I lived in Accra for a year and a half and in that time I relished the opportunities to escape city life to learn what else Ghana had to offer. Weekend trips in Ghana are the perfect way to leave work behind and explore the country in small bites. There were seven weekend trips I loved that were relatively easy to arrange from Accra. Here are my favorites, in no particular order. Wli Falls I loved this place so much I wrote an entire post about it. You can read more about it, and see more photos, here. This is […]

Wli Falls, pronouned “vlee,” is my top recommendation for weekend trips to take from Accra. This was the most beautiful place I visited in Ghana in the year and a half that I spent there. I learned that Ghana doesn’t have a well-developed tourist infrastructure, which is both good and bad. It’s good because it means the only time you’ll feel crowded is in the tro-tro (public bus) on your way anywhere. It’s bad because it means that there’s little incentive for the government or businesses to invest in maintaining trails and keeping them free of trash. It also means […]