Im going to Accra, Ghana. What is there to do? any good clubs? thanks in advance.?

Answer 1

These are the best in Accra:
Amigos nightclub-Around Achimota
Amazon nightclub-Tetteh Quarshie Interchange
Yegoala Nightclub
Boomerang nightclub
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/tourism/clubs.php
you can also visit
Labadi beach
Coco Beach
Kokrobite Beach
you can also visit the cape coast castle and a lot of other tourist sites outside Accra but as a foreigner read this advice before you go
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/tourism/advice.php
there's soon going to be an extravagant 50th Independence Anniversary in Ghana so i hope you will have a good time.
Have a safe journey

Answer 2

Accra is VERY different from American or European cities. There are a few clubs as mentioned in the previous answer but they're not like clubs as you or I know them. There's actually very little in the way of activities such as ball parks, skating rinks, bowling alleys etc although there are huge numbers of bars, many of which serve food.

Ghanaian culture is very different to western culture and most socialising is sitting around with friends and having a drink. They're very laid back people and if you want to dance then just get up and dance. As it's very hot throughout the year almost all bars are outdoors, some of the bigger ones have covered seating and some even have indoor seating.

One excellent place to go to is Bojo Beach - it's about 20 miles from Accra, you can get a taxi there or take a couple of trotros (mini buses that stop on demand). The hotel is very nice and a boat takes you across to a promontory where there's a popular bar and lively music. You just dance on the beach in your swim wear and when it gets too hot you can dive into the ocean.

Only the major hotels such as the Dutch Hotel (outskirts of Accra on the ocean) are westernized and by Ghanaian standards are monumentally expensive (about 50 times the cost of staying in a guest house).

The 50th anniversary of independence will be celebrated on 6th March and if you're there at that time there will be parties everywhere. I guess the main one will be in Independence Square in Accra. Ghanaians love to party and I was there during the world cup, party fever swept the whole country.

Two places I very much recommend visiting are Elmina and Cape Coast Castles, they're about an hours drive from Accra. It was from here that huge numbers of Africans were transported as slaves. Above the exit door at Cape Coast castle is a sign saying 'The Door Of No Return' and it was through here that Africans were marhced onto waiting ships and carried away. The story of the slave trade is incredibly moving and to see the conditions in which they were forced to exist is something that will stay with you. Many women were raped to death and prior to deportation slaves were crammed into cells for a month where many of them died. There was no sanitation, stifling heat and humidity and people were forced to survive squashed amongst rotting corpses. To this day you can still smell the decay - it's that deeply engrained in the stones.

I spent several weeks in Accra and to be honest, if I'd set out to do the tourist things I'd have run out of places to go after about a week - there just aren't that many things. A couple of places worth visiting are the Aburi Botanical Gardens about 20 miles north of Accra and Bodi Falls and jungle, although this is a couple of hours drive away.

If possible visit Kumasi, Mole National Park, Sunyani and Tamale. They're all several hundred miles from Accra but well worth visiting. The STC (national bus service) goes to all these places and is very reasonably priced. Akosombo and Lake Volta are also worth a visit but there's no STC so you'd have to hire a taxi if you don;t have your own transport (vehicles can be hired in Accra but such places are few and far between).