Travel tips
Flights:
Many airlines offer round-trips to Accra/Ghana on various routes and with considerable variations in fares.You yourself can decide which flight to take and when to arrive at Accra within the given arrival days. We will then pick you up at the airport.
Versed travel agencies can make non-commital flight reservations for you (such a reservation does not constitute a booking and therefore costs nothing to cancel). As flights to Ghana reach their peak season in July, August and December, we recommend early reservation as soon as you plan to spend your holiday in Ghana.
We won't deny that travelling to your holiday destination Ghana by air has problematic ecological side-effects. On the other hand: it is very important for developing countries to establish tourism projects which are environmentally and socially compatible as far as possible. Maybe you could improve the "energy balance" of your air travel by booking a three or four weeks stay instead of a shorter trip?
Apart from that, you can join the "atmosfair"-programme (www.atmosfair.de; also in English). With this, you have options to voluntarily pay for the greenhouse gas emissions caused by your flight: You can donate the equivalent amount for the greenhouse gases caused by your flight. The funds are invested in e. g. solar, hydropower, biomass, or energy-efficiency projects and thereby contribute to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions by the same amount that would be comparable to the aircraft's emissions.
Visa application:
Tourists to Ghana need a visa for which you have to apply at the Ghanaian embassy in your home country. Together with your booking confirmation we will send you the required reference.
Health care:
An international vaccination certificate against yellow fever is required to enter Ghana.
Malaria prophylactics are indispensable; you should also check (and eventually renew) your polio and tetanus vaccination. - For maximum protection you may also consider vaccination against cholera, hepatitis A (and B), tropical meningitis and typhus.
It is certainly very important to make careful preparations for a journey to the tropics. However, travellers are often told that they must take a full "cocktail" of vaccinations which, according to our long years of experience, exaggerates the health risks of the "dark continent". With competent advice and some (moderate) precautions, one will in no way find Africa to be "the white man's grave". The malaria illness can be well controlled with the appropriate prophylactics.
We will send you precise and carefully compiled hints concerning health-care together with your booking confirmation.
With receipt of your payment we will send you further advice on "equipment" and your individual travel preparations.
For further information and booking, please contact
KASAPA Centre
c/o Silvio Holler
schulz aktiv reisen
Bautzner Str. 39, 01099 Dresden
Tel: 0351/266 25-22
Fax: 0351/266 256
Email: sholler@schulz-aktiv-reisen.de
