(Note: I currently am in a cafe in Tamale, so I have some time to write about my travels)
Skipping class on Wednesday and going on a rumour that STC had a bus that goes to Wa, in the Upper West Region of Ghana, Meghan and I went to the station. Thank goodness there was one.
The trip was 13 hours and compared to the bus to Ouagadougou, was a breeze. Things of note: The drivers were hilarious people, I powered through Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" (a whopping 112 pages about catching a fish) and a lady threw up on the bus, with our backpacks in the blast zone. Suddenly, bringing a bar of laundry soap didn't seem so crazy after all!
First impressions of Wa at 10PM: it was hot, very quiet and the people were disarmingly friendly and helpful. The cab drivers pointed us in the right direction with no malice and a teenager named Isaac took us all the way to our hotel. We stayed at the luxurious Kunateh Lodge. The fan helped, the truck's blaring horn at 5:30AM did not.
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