Picorna Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tamale
If It wasn't for Bad Luck...
Sidenote: I haven't had internet access for awhile and I've been keeping all my entries in a small traveling journal, I just got back to the US so I will be posting the rest of my experience as soon as I can.
****! I woke up at 6;18am rather than my original planned time of 5am, I guess I accidently set my alarm on silent (why is there a …
There's more than one way to get to Mole
So the trip to Mole (pronounced: Mol-ay) is long and tough as I mentioned before, but I didn't know how hard it was going to be. Warning, this entry has a lot of detail, but I felt it was necessary to explain the full experience :) Took a trotro from Cape Coast to Kumasi, which I've done before and was no big deal. There's actually a U of C med …
Tamale to Mole - the saga continues
Not sure why the Picorna Hotel got such a poor review in Lonely Planet - I thought it was great! Not only was the hotel well kept, with good A/C, and a nice restaurant that made me food after 9PM, but the manager was really helpful in letting me know about getting to Mole. He even has a friend, Sadik, come by the next morning at around 8AM to take …
Thoughts of site visit
I am just getting back from my first site visit. Unfortunately my housing is not completed but hopefully it will be done before I get back in December. Anyways, we arrived late on the 10th after a long bus ride from Kumasi to Tamale then a taxi to my site. I was exhausted and hot by the time we got there. We were dropped off in the middle of town and had to walk to my counterparts house to drop my things off. After that I met various people who are a part of the farmers group that ...
Mole National Park
... the first one was to a women’s Shea Butter co-operative called Pagsung, which is located in a small village not far from the downtown area. We spent around two hours learning about the women and the process of making Shea butter. The women who are actively involved in every stage of the Shea butter making process own this co-operative and are providing a way for other women to maintain their autonomy and positively contribute to the well being ...
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