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Favorite thing: my friend tema is very close to accra.as a matter of fact if its nigeria its not a distance.it cant cost you more than 5 cedi maximum it can be less.thats around 350 naira.but for a whole day you can negotiate with the cab driver.it will be reasonable.Ghana is another intersting destination in Africa West because of its numerous tourism and culture places.its city life is very vibrant and the people are friendly too.there are a lot of ffods to eat and places of relaxation are many.interms of security its safe than some part of Africa little wonder the US president' visit to the country.

Fondest memory: MY FONDEST MEMORY OF GHANA IS THE NIGHT LIFE WHICH IS ALWAYS ENDELESS.THE FOODS WHICH WHEN YOU WALK ON THE STREET ESPECIALLY TUDU AREA YOU SAVOUR THE AROMA OF WONDERFUL GHANAIAN DELICACIES CALLING YOU TO HAVE A TASTE.AWAY FROM GHANA I ALWAYS MISS THE FOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL SUN LIGHT DURING THE DAY.

Favorite thing: A Forex is where you change money. It is kind of intimidating as we are used to going to a bank or ATM. There aren't many ATM's and I would advise against them. Too many horror stories. Forex places have the cash, decent rates and you're out in a flash.

Favorite thing: Hi, I must say you are lucky to have falling in the right hands, that is i work with a Registered NGO that deal with your area of interest. we are located in the northern part of Ghana. Actually we have charges but for some reasons i will advice that because this is a chance of meeting you on line i will say in you are interested in coming through our organization i will give you the guide lines for you to make your decision. you can contact me at africaadventuretrails@yahoo.com

We have a website but its currently underconstraction. this was what we where using previouly but now changing it to a more professional site since we have expanded our project.
old site is www.sweb.cz/tumtiwuni
I hope to read from you soon.

Initiator
Mariam Zakaria

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Favorite thing: Savannah Kids Education Project is a young project, founded with the aim to give underprivileged children in the north of Ghana the possibility to follow primary and secondary education. Unfortunately there are many families in Ghana with the lack of financial means to send their children to school. Because of that many children end up at the streets, where they try to earn some money as hawker or a shoe shine boy. S.K.E.P. wants to see these children back at school, where they belong. By giving these children the possibility to follow education now, they will have hope for a better future.

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Favorite thing: THE PEOPLE OF GHANA ,
NIGHTLIFE IN GHANA ,
INTERESTING CASTLELS AND SLAVE FORTS ,
KAKUM NATIONAL PARK
WATERFALLS ,
NATURE ,
LAKE (AND) RIVER VOLTA
BUSIA BEACH ( WESTERN REGION )
RAILWAY BETW. KUMASI AND TAKORADI
...AND MUCH MORE!

Fondest memory: THE PEOPLE OF GHANA

Favorite thing: The local currency in Ghana is the Cedi. One Cedi is close to nothing, so there are no Cedi-cents or something. At the time of writing (begin 2007) the rate was very easy compared to the US Dollar: 10.000 Cedis is about 1 US Dollar. That is why in all my tips, I used this rate to indicate prices.

In Ghana, you hardly use coins to pay with, simply because they are hardly worth anything. The bills that you will are 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 and 20.000 Cedis. A quick calculation tells that the highest banknote is only worth 2 Dollars, so when you want to pay something quite expensive, you will need a whole lot of banknote. For example, an average lunch will cost you about 35.000 Cedis, a busticket from Accra to Tamale costs 120.000 Cedis, but when you want to buy a planeticket, it will cost you at least 5 minutes to count the 1.200.000 Cedis you need to pay for that!

Most of the banknotes are very dirty and smelly, especially the 1.000, 2.000 and 5.000, because they are used to most and are the oldest. Besides the banknote there are coins of 500, 200, 100 and even 50 Cedis, of which the last one is worth $ 0,005!!!

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Favorite thing: One good thing about Ghana is the fact that English is widely spoken. Not by everyone, but wherever you come, there will always be someone around who speaks English. BUT: there is a big different in pronounciation between "normal" English and Ghanaian/African English. And it can take a while before you are completely used to it. A few examples of typical things for this Ghanaian accent:

- You will never hear the word "ask" in Ghana. Everybody in the country uses "AKS" instead. With a Brittish "a", not the American version.

- All other words with "sk" are wrongly pronounced too: "deks" instead of "desk", "moks" instead of "mosque" and "taks" instead of "task".

- All word ending on "er" in Ghana end on "a". "Water" becomes "wotta" and "Peter" becomes "Peetta".

- "Three" is pronounced as "tri" by everybody, and "thousand" as "tousand".

- Small, little, few, and everything indicating something like it, is called "small small" in Ghana. "I talk English small small..."

- Other words that are funnily pronounced are "flim" instead of "film" or "tessi" instead of "taxi".

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Favorite thing: The Dagomba people, although they live in close proximity to the Gonja people, sometimes in the same village, they speak a totally different language: the Dagbani language, which belongs to the More-Dagbani sub-group of Gur languages. The main group of Dagomba people live in Burkina Faso, with subgroups such as this group of about 650,000 Dagbamba in Ghana, who live in an area of around 8,000 square miles.

The Dagbamba culture is a very sophisticated oral culture alhtough lacking in written culture), which centres around the drum and other musical instruments. Their culture is heavily influenced by Islam.