Ghana Archives - Svenywhere - Your hidden travel gems https://svenywhere.com/category/africa/ghana-en/ Authentic travel discoveries, travel blog, budget travel, backpacking, living around the world all written by Sven Koster. Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:21:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Stuck on a boat for 4 days https://svenywhere.com/stuck-boat-4-days/ https://svenywhere.com/stuck-boat-4-days/#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:11:56 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1704 What would it be to travel on a boat in Ghana on the largest man-made lake in the world? That was my question when someone during my travels told me that there is a boat going from the North part in Lake Volta to the South. I did my research on this idea and discovered […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/stuck-boat-4-days/feed/ 0 Luck during travelling: Floods in Accra https://svenywhere.com/luck-during-travelling-floods-in-accra/ https://svenywhere.com/luck-during-travelling-floods-in-accra/#respond Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:20:44 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1469 It June the 2nd 2015. Today I will go to from Nkoranza to Accra. This journey will take me a whole day squeezed into a trotro. Basically I need to sit in a small van with 15 other people. At Kumasi I need to switch from trotro. Here a priest entered the trotro. It is […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/luck-during-travelling-floods-in-accra/feed/ 0 7 Awesome Wildlife Pictures https://svenywhere.com/7-awesome-wildlife-pictures/ https://svenywhere.com/7-awesome-wildlife-pictures/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:00:40 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1348 I thought I will make a different post this time. Lately I have been playing around with photo editing. Something I never did before. So this time I will show you some of my results of my wildlife pictures shot during my trips in Africa. Vervet Monkey The Vervet Monkey, shot in Tarangiri National Park, […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/7-awesome-wildlife-pictures/feed/ 0 People of Ghana https://svenywhere.com/people-of-ghana/ https://svenywhere.com/people-of-ghana/#respond Thu, 11 May 2017 10:00:07 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=1205 My last and first article of this series was of the people of Taiwan. This was based of my experience during my half year exchange semester. Now I will share my experience about the people in Ghana. This will be based on the 4 months I run my own project there. Cultural Dimensions Before I […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/people-of-ghana/feed/ 0 Wedding in Ghana https://svenywhere.com/wedding-in-ghana/ https://svenywhere.com/wedding-in-ghana/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:00:38 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=658 With just being in Ghana for not only 2 weeks, I already had a big event coming up. I was invited for a wedding. Not just a random wedding but the wedding of Ameyaw, the person I was working with. So the first practical issue, what is normal on a wedding in Ghana. Will you […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/wedding-in-ghana/feed/ 0 Running my own project in Ghana https://svenywhere.com/running-project-ghana/ https://svenywhere.com/running-project-ghana/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:00:41 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=632 In Ghana I did basically two projects. One was a research about how NGOs can work together with corporations, and the other one was about an amazing guy, Ameyaw, in Nkoranza who is making tricycles for other disabled people. The problem with Ameyaw was that his business wasn’t sustainable so my task was to figure […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/running-project-ghana/feed/ 0 “Weirdest” food I have eaten so far https://svenywhere.com/weirdest-food/ https://svenywhere.com/weirdest-food/#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:23:32 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=583 As a Dutch person I have been raised in a way that you always should eat the food that people serve you. Besides that I am not that picky. So the result is that I have eaten some stuff that maybe some people would call weird. Here a list of the stuff I have eaten […]

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]]> https://svenywhere.com/weirdest-food/feed/ 0 Get funding for your project! https://svenywhere.com/get-funding-for-your-project/ https://svenywhere.com/get-funding-for-your-project/#respond Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:54:21 +0000 http://svenywhere.com/?p=374 For my project for my master thesis I went to Ghana. The goal was to make a disabled tricycle manufacturer in Nkoranza independent from funding, and make its business more sustainable. To make this possible I had to find funding for my project and I managed to arrange this funding while I was in Taiwan. Of […]

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