, 11/29 Miles Travelled: 18923 We're in Kumasi, in central Ghana. This was the seat of the Ashanti empire in the 15th-18th centuries. The Ashanti were a powerful people who traded in gold and slaves, and Ghana was known as the "Gold Coast" ...

This past weekend the ISEP (international student exchange program) took us to Kumasi, the second largest city in Ghana. It was a free travel  (well I suppose this is Ghana’s version of the student activity fee) which was awesome. However, the ...

... the reading on the gun.  How strange that was!  Once again, Sanga talked us out of a unreal situation!!! We got to Kumasi after dark and drove around quite a while before we found the hotel that Sanga had stayed at on his way down to pick us up ...

... .  Total cost: 95 pesewas.  It was 11 o'clock once we got into a taxi.  We were able to haggle down to 6 Ghana cedis.     After a short drive to the hospital, we walked up to go see John and hand in our IRB for ...

... to the path to the area that they were sitting we were greeted by many "welcomes" and "please, sit downs."  Everyone in Ghana says welcome and sit down.  This can be a little unnerving when you don't actually know where to sit.  Three ...

... Accra sa vi har hunnit ligga pa stranden pa eftermiddagarna! Sedan ar det sa lustigt med att vara volontar i Ghana for att efter ett par manader kanner man till i princip alla andra volontarer runtom i landet och springer pa varandra igen, ...

... well. This does not include the abandoned cars on the road or the black people walking on the side of the road. We finally got into Kumasi at 11:00 to find that there we no rooms at the Hotel Swagart, where we stayed last time, and there was no where left ...

After the Western Region we headed straight to this Lake, where I took my time to do some relaxing, except for the first day when we hiked the mountain to get to the actual Lake, close to a hour and a half hike. A nice one though if it weren't for my ...

... that we had arrived our food was cold.  We heated in up in our cooker and all ate very well. The morning in Kumasi can be pretty similar to morning in Houghton.  You wake up thinking that it will be a sunny, humid day and all ...

... .  Really pretty although there seems to be a lot of logging going on which is sad. We arrived in the outskirts of Kumasi around 4:30 and were met by heavy traffic.  Always weird to go from tiny villages to massive cities.  We are ...

... suis parti vers l ancienne capitale des ashanti. C est un tres ancien empire tres puissant qui controlait le commerce de l or (l ancien nom du ghana etait la cote d or). Il ne reste pas grand chose du passe, sauf un palais avec son souverain ashanti.

... are dead......A short walk for an hour or so with one of the local guides was great, lots of monkey photo opportunities. Kumasi in central Ghana is home to the once powerful kingdom of the Ashanti people. They had their part to play in the slave trade ...

... know if you going to be lucky the whole time and find the same hospitality ahead". It turns out that I'd got, from Mauritania to Ghana, nothing but pure, wholehearted generosity, so I piled up CFAs upon CFAs, a French couple gave me 40€ and I never ...

... to get food and play basketball. Then we parted ways with Emanuel and hailed another cab so we could go into the center of Kumasi for a little exploration. We took this cab to Baboo Bazaar for lunch. It cost us five Cedis to take this 30 minute ride ...

... anyways, because we wasted his whole day and we were reallly appreciative.  We didn't do much else in Kumasi. We left on sunday morning because ghana essentially shuts down on sundays, and it wouldve been boring to stay on a day with nothing to do-- ...

... into an impossible perimeter an even more impossible number of people/things. Come see, it's worth it!   Kumasi deixou-me como primeira impressao um pais profundamente religioso, os passeios estando inundados de paineis indicando igrejas ...

... but it got us a beer, Oliver having to wait about an hour for the change.  There is a serious lack of change in Ghana.  Actually, make that the whole of Africa.  You hand over a note and they look at you like you're an idiot when you ask ...

... kill him right now, or feel ashamed. I definitely am going to watch more Ghanaian TV before I leave! Anyways - have come up to Kumasi, and my bus didn't break down, but was 2 hours late - will be going to Kramokrom to meet friends tomorrow. Less than 1 ...

Zivjo! Vceraj sva po celodnevni voznji iz obale prispela v Kumasi - drugo najvecje mesto Gane. Voznja do sem niti ni bila tako zelo naporna, saj smo se vozili po zelo dobrih cestah, prav tako pa se nama tudi vozniki zdijo v redu.Voznik nasega mini ...