Travel Guides

Footways are used for trading and the castles have stairs. An honest account of traveling in Ghana with limited mobility, without pretending.

Tro-tros, shared taxis, intercity coaches and hired drivers. How people actually move around Ghana, and what suits a first visit.

The cedi cannot be bought before you fly, so the first hour in Ghana is a cash decision. How notes, cards and mobile money really work.

What to put in the bag for a humid coast, a dusty harmattan and heritage sites where covered shoulders are the ordinary courtesy.

Ghana sits at Level 2 on the US advisory scale. What that means day to day, the one area both governments name, and the health basics.

Ghana asks for a visa arranged before you fly, a passport with six months left on it and a yellow fever certificate at the border.

Safari is more accessible in Kenya than the cities are. An honest account of traveling here with limited mobility, without pretending.

Matatus, boda bodas, the Madaraka Express and light aircraft. How Kenya actually moves, and which of it suits a first visit.

Kenya runs on mobile money to a degree that surprises visitors. What that means for a traveler carrying a foreign card and some cash.

Kenya is hot at the coast, cold at altitude and dusty in a vehicle, often in one day. What to put in the bag, and the luggage limit that decides it.

Kenya is Level 2 overall and parts of it are advised against entirely. Which parts, why, and the one exemption that matters to visitors.

Kenya no longer issues most tourist visas. You apply online for an Electronic Travel Authorisation instead, and it is not the same thing.