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Kumasi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kumasi, Ghana
Wood Carvings
This is a top pick! Next we're off to Ntonso and Ahwiaa to see some traditional woodcarvers. At our first stop we see a group of about 10 men sitting inside a wooden box with a roof, much like a sandbox and they are all carving unity symbols. They are the coolest figures ...
Kings and A Sword
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bonwire - The Kente Capital
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Lunch At Couples
This is a top pick! ... is 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 ...
From Akosombo to Kumasi
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Sunday - Our Lazy Day
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Kumasi- Markets and Mayhem
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Travel and Traditional with Butterflies
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 ...
IBV's Last day in Kumasi
... our 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 ...
Work Back on Campus
... 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 ...
Rivstart =0) fast anda inte?!
... klarade 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!!! ...
Ashanti capital
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" ...
Time For A Rest
... fighting that scourge of travellers- the funny tummy, so we’ve decide to down tools and rest at a lake near Kumasi, Ghana. Getting to Kumasi means one more hard day of travel but there are a couple of worthwhile sites on the way…provided, of ...
Kumasi: the second largest city in Ghana.
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, ...
July 8, Day 8 Accra to Kumasi
... us 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 ...
July 8th - Back to Hospital
... . 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 ...
July 10th - Journey to Emmanuel's Village
... 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 ...
Friii som en fagel!
... i 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 ...
Day 29 July 29 Ouagadougou to Kumasi
... 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 ...
July 6th and 7th - Sunday and Monday's Crazy Day
... 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 ...
Lake Bosomtwe (Eng+Pt)
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 ...
Kumasi, June 25, 2009 – Thursday
... and then went down again, along the Prempeh II Avenue. That particular Prempeh II was one of the most important historical figures Kumasi gave to Ghana. He had been until his death in 1970 for 35 years the Ashanti king. However, what sets him apart from ...
Ashanti Kingdom
... 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 ...
Kumasi, June 27, 2009 – Saturday
... best and that was it. Now the only thing left for me was to go downtown to the S.T.C. bus terminal, board my bus and leave Kumasi. Francisca asked if I’d be able to find the terminal and if I needed help. I assured her that I’d be just fine. ...
July 3rd - Our first day in the City
... all this before 11 a.m. which was quite successful . We then began our long drive. The drive from Accra to Kumasi was quite an interesting experience. It was about a five hour drive with about an hour lunch break. ...
Kumasi, June 24, 2009 – Wednesday
... we started out. Again, I wasn't exactly going to stay strictly downtown, but rather in a part of the city called Kegyase. Kumasi is the second largest Ghanaian city, not much smaller than Accra. For three centuries it was the royal capital of what some ...
First ever shakespearean incursion
... 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 ...
weekend getaway
... 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 ...
Obese Goats, Dried Animal heads, Trucks in condoms
... to 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 ...
Zapustila obalo
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 ...