Kumasi Travel Guide

 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... 

 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... 

 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.... 

 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. 

 atufft Says:  The Ashanti Cultural Arts Center also has some furniture makers, some who use plank boards carved in ornate ways, and others who make cane furniture. We were lucky enough to have a friend include some of the cane furniture in a container that she shipped to California,... 

 atufft Says:  The African cotton fabrics are in general wonderful for their rich colors. There are a great many exotic print fabrics available in the marketplace, but watching batik coloring of fabric is fun. My friend and guide found a like minded young woman who explained to me how the... 

 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. 

 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... 

 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... 

 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:  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...