Ask your Travel Agent about Ghana, its Tourist attraction and the time for enjoying them. Then ask friend who have already visited Ghana to help you plan. Before you leave your country of origin, get introductions family of business friends. Don't be shy of introducing yourself. There is always time in Ghana for a friendly chat and one introduction usually leads to others.
Get yourself well- armed with brochures,Guide books, shops and informative leaflets about the country. Discuss this with your Travel Agent. Make it a must to study the Ghana Cedi currency and its divisions as against your own currency.
You will require a passport and sometimes a Visa. Take extra photos and always carry your passport with you. Vaccination against small pox, yellow fever and cholera is necessary, so have it done well in advance.
When you Arrive For friendships sake respect local custom and don't look down on your hosts. Ghanaians are tolerant they desire to make friends and keep them so.
Don't argue much about our politics or be too paternalistic. Don't ask for unusual poses when you are siezed with the desire to take pictures; and don't be too quick to photograph harbours, soldiers, police or military barracks or installations. Let your judgement help go to take good candid shots- and go back home with your camera! Enjoy the unhurried tempo of Ghanaian life but do not walk alone in the dark in unlighted unfrequented places. Take ordinary sensible precautions.
Don't be lured into black- market currency: deals you will come off worse. Moreover, think soberly of the stiff sentence meted out to offenders if you are tempted to dabble in this or the drug market. And don't try to smuggle out gold ornaments, gems or art pieces; punishment for this is stiff, as it should be. The fact that john and Jane tried it last year and got away with it does not mean you too can get away with it this year.
LEARN A FEW LOCAL WORDS FOR FUN BEFORE YOU COME
Be sure that you have picked up a few English and French words and expressions. You will be surprise the way the Ghanaian will bend backwards to help you help him to understand you. Don't worry about your accent. Let yourself go and be free with eloquent gestures. Surely, there may be misunderstandings due to basic difficulties in expression, but in almost all cases, you are bound to get help from passersby or onlookers who will think nothing taking sides with you. The tourist to Ghana soon becomes aware that if he can at least greet local people in their own language, their pleasure will amply repay their small effort involved. So learn, a few words and expressions in some of the dialects which appeal to you.
