Safari Beach Lodge Busua

, Akwidaa Busua, Ghana

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Dixcove and Butre

A travel blog entry by brammiller

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... slaves were kept, but oddly was run as a guesthouse by a British guy until a few years ago and so in places is more like a field studies centre. He is now building a big guesthouse next to it, which I cannot imagine anyone ever staying at.

We then spent an age driving down a very bumpy dirt track to Butre, where there is an old Portugese fort (I think). This was more like a medieval castle, surrounded by a very poor small town. Luckily an American volunteer set up ...

Busua and Beyond

A travel blog entry by mpopowich

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... from future!

The next week whipped by and the weekend arrived before we knew it. Most of the girls went to Kakum for an over night camping trip. After finding out about all of the poisonous snakes in Ghana at the Monkey Sanctuary, they arrived at the National Park and were escorted to their room high in the trees - their very own tree house. The guide advised them to tuck their pants into their socks at ...

Rain rain go away come again another day!

A travel blog entry by loopylou52

... it was already full. So we joined the back of the queue to wait for the next bus. This is how we ended up waiting 5 hours for a bus – record amount of time for our travels so far! We spent a long time deliberating over whether we should bail and try to either get a tro or the STC (similar type of transport to National Express, but Ghanaian. They also have a timetable of sorts) but in the end we decided that we had waited for so long for the metro mass, if we bailed one ...

Easter Utopia

A travel blog entry by mpopowich

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... sleeping areas - each featuring private walkouts and ocean views. Steve, the brainy builder from Sabre Trust (a local NGO that teaches teachers teaching techniques) arranged transportation fit for a king, waterproof and wind resistant tents and other camping essentials including ergonomically appropriate camp chairs, posture perfect beds and campfire banter.

Our days were filled with beachcombing, hikes, bowl ball, cricket, wave jumping, surfing, ...

Fortsetzung

A travel blog entry by vincact

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... schwarzen Skorpion.

Um die Kultur nicht ganz zu vernachlässigen machten wir uns am nächsten Tag auf den Weg nach Cape Coast. Dort befindet sich eines der ältesten Schlösser Ghanas, welches in früheren Zeiten besonders für den Sklavenhandel verwendet wurde. Durch eine sehr beeindruckende Führung, wurde das Ganze zu einem wirklich eindrucksvollen Ausflug. ...