Saturday, 5 November 2011

Bolgatanga

It is not polite to take the pi$$ out of place names. Specially if you come from a country with names as Best, Enter and Helmond (hellmouth), but it has to be said we came across some funny ones. For example I was making some santa noises in Hohoe.

The loyal reader of previous blogs might spot a pattern, we took a detour from Tamale to Bolgatanga (Bolga). As mentioned earlier the maps in the Bradt are not always to the right scale. So we could have known, and maybe I you can guess what comes next. Indeed, it took longer than expected. But it was a lovely trip through mountainous areas and some flat plains. As we were in the border area we wondered if we could see Togo and maybe even Burkina.













We had a cup of tea with cake for Hazels birthday at the best spot with a great view.

A sign - so we had to take a picture!

corrogated road - how does that happen??






2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In Cameroon the petrolstations had special tools to make the wheel rims circular again after the close encounter with potholes.
This was in the year Lon was born.
Lons father.

Lon said...

Dad, that was for a Renault 4, now they make proper cars.
http://stuffexpataidworkerslike.com/2011/02/18/25-toyota-land-cruisers/

By the way we had our tired fixed earlier this year, they find the hole and just poke some chewing gum like stuff in the hole. But it works!