Traveling To Mpraeso-Kwahu In Easter Days

Mpraeso sits on a mountain plateau about three-four hours' drive from Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Technically African busses hold five passengers in each row. In reality they also hold an
unlimited assortment of children, tie up wings and legs of chicken or other birds or goat or sheep under the seats,
and luggage. It's usually a tight fit.
The busses operate on "African time" and will not depart until they are filled with people and goods.


For an European it may not be comfortable ride, because of the heat, the crowd, and the bumps,
you will find yourself included in the instantaneous community of the bus.

In the bus, Some sing, others eat, while occasionally someone will stand up in front, next to the driver
and try to sell herbal medicine (the practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants)
to passengers that cures every disease from how to give good sex, become fat, eat good and even cancer.

On your arrival in/at Nkawkaw city/town, next to Atibia and Mpraeso, you will hear 

taxi drivers and other mini-buses yelling (shout in a loud voice), 
"Atibia-Mpraeso! Mpraeso-Atibia! Mpraeso-Obo!, 
Mpraeso-Obomeng! Mpraeso-Bepong! Mpraeso-Nkwatia! 
Mpraeso-Asakraka-Tafo! etc Over here! Over here!"

Remember, African taxi drivers takes four passengers, three back and one front.
A bad taxi driver can take four back and two front. Making a total of six passengers.
Plus the taxi driver, that means seven people will be packed in that small box of car.
If you will not go, others are ready to take. So it will be better you join the heat in the car.


You can be the best driver in Europe or America but your driving experience
can not take you through the mountainous terrain of Mpraeso-Kwahu,the climb became steeper as you drive.
There is some part of the mountain, where one needs to sign a song before the climbing becomes clear.

Remember, your driven license ends at Mpraeso-Kwahu, you need simple uneducated boy on the roadside
to take you across the mountainous road of Mpraeso-Kwahu.

Never try it and you will die before your time. There is nothing about
spirit at this modern days but the hills and valleys are not normal for driving through
because some areas look like slope, flight of stairs, or rising or falling sharply, almost perpendicular.