One virtue of being fairly nomadic is that we get good travel advice from other fairly nomadic roommates and friends. Nate's advice for Ghana:
"The most important place to go is my favorite bar in the world, Duncans, run by my favorite bar- owner and his lovely wife, Duncan and Barbara. Ask for the Captain, tell them Guy Jesus sent you and get him to take you to Greece. It's a wonderful little outdoor place with tables on the streets. If you go to Frankie's hotel in Osu and walk down oxford street (away from the circle), and take the first right up the hill its a couple blocks up on your right. Give them my best if you make it there.
Also fantastic is a place called La Tawala Beach Bar. To get there you take a cab to La Polyclinic (where Ring Road meets Labadi Beach Road) and walk down the dirt road toward the coast. Then you kind of go around a stand of trees toward the beach and its back behind there. They have tables on the beach and really great grilled chicken.
Also, for fried chicken in Osu, on the other side of the intersection that leads up to Duncans, there is a place called Papaye that is amazing.
On Thursday night, go to Bywel Bar in Osu. Great live music and a really fun scene
If you have two days to explore outside Accra, there are a few places I recommend. Just to the west of Accra is Kokrobite, a backpackery beach with a backpacker beach resort called Big Millys that's pretty fun, and probably a little less backpacker on the weekdays. If you want something a little nicer, a few hours away is Cape Coast, which has a historic slave castle, and one of my favorite beach resorts, Anomabo - Really lovely spot.
On the other hand, to the east is the Volta region, which ahs mountains and waterfalls and is also awesome. If you go there I recommend Wli Waterfall, Amedzofe, which has a cool though very rustic guesthouse on a mountainside, and Biakpa Mountain Paradise.
On the way to the Volta region (though possibly hard to stop at without a car, is the Volta river bridge, at Akosombo, and right by the bridge is a wonderful spot called Aylo's Bay Resort. If you somehow have a chance to stop here for lunch, its lovely. Right by the side of the river, with a dock and a nice ropeswing in the water. They used to have amazing shrimpburgers too."
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