Paga Travel Guide

 Pieter11 Says:  One of the very typical things you should see in the area north from Bolgatanga, are the houses with complex drawings on the walls. The village of Sirigu is famous for it, but in Paga you can see them too. Here you will see the local symbol, the crocodile, painted on the... 

 Pieter11 Says:  The mainattraction of Paga are the sacred crocodiles that live there. In two "crocodile ponds" there are hundreds of them. There are many different stories about how these crocs became sacred, but the central point is that one day the crocodiles promissed the people of Paga... 

 Pieter11 Says:  Another clearly commercially exploited thing in Paga is its Chief's Palace. In both Tamale and Wa I visited one too, and both times it was for free and I was welcomed sincerely and spontaneously. In Paga though, it was indicated with tourist signs, and there was a entrance... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  After dinner the crocodile doesn’t see reason anymore to amuse tourists, and lazily slides back into the water. The whole ceremony took some 20 minutes, and I found it big fun…I didn’t expect a breathtaking and too serious attraction , and that’s why I enjoyed, and that’s... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  After feeding the crocodile, I approached him with my camera. He was hoping to get it, as he widely opened his mouth. I wondered what’s the real relationship between people and animal here. Are these crocodiles just an ordinary way of generating money, or were it really the... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  When all photo’s have been taken, the patient reptile finally gets what he got out of the water for: the fowl!And the crocodiles are really patient! According to the menu, groups up to 20 members can have their photo taken with just one fowl for all! In such cases, the bird... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  The main reason that – especially domestic - tourists come here is to have there photo taken while holding the tail of these friendly creatures. On that Sunday afternoon I saw quite a lot of Ghanaians coming, mostly couples or families in private cars, dressed as properly as... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  It depends on the seasons and the time of the day whether the crocodiles are fancy to show up soon, but eventually one will appears!It lasted 15 minutes of hard work by 3 guides before a big, lazy reptile finally came out of the water. A rather young crocodile. The guide... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  At dawn I went to the border to buy some bread and tea. When I returned at the summerhut near the Pond, the guides were ready to call out the first croc of the day! The guides are necessary to entice a crocodile from the Pond; as otherwise you will not be able to see any. To... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  If you want to stay overnight in Paga you can sleep on the roof of the newly built Visitor’s Centre.The Visitor’s Centre is usually manned (by a very nice lady) during daytime and it’s a good idea to get some information there. It also houses a shop with local crafts... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  Guides are awaiting customers in a signposted summerhut situated between the Pond and the road. In the past, you had to negotiate the fees with uncompromising individuals. In recent times however the village of Paga has been developed under the Community Based Ecotourism... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  When I finally saw the sign “Welcome in Ghana” I felt sheer happiness. Back to Ghana! My first stop would be the Chief Crocodile Pond in Paga, just across the border… The three Crocodile Ponds together contain over 300 Nile Crocodiles, that have been considered sacred by the... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  The slaves had a “wide range” of entertainment options as they made music on the rocks!By hitting the Musical Rocks with smaller stones, you can produce some cool percussion sounds. Different stones, different tones; different part of the surface, different sound. The slaves... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  Nania Paga is a settlement about 2 kilometres from Paga where you can do an interesting guided tour around a historic slave camp.During early 19th century, this so called Pikworo Slave Camp was the main camp in the Upper East Region where slaves were kept after been captured... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  The Paga Pio was the first Chief I visited in this region and I regard the visit as interesting, but the attitude of the people here was not very inviting.Not that the Palace itself isn’t interesting enough – certainly it is - , but the business-like attitude here didn’t... 

 Bonobo2005 Says:  The Palace of the Chief, who is the boss of all traditional Chiefs in the region, is a conglomeration of several hundreds of rooms, many of them traditionally build of mud, tree limbs and cow dung. As the family expands, the Palace extends as well as it’s common that family...