Ghana Guide

Why do readers like this Ghana travel guide?

One thing readers like is that it is up-to-date on prices, names and numbers which is important when you’re traveling so you don’t find yourself out of pocket and stranded—things change fast in Ghana.

It’s written by a Ghanaian and a foreigner who live and travel extensively in Ghana. You get 4 years of Ghana travel distilled into 160 pages of the most useful tips, clearest insights, directions and recommendations.

You also get the perspective of a Ghanaian, to give more insight than the average travel guide, and a foreigner who understands what new visitors need to know and how that information needs to be presented.

This Ghana travel guide very clearly explains how to get from A-to-B and further, so you can plan your journeys with ease.

We include what we believe to be the best attractions and accommodation, based on feedback of over 150 travelers that we worked with over the years, so that you don’t waste valuable travel time or money.

The Ghana guide gives extensive insight into what Ghana and Ghanaians are really like and it is one of the qualities that customers like most.

Testimonial: Hi Godwin and Gayle,

We had a very good time with your guide. It helped a lot with timely information while I was in Ghana with Ghanian friends in Feb. and Mar. 2010. They also found it useful. Thanks again, Don Majors USA Fri, May 28, 2010 10:28 AM

The first half focuses on preparation. There is a strong focus on culture (over 20 pages), costs (4 pages of itemized costs for your budget), health (extensive lists of diseases and clinics with contact numbers that cannot be obtained in the public domain), dangers and safety (which areas to avoid and what to do, and explanations of the major dangers in Ghana), sex and dating (yes, this is an issue for some travelers and we felt it more helpful to include these pages than to leave them out).

We also have extensive and up to date visa information with contact details so you can work out which visa is right for you and how to get it.

The MP3 files include language lessons in Twi and Hausa for those interested in learning some basic phrases. This is particularly useful for longer term visitors.

We also include 2 MP3s on how to haggle in the market or the street, with Godwin and Gayle acting the parts! Want a laugh? This is the place. (We won’t give up our day jobs.)

In Journeys, the second half of the guide—the part that most resembles a traditional guide book—we outline travel to all the regions of Ghana.

We break it down into five main areas, which we wrote along Ghana’s odd lines, since Lake Volta in the centre of Ghana makes a simple circuit rather challenging, depending on your time and travel style. This framework works logically with Ghana’s geography, while also showing you how each area connects so you can easily travel across all of Ghana.

We provide introductions, highlights, accommodation listings, hotels, site information, recommendations, and detailed “how to get to and from” the locations throughout the travel guide using local landmarks, as is the custom in Ghana.

We give insider recommendations that are not known to the general community too.

We also provide maps showing 15 potential travel journeys around Ghana and how one location connects with the next so you can more easily work out your travel route.

We also provide a stand alone map with all the potential routes, traceable with pen or pencil, so you can print it and trace your journey over the connecting lines. We call this “join the dots” and it works. Basically, choose your own adventure around Ghana. This helps you understand what journeys are actually possible.

We provide detailed explanations of how Ghana’s confusing public transport system works. It has its own set of rules and logic and is frightening and bizarre to new visitors, or even those who’ve never taken public transport. We make it simple to understand, another point that readers have noted.

Most importantly, we provide transport timetables and transport costs for all major cities in Ghana. You may not know this, but no single transport company or guide provides any transport timetables in Ghana, so you are really traveling blind when it comes to planning when to catch a bus and how much it costs.

We realized this was a huge failure on the tourism sector in Ghana’s part and that it was not fair to visitors. From our own experience we know that days can be wasted traveling to and from coach stations trying to buy tickets in the hot sun or heavy rain, only to be turned away sometimes and told to come back. Sometimes visitors get stranded waiting and have to sleep overnight outside (with mosquitoes) waiting for the right coach to arrive or foot the bill at expensive hotels because there was no service at all—but there’s no way to know this without timetables. We wanted to change this.

So you get eight pages of transport timetables that we painstakingly created from scratch, on foot, with at least 5 options in Accra, and 2 in each other city, sometimes more. We’ll keep adding to this as time goes by.

Testimonial: “Preparing for my first visit to Ghana, I found the Insider’s Guide very useful and I kept it with me during my visit. It helped me to have a wonderful time and since I came back I have recommended it to several friends. i hope to be returning to Ghana in November and will certainly be taking it with me.”

Peter Halliday from the UK. Sat, May 29, 2010 7:57 AM

Who is this Ghana travel guide for?

The guide is most suited to first-time visitors, second- or third-time visitors who may have spent limited time in Ghana previously, visitors whose last trip to Ghana was more than two years ago, anyone who lives principally in one area, e.g. Accra or Cape Coast or Kumasi, and who will travel to other parts of Ghana but may be unfamiliar with those areas.