http://www.odyssei.com Ghana, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:52:00 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:52:00 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24647.html Required travel documents for Ghana: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24647.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24280.html Electric power: 220V / 50 Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24280.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24021.html Area code to Ghana: +233 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24021.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9556.html A festival celebrated by the people of Kumawu in the Asante Kingdom to commemorate the bravery and patriotism of an ancestral chief of Kumawu Nana Tweneboah Kodua I who offered himself to be sacrificed for the attainment of Asante unity and also for Asant [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9556.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9555.html Mmoaniko (literally means let animals consume endlessly) is a festival celebrated by the people of Offinso, in Asante to commemorate the bravery and wisdom of Nana Wiafe Akenten I, who opted for land instead of jewelry, when some of the paramount chiefs o [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9555.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9039.html Labadi Pleasure Beach (Accra): A three kilometre sea frontage at Labadi, 8 kilometres east of Accra on the Accra Tema Beach Road. It serves as Accra's main public beach with only shower and changing room facilities and catering services. CoCo Beach (Acc [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9039.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9038.html I am told that there are a number of caves around whic could be explored. Most of them are in the National Park areas I am told. On 25/11/96, there was a news item shown on Ghana television about the caves at the Shai Wildlife reserve ( approx 45km from A [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9038.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9037.html Tropical and humid; Whole country: average low: 20,5C (69F), average high 26C (79F). Accra: average daily temperature is 30C (86F). The coolest time of year is between June and September when the main rainfall occurs. Variations in temperature both a [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9037.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9036.html Railways: total: 953 km (undergoing major rehabilitation) narrow gauge: 953 km 1.067-m gauge (32 km double track) (1997 est.) Highways: total: 39,409 km paved: 11,653 km (including 30 km of expressways) unpaved: 27,756 km (1997 est.) Waterways: [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9036.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9035.html Telephones - main lines in use: 200,000 (1998 est.) Telephones - mobile cellular: 90,000 (yearend 2001) Telephone system: poor to fair system; Internet accessible; many rural communities not yet connected; expansion of services is underway domestic [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/9035.html