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Travel tips for Ghana/West Africa?
I've been slowly convincing myself that I want to go to Africa, mostly because I haven't done a solo trip in a while, but also because I haven't been to Africa at all yet! Some of my team members are in Ghana and they sent me pictures of it, and it looked amazing. I definitely would love to go! I'm thinking of going during the week of Christmas only because it's probably my only time I'm available for the rest of the year. Any tips or places that I should be looking at?
(I also have some Scandinavian countries, Prague, or Scotland/Ireland on my docket, but I've been to Europe so much these last couple of years and I figure I'd need something new)
If you’re coming from the US, and your team there can arrange an on-arrival Visa, it’s much simpler than the process to get one before departure, which involves mailing your physical passport to the embassy in DC so they can put the Visa in and mail it back.
I don’t know how that would be done, but a recent group from the university I work for was able to swing that and had no issues (unlike a group the year before that wound up going a week late after their passports weren’t mailed back in time).