Ghana

GHANA
We arrived in Newtown, wanting to get to Olivier and Danielles www.busuainn.com, so we bought our tickets for the tro-tro (minibus) and we were first to buy so that meant we had to wait another however long it takes to sell 11 tickets. We got so fed up with waiting and the guy could tell so he called a friend to pick us up and he got us a tro-tro to Half Assini then we got another tro-tro which was a disaster beacause we paid for 4 seats and he sold 1 of our tickets twice so there was a big yelling spree and by that time we were half way out of town so the driver drove us all the way back to the station after an hour of waiting the lady who sold us the tickets gave us back the money for one. We made it to Takoradi and caught a taxi to Busua on the way to Busua at 10pm Maddys door flew open and she nearly fell out.

After arriving at the hotel late that night starving so Danielle wipped us up a cheeseburger and fries. The next day was our day to relax without any business beacause the day after that we had to make it all the way up to Tamale but CG ended up going up to town (Takoradi) because she needed a SIM card and to change euros to cedi but Maddy and I stayed on the beach and had a lovely day bodyboarding and sun bathing.

The next day it was time to go north to Mole National Park for Christmas we got a taxi to Takoradi then a tro-tro to Kumasi 5 hours listning to political speeches then we got another tro-tro to Tamale by then it was 9 and we had to find a hotel to stay at we found one close to the station. So me and maddy went to look at the room it was foul we said no and soon found out it was a brothel then we found this nice chinese place with a tv WOW lol!!! In the morning we went shopping and bought some necklaces caught a bus to mole in the afternoon after a long wait. We met two lovely Danes on the bus, Aksel & Marie. A man decided to sit on me for 2 hours CG and I spat the dummuy at him and it hit him in the eye we arrived to a lovely room on christmas eve at Mole Motel but there was a warthog blocking our way to our door!

In the morning we went on a walk at six we didn't see any elephants though but we did see a croc and antelope, warthogs, baboons & monkeys. After the walk a lady saw an elephant (the hotel is on a hill so you get a good view of the main watering hole in the park) so one guide took us all down the elephant was big it was so cool I was 30 metres away from it.

In the morning we got a bus from Larabanga to Wa, there was a witch doctor that got on our bus, who was putting on a show for everyone telling us about his magic rope that stops pregnancy and his rock that helps scorpion - he had a little scorpion crawling around his head! He had everyone cracked up.

We got to Wa where we had lunch in the bus station then a tro-tro to Hamale the border of Burkina Faso. First a guy who seemed quite nice at the tro-tro stop in Hamale showed us to immigration and customs, but then after that he wouldn't leave us alone. He couldn't cross the border so then he got another annoying friend to walk with us 500m to the Burkina Faso immigration. He said that his brother would take us to Diebougou (60km) for 40,000CFA (61euros) but first of all he said he's the only taxi and that CG had to go to his house to negoiate the price. So CG and Maddy said no and asked the Mauritanian owners of the shop where were having a drink where the taxi station was; the Mauritanian told CG to go up the street and while CG was gone the other guy came back and started yelling at the Mauritanian saying why did you tell her to go, they could have got a ride with my brother. After that he drove past on a scooter and yelled 'I'm going to burn your shop down'.