Accra to Lomé: hello fever

How I didn’t want to leave Accra. It was comfortable & familiar. But then there is a schedule that runs on me. 1 May is holiday, I got two visas to handle in Cotonou and it would be good to be in Lagos over weekend, after all people work and Lagos isn’t a place where […]

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 […]

Then we take Berlin

I normally ignore countries for which I have to get a visa and all the following apply: the consulate is not in my city and I have to wait for days for visa to be issued and the visa is not on arrival. It just isn’t worth the wasted time and energy and money when […]

Visa no. 1: Ghana

Visas suck. West Africa is full of visas. Most of the time you won’t know where to get a visa for each country, how much it will cost, how long will it take to get one. It’s even worse when you live in an unimportant country, like Poland, where of all West Africa there is […]