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Ghanaian traffic

by Pieter11

One great thing about Ghana, and Africa in general actually, is that you can expect everything on the roads. No such things as special buslanes, "no trucks allowed here" or special car inspections before you are allowed to drive with it: as long as it CAN drive, it WILL drive.During my period in Ghana, I've seen the weirdest thing driving around: 30 year old pick-ups that need a reparation everytime they want to start it, small busses with 20 goats tied up on its roof, taxi's without a dashboard and with a frontwindow that only stays in because of the metres of tapes it is stuck together with, and old trucks that are used to transport at least 50 people with.And besides these motorized vehicles you also see handkarts being pulled, a lot of chinese scooters, countless bicycles with baskets attached to the steer and women with enormous buckets filled with water on their heads. No matter...

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Shared Taxi's

by Pieter11

The cheapest way to get around within a city or between two towns, is by taking the "shared taxi". These taxi's have fixed routes through the city centre: normally only one main road that they do up and down over and over again. The driver in a shared taxi is always looking for more passengers for his taxi and he will stop whenever he sees that there is someone in need of a taxi. Up to 5 passengers can fit in a taxi. This makes that a trip that normally would take only 5 minutes might take 15 minutes because there are a lot of other people getting in and out. But the big advantage of a shared taxi is: a normal trip will not cost you more then 3000 cedis: $ 0,30.When you are the first to enter the shared taxi, it is wise to remember the driver that you want it to be SHARED, otherwise you will turn it into a "drop taxi" all of a sudden and charge you 10 times the normal price. When you are...

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Antrak Air

by Pieter11

An easy and fast way to get around in Ghana, also is quite an expensive way. This way is by flying with Antrak Air. This is a local airline that connects the three biggest cities of the country with eachother: Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. Besides this, they also fly internationally in the region to Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, and to Germany.To be honest I don't see the use of the flights from Accra and Tamale to Kumasi. From both cities it "only" takes about six hours to get to the Ashanti-capital, and the flight are much more expensive than the connections by bus. But from Accra to Tamale or the other way, it can be useful. The bus connections are OK, but take very long. The official time from Accra to Tamale is 12 hours, but I had one time when it took me 18 hours. Than it can be worth it to spend $ 130,- on a flight of 1:20 hours, instead of the $ 17,- for the bustrip.One more...

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Flying to Ghana

by Pieter11

When you are searching for a cheap flight to Accra, and you are leaving from Europe, you should check out Alitalia first. This Italian company is the cheapest of all. Other cheap option (but I don't know how reliable) are the Libian Air Afriqiyah and the Ghanaian Antrak Air.When you are flying from North America too, Alitalia is a cheap option, just as Delta Airlines and North American Airlines.

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Kotoka International Airport

by Pieter11

If you travel to Ghana by airplane, you will always arrive at the only international airport of the country: Kotoka International Airport in Accra. It is situated at only a few kilometres away from the city centre, to the northeast. There are a few important things that are useful to know:- A very big problem at the airport are all the taxidrivers who try to fool you when you get out of the airport. The arrival hall officially is closed for public, but even inside the airport there are people who try to take money from you. Don't trust anyone you don't know inside or outside the airport.It's the best to arrange someone to pick you up at the airport, but if that is not possible, you should bargain a lot with the taxidrivers before you enter their taxi. When I once tried to take a taxi back to Accra from the airport, the driver that wanted to take began with the ridiculous price of 160.000...

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Drop Taxi's

by Pieter11

In Ghana there is a huge difference between so called "drop taxi's" and "shared taxi's". In most cities and towns there are shared taxi's that have fixed routes through the city. To know these routes however, you really need to know the way around. If you don't, it is much easier to take the more expensive drop taxi.Any taxi that is empty will be happy to bring you anywhere you want, simply because the driver make more money being a "drop taxi" than with a shared one. A drop taxi doesn't have fixed prices though, so you really should start with bargaining before you get in. Don't let them fool you by asking too much, because even though drop taxi's are more expensive then shared ones, they still are very cheap in Ghana.For example a random trip through Accra, that takes 30 minutes, will never cost you more then 20.000 cedis ($ 2,-) and even if you leave the city centre, you should never...

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Metro Mass Busses

by Pieter11

Another way of transportation by bus is Metro Mass. This is a bus company with less luxurious busses then the STC, with cheaper rates and with routes that, unlike STC, also cross bad, bumpy roads. They also connect the bigger cities of the country, but with more connections and more often than the STC ones.The Metro-Mass busses most of the times depart from a Tro-Tro-station, but in other places they sometimes have their own station. All the busses are easy to recognise: they are all orange. The rates are more or less the same as the rates of the Tro-Tro, but as disadvantage that they only leave once or twice a day to most destinations, and that they charge luggage-fees. Metro-Mass sells their tickets starting a day before departure, and it is often wise to buy them as soon as possible, because otherwise you take the risk of having to stand all the while. Metro Mass doesn't see it as a...

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STC Busses

by Pieter11

The most comfortable way to get around in Ghana are the STC Busses. These busses normally are fully airconditioned and have good, comfortable seats. STC is one of the most decent companies in the country, with clear schedules of when the busses are driving, and what everything costs, but like everything in Africa, it is not as perfectly organised as it seems: the busses ALWAYS are delayed (sometimes up to 6 hours!) and it is possible to get on board by just paying the staff illegally. But besides that, the busses are good value and the connections are fast and efficient. There are connections between almost all major cities in the country like Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Tema, Ho and Wa, but also some international connections to Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. Schedules of when and where these connections are available are in every STC station.These STC stations are in a...

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Tro-Tro's

by Pieter11

The most important way of transportation in Ghana is the Tro-Tro. A Tro-Tro is every vehicle that is bigger then a normal car and smaller then a bus. It can be anything: vans, pick-ups, small busses...Every trip in a Tro-Tro is an adventure. The vehicles always are at least 20 years old, they are extremely uncomfortable, and very, very packed. In a small van they can fit at least 18 people. But the Tro-Tro is the cheapest possible way of transportation, often it is the only way to get somewhere, and it is the perfect way to get to know the real Ghana and the real Ghanaians.Every town in Ghana has its own Tro-Tro, or Lorry-station. There often is some structure in the station, but the easiest way to find the correct tro-tro quickly is by asking. Once you get to the tro-tro you have to buy your ticket, that is very, very cheap. The average price for an hour is about $ 1,-, or 10.000 cedis....

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Lorry

by grets

These huge trucks, known locally as a lorry (as is any large vehicle used to carry passengers) are found all over the country. Usually they were travelling at speed in the opposite direction when I saw them, so I was unable to take a photograph of them, but this one was just leaving the market (which also doubled as the bus station) in Yendi just as we were entering on foot as luck would have it. I was jolly glad we had our own tourist transport! I shouldn’t think the lorry would be very comfortable, it would be hot and very dusty with no protection fro the sun! It is undoubtedly cheap though.

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Q:  I'm planning my trip for Ghana for next year and I'm want to bring some food items such as can foods. Is it ok, and if so is there... 

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A: Why do you want to carry can goods? You can go to a number of grocery stores in Accra. Although I have carried some specialty items, the Accra airport does not usually... 

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