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Dixcove and Butre
... It was a fun week, albeit the main memories will be police road blocks, hitting pot holes at speed and antibiotics (for once not for me!). The police blocks are great fun. Expats in a car = potential for getting money. We were stopped a few times and asked to provide driving licences, where we going, what were doing in Ghana. As recommended we gave photo copies of licences, to avoid the real licence being stolen. Usually this was okay, although one particularly nice police ...
Busua and Beyond
... Mama watching the girls in action. Although they all have different personalities, they all share the same ambition to help those in need but most importantly they all have respect for the culture, tradition and people of Ghana.
A few weekends ago we all packed into an expedition bus and headed to Busua for a weekend of sun tanning, good food, beach combing and surfing. The expedition aka party bus holds 30 people, ...
Rain rain go away come again another day!
... we’re quite often in Kumasi in the afternoons) and he tends to go to bed at 8ish because he’s so tired! In all fairness, the times I’ve been up and about after 9pm, its felt like 3am (unless Yakubu is in the house, then his TV is usually on). It was really good to actually spend a weekend with him though.
Baptiste and Alice are two other volunteers from BUNAC who are living in the Kumasi area. Baptiste is teaching and Alice is on another HIV/AIDS project; they ...
Easter Utopia
... for hours (some of us longer than others) with wind, dust and tree branches blowing in our faces. We quenched our extreme thirst with bear beer, jager and rum n' coke. We ventured off the beaten path to explore a mysterious new World. When the vehicles reached a dead end, we scooped up our possessions and continued on foot. In single file we trudged through the jungle for over twenty minutes in 40 degrees heat with anticipation after every twist and turn ...
Fortsetzung
... die einzigen Touris auf den Brücken waren. Am Wochenende sollen sie regelrecht geflutet sein… Da wir schon so einen guten Start mit der Mamba hatten, beschlossen wir kurzerhand im Regenwald zu nächtigen. Der Nationalpark selber bot Übernachtung via s.g. Treehut Camping an.
Sehr abenteuerlich haben sie ein großes Baumhaus in ca. 8 Meter Höhe gebaut und ...


