Ghana Rotary Project - Accra Pictures

Well at long last I have some time to post the pictures I took last weekend in Accra

Welcome to the Manjaro Suites Hotel

Manager Linda (super lovely helpful person!)

WON'T let me take her picture (boo hoo)

But I give a thumbs up to the comfort of the room and a good value for the price

The area of town where the hotel is located is an odd combination (to my Western mind) of development and non-development. There are other more Westernized parts of town but they are way more expensive

Driving down to the hotel

Going up to my room

de-I Ghana Rotary Volunteer Project HQ

A little tour around my 'hood'

Walking down to the main drag Ring Road Central

Walking up the other direction 

Now we drive a little ways from the hotel to Nkrumah Circle which is a major transportation hub

Bizillion buses going all over Ghana and West Africa

 

Now we are heading into town toward the massive Makola Market

And into the market itself

Need a haircut?

My driver Frimpong who is looking for shoes

Guy trying to sell him shoes

(Frimpong was not happy with the quality so no purchase was made)

Lots of cloth

Ghana is proud of the quality of its cotton

And more of the market

There are not many monuments in Accra

One of the main ones is the Nkrumah Memorial

Statue of the man who led to independence

According to Frimpong it is pretty much 'de rigeur' to take pictures of you posing like the great man

Black Star Square

Jubilee House 

The Presidential Headquarters

Our snack

A sort of frozen yogurt mango flavored thing (not too sweet or dairy like actually) and a fried dough like a doughnut thing that I don't remember the name of though what's not to like about fried dough?

We ended up touring some other non-upscale parts of town just for me to get a feel for more real Accra

Not sure why the Israeli flag on this one

de-I goes native and does fu-fu(a combination of cassava flour and green plantain flour) with palm nut soup...with goat

According to the guy I was with I should not have let my hand get this messy

You are supposed to be licking them off all the time