Ghana🇬🇭After 2.5h traveling to Adanwomase finding out the only guide left in the village didn’t work today

What was supposed to be a simple morning expedition turned into one of the bigger challenges of this trip.

To start with, let me give a quick summary of how we managed to arrive in Adanwomase:

1. Started with a hike to a specific petrol station.
2. Got sidetracked by loud music from a nearby church and decided to check it out. It turned out to be full-on karaoke with Hallelujahs blasted at a volume no earplugs could handle—at 8 AM.
3. Hopped on a trotro (minivan) to a trotro station.
4. Spent time asking everyone which trotro could take us to Adanwomase, only to get blank stares.
5. Finally got on a trotro heading vaguely in the right direction.
6. Took the scenic route through every suburb instead of the main road.
7. Switched trotros.
8. After 2 mins driving, waited till we had enough passengers. Luckily our driver was quite agressive in getting new passengers so we didn’t need to wait too long 😋. He for example grabbed the big basket from a woman’s head and put it in the back of his totro forcing her to ride with him instead of a competitor.
9. Ended up in a village further than the junction we actually needed, thanks to Google Maps having the village locations wrong.
10. Took a trotro back to the junction.
11. Finally caught a shared taxi to… yes! Adanwomase.

We high-fived each other for making it and started looking for the Kente-weaving center. After some asking around in the village, that was mostly focussed in celebrating the outcome of the election, we bumped into a man heading to work. And guess what? He worked in Kente-weaving! Jackpot. Except, not really. He explained that the villagers of Adanwomase had moved the weaving factory to a neighboring village, Bamang, because other locals were jealous of all the tourist money flowing in.

So, we followed him to Bamang on foot. There, we finally got our interesting tour of the Kente-weaving process—although the journey to get there was the most entertaining part after all.

At the end of the tour, he arranged for a car to take us to the next village, Bonwire, which was also busy celebrating the election results in full force.

Next stop after this “easy” morning adventure: the Akwasidae Festival, where all the chiefs of the surrounding villages gather to honor their king.

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