michael pollak

ghana 2014 – tag 1

I am still debating if I want to write this travel log in german or english.
German keeps my friends at home in the loop, english should be more interesting to people just randomly dropping in and the local students. I suppose I just will do both and spare me the decision.

The first day was long but quite pleasent. After hanging out in the Lounge at VIE (just to be cool) the flight to FRA let me listen to the rest of the audiobook “Blink” – which is awesome.

After some running around in FRA we checked in to a quite long flight to Accra Airport (ACC) in Ghana. I wasn’t expecting it, but here at the equator the sun sets really quick and also quite early. At 18:30 we landed in the big but not tall city of Accra, in the complete dark and the intense noise and chaos of Africa. After quite a long time in the climatised jet the wall of heat and moisture also was a firm welcome. From Accra it is a two hour car ride to Keta, over some rather bad streets and through some crouded markets.

This place is intense, and I was culture-shocked for days after my arrival. It also is impressive and diverse, looking forward to learning a lot.

Deutsche Version || German Version