Two Day Trips

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Thursday 12th August 2010

Ada Foah is the town at the estuary of the River Volta - after it has left Akasombo it meets the Altlantic Ocean at Ada Foah. Just beyond the town of Ada Foah is an idyllic fishing village with lots of colourful fishing boats and clean sand. I made a day trip to here, about 2hrs 15mins by trotro each way.

Friday 13th August 2010

The coast road going east from Accra passes through two towns called Teshie and Nungua. The weather was overcast but still quite warm and there was a nice breeze coming off the sea, so it was an ideal day for just wandering along looking at all the local shops. I took a trotro to Nungua and walked back through Nungua and Teshie as I'd heard that there were some interesting custom coffin makes there.

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Photos

Ada Foah
Fishing boats in the village of Azizenya

Ada Foah
Fishing boats in the village of Azizenya

Ada Foah
The River Volta meets the Atlantic ocean

Ada Foah
the fishing village of Azizenya

Ada Foah
Fishing boat in the village of Azizenya

Ada Foah
Fishing boat in the village of Azizenya

Nungua
I visited this guy and saw some photos of his work

Fish coffin
Teshie

Teshie
custom coffin makers at work

Chop bar sign
giving an idea of the types of food available at local 'chop bars'

Comments

[laura]

Thanks, I enjoyed reading this and seeing the photos, altho' I thought your blog ended rather abruptly....was looking for a final entry where you said farewell and shared your overall impressions of the trip. Gives me some ideas for my next visit. I lived in Ghana for four years as an expat youngster and visited briefly in the late 80's and early 90's.