Canadian High Commission

First day in Ghana (gordon)

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April 28th 2011
As of today we have been three days in Ghana. We landed in Accra on Monday night and then took a minibus and a taxi, all seven of us plus baggage, to the Crismon Hotel, which we discovered an hour later is located some 20 km east of Accra in the outlying town of Tema. Had a beer at the poolside bar and commiserated on the exhaustion of having travelled for about 28 hours (but who's counting) ... read more

Africa » Ghana

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Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more