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The Big market (Kumasi market)
georeiser Says: Kumasi market is the largest open air market in Ghana, and the second largest in Africa. The market is famous in W-Africa, and traders come from other countries to sell their goods here. The market is a sprawling and chaotic place. It is located right in the city centre, on...
georeiser Says: Ghana zoo is a well established zoo, founded in 1957. The location in the downtown is great with the big marked is right beside. You enter through a gate where the ticket counter is a table to the right side. Quite basic and typical African. The first thing you see is a...
See traditional brass casting in a village setting
Fiema Says: Get out of the city to one of the craft villages - there is a well worn tourist route to the North East - Kente, Adinkra and carving villages - but you should also try Krofrom to the South a brass casting village, about 30 minutes from town. There are buses but its easier to...
Ashanti Cultural Arts Center: Bronze Casting
atufft Says: The Ashanti were skilled at both iron and bronze work for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. Very large bronze work startled the first Europeans, both for the skill and artistic quality. At the Ashanti Cultural Arts Center, there is a bronze master who...
atufft Says: In the open air market, currency are traded, jewelry sold, pots & pans, clothing, and a vast number of foodstuffs are sold, including freshly butchered meat. The butchers didn't like me taking photos of them while they worked, so I have only this one image of a smiling...
atufft Says: Close to the city center on a hill that dominates the city, there is a complex of run down colonial era brick and clapboard buildings, which were originally the location of the Ashanti king's fortifications, later British military housing, and today Ghana military housing....
More People Pictures from Kumasi
atufft Says: My new compact printer gadget helped boost my ability to get lovely images. The young handsome people working in the fabric section of the marketplace easily matched the brilliant colors of their background.
Dimlite Snacks: Dimlite Catering Services
georeiser Says: Dimlite Snacks is a popular African eating place. The place doesn't look too inviting when you see it from the street. You have to pass through a narrow entrance to get inside. But the food is good and cheap. Locals use this place a meeting point or have their lunch...
Eating places in the city: Typical food in Kumasi
georeiser Says: The typical food in Kumasi is Fufu with hot light paper soup, or Fufu with groundnut soup, or Fufu with Palmnut oil soup and with some bush meet. The Akan man can not do a good meal without Fufu. As for Kumasi area there are no taboo for a particular food during the day.
Street Pubs: Bantama High Street
tourlocale Says: A vibrant street lined with numerous open air pubs serving all kinds of Continental and local alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages as well as meat-on-sticks (kebabs). A very lively place to relax and people watch in the evening especially from Thursdays to Sundays in the...
Pieter11 Says: Kumasi is a very nice place to go out for a drink at night. Night in Ghana is only until midnight, but in the few hours that are left there are some nice places to sit down and enjoy the nightlife in the city. Kumasi has a lot of small drinking spots that are pretty quiet at...
georeiser Says: Travel by road between Accra and Kumasi takes approx 4-5 hours. Main coach companies, like V.I.P., with large vehicles are normally quicker and a lot more comfortable than the Tro-Tro's or the ordinary bus services.Price from 30-60 GHC.
atufft Says: We had not tour group, but we were frequently lucky enough in Ghana to come up with a local "friend" who was typically willing and able to spend all day and night with us. That's the hospitality of Ghana, and West Africa in general. Nothing was demanded, while at the end a...
Modell clothes: Cyntia Boutique
georeiser Says: Cyntia Boutique is a good shop for nice female clothes. A model photographer has a studio the same building, and clothes from Cyntia is popular among the models there. The building is located in a busy street on a hill above the big market. Women's Clothes
Open Air Market and Other Places: Kola Nuts
atufft Says: In Chinua Achebe's classic English novel, Things Fall Apart, the tradition bound main character frequently "breaks the kola nut" in the presence of ruling elders and kings. For tourists passing through Kumasi, it's a wise idea to stock up on kola nuts as a gift for...
grets Says: The isles leading through Kumasi Market are very narrow and criss-cross the market in every direction. Take great note of which way you are going, as it would be incredibly easy to get lost. You may be able to use one of the tall buildings outside the market as a bearing and...
grets Says: Kumasi market is crowded to the extreme and you could very easily fall victim to pick-pockets. Although Kumasi is not a dangerous place per se, take care of your belongings - don’t leave wallets sticking out of your back pocket for instance. It only takes one bad apple to...
grets Says: The beans, complete with the pulp, are piled in heaps on the ground for several days, during which time the pulp ferments and runs off. Without this fermentation process the cocoa beans will not taste right. Some producers also use the liquified pulp to make alcohol. The...
grets Says: The cocoa pods have a thick outer shell, which contains up to 50 beans contained in a sweet pulp. Although this pulp is edible (in fact it is very nice – we tried sucking a covered bean and it tasted a little like mange to me), the pulp (called baba de cacao) is imperative...
Women carrying items on their heads
georeiser Says: The African women are carrying buckets or other items on their heads. They often carry heavy items for long distances. Learning to carry items on the head and keeping the balance is not an easy task for a white person. It takes years of training.
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On the way back to Kumasi from Bosumtwi Lake, we visited a cocoa plantation. Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented oily seed of the cacao tree. Although...
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The centre of the Ashanti Kingdom
Kumasi was once the capital city of the Ashanti Kingdom and a beautiful town of whitewashed buildings with thatched roofs. Then came the British. The old city was burnt down in 1873, followed by...
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Capitol for the Ashanti Kingdom
Accra was the colonial capital for the British, and the modern day capitol of Ghana naturally arose from the colonial roots. However, prior to this time, Kumasi was the capitol for the very powerful...
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Kumasi, centre of the Ashanti's
Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city, is also the capital of the Ashanti Region: the remains of the once powerful Kingdom that used to rule over big parts of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo and Benin....
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Kumasi, the Garden city of Africa
The city of Kumasi is by many people most known for the big marked, which is the next largest in Africa. The city is also called the Garden city of Africa due to its vegetation and parks. Kumasi is......
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