Visa no. 12: Togo on arrival

Togo gives visa on arrival, 7 days, for 10,000cfa. The visa can be later extended in Lomé. I had to fill up a form and the main problem was telephone number in Togo that I had to provide. I copied two phone numbers of My Diana Guesthouse from The Rough Guide to West Africa and […]

I don’t want to leave Accra

Cape Coast to Accra: homecoming

I have no idea how many times I have been to Accra. It was my first visit to Africa, in December 2001 but the next visit was only in 2005 and since then every year several trips, all work-related, followed. At the beginning I used to stay in Novotel, right in downtown, a convenient place […]

A day in Cape Coast and Elmina

The day would be easy. Cape Coast and Elmina are I think one of Ghana’s biggest attractions with their slave forts and they are not far from Ghana yet another tourist attraction – Kakum National Park with its famous (possibly because it’s the only one around) canopy walk. Kakum National Park I’d seen once, it […]

Abidjan to Cape Coast

It took me long time to get off bed. I am not rushing to Ghana. I went out, had my coffees, a sandwich with some meat inside, tasty, and I also stocked up on gauze in a pharmacy that after the long holidays was finally open. I left maybe at 11am. There is little information […]