Akosombo Continental Hotel

... at them at their most impressive time &#8211; just after the rainy season, when they are in full flow. <br><br>As Ghana is not really geared up for tourism or to exploit any opportunities to market their areas of natural beauty, we were not holding out much hope for the waterfalls before our arrival. However, when the forest cleared and we saw the pair of falls, our breath was certainly taken ...

Ich hab noch einen Nachtrag zu meinem letzten diebischen Blogeintrag: Blessed habe ich zwar wie **wartet nicht mehr gesehen, dafu** waren am Samstagmorgen die Gitt** an meinem Zimm**fenst** aufgebogen und das Moskitonetz z**fledd**t. So wies aussah, hatte ein weit**** Langfing** waehrend ich schlief seinen Arm durchs Fenst** gesteckt und sich das wenige, was auf meinem Tisch lang, gekrallt: Ein bisschen Kleingeld und meine (zum Glueck billige) Armbanduhr, die die meisten von ...

Hello!!! I made it! Everything has gone wonderfully so far. Huge culture shock, but I think I am adjusting. There is so much I want to share, but I don't know where to start! It may be brief for now since i have little time and no photos. I wasn't planning on doing this today... I arrived in Accra on Friday night and was picked up by the coordinator. I stayed in a hostel on Friday night and we drove ...

... at about 7 PM, so we only made it as far as the town of Logba Alekpeti; this is a tiny little strip of typical Ghanian booth-stores. Since we couldn't get to the guesthouses, we stayed at the pitch-dark Adzotor Hotel. We had to yell for a while before the guy came and unlocked the gate to let us in. We were the only residents at the hotel, so we decided to go back out to mingle with the locals. We got a lady to make us some dinner, and took pictures in the dark to make sure it ...

... internet were faster here because I took a pictrure of the baby and I'd love to share it with everyone right now! Yesterday I helped take care of a severe laceration on a 4 year old girl who had been involved in a well accident. She was screaming as we put antiseptic, but it was necessary because the local treatment here is to mix herbs with dirt, so we were worried of an infection if we left it as it was when she came in. Today was filled with seeing ...

Dream Rating: &nbsp ; ; ; A Background I spent the morning and early afternoon in Accra. Other people on the tour who chose alternatives to backtracking to Kumasi gradually arrived at the joining hotel and we all waited for the truck. Daphne, Dave, and the remainder of the group arrived mid-afternoon, after which we braved Accra's traffic to head northeast towards Togo. We stopped for the night at a hotel resort a few hours out of Accra where ...

Aft** a v**y brief visit in Kpalime, we headed south. An even brief** stop in Lome was all we needed to head out of town to the suburbs. Lome is hidious! Absolutely heaving all the time, with people rushing ev**y wh**e and desp**ately trying to get you to take th**e moto taxi as soon as you put atoe outside of the trotro door! For some reason we're both feeling exhausted so stopped at a little aub**ge on the outskirts of the city for 2 days. Apparently th**e was a beach a ...

It was difficult to stay hygienically clean in a situatation where there was no running water, no flushing toilets, no soap dispensers nor hand towels. The climate was humid, children played in the dirt and the grime had an inexplicable way of sticking steadfastly to you. Team this with the fact that at meal times people over here eat with their hands and you can see how health and sanitation is a huge issue. This was a much more serious problem at ...

Last weekend turned out to be not so chilled as initially planned, our time at Kokrabite was great fun and playing in the sea was not to be missed, but some bad weather and a few very early starts meant that the majority of people left more worn out than refreshed. We left Kokrabite on the monday at the ungodly hour of 5am to meet our Tro Tro at some random service station just outside of Accra. The journey back was not much better than the one down, with us finally ...