Strangely enough here in Ghana you will be asked after your Ghanaian name very often. Your Ghanaian name is the day on which you were born. So for every day there exists two names in Twi, one for females and one for men. As no one ever asked me about […]
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The Kakum National Park offers a popular walk on a Canopy Walkway. Inside the jungle you can walk on wooden bridges through the jungle and when you are lucky you can observe the wild life. But you should be used with high altitudes or at least not having so many […]
Later on that day, after visiting Elmina Castle, we went back to Cape Coast. There we walked to the Cape Coast Castle and did another tour. It was almost the same but only with a bigger group of people. Cape Coast itself is a nice little city. The beach is […]
Something funny: urinating or shitting is lucky prohibited at the beach, but still it is not that clean As the name of Cape Coast already reveals, the city is situated at the seaside, on the west side of Accra. My weekend there was more or less a sight-seeing tour than […]
View from the hostal In Kumasi I’m doing an internship. Work starts at 8 am and end for me at 4 pm with a one hour break. I have to use public transport to go to work. The public transport systems consists out of vans,which are called Tro-Tros. In a […]
On the 8th of August the Ramadan ended. This was celebrated huge in the city center of Kumasi. There was a big procession going on. It started around 3 pm and I’m not sure when it did come to an end. From every tribe the king was sitting on top […]
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And again I ‹m travelling. This time something got me to Ghana. Perhaps you are asking yourself now where Ghana is located. Ghana is located in Westafrica and its capital is named Accra. I will be spending most of my time in Kumasi, which is located around 230 km in […]