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What to bring?
General
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Backpack (better
than a suitcase while you are traveling)
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Small
rucksack for in busses
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Presents for your host families (Only small items! Preferably something
typical to your own country)
Clothes
and accessories
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Eiderdown
protective sheet / sheet sleeping-bag (bed sheets and
pillowcases are not provided in host families)
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Pair(s)
of trousers
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Shorts
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Swimming
suit
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Zip-off-legs
pair of trousers
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Shirts
(long and short sleeves)
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Socks
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Underwear
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Shoes
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Slippers
and sandals (are also cheaply available in Ghana)
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Towels
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Toilet
articles
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Toothbrush
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Toothpaste
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Deodorant
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Large
handkerchiefs / bandannas (also against the dust and the sun)
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Tampons
(sanitary towels are easier to buy)
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Sun
cream (with high protection-factor)
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UV-protective
lipstick or cream
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After-sun cream
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Body lotion especially
in the windy Harmattan winter)
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Mosquito
repelling cream / spray / lotion (containing at least 30% DEET)
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Cream
relieving insect bites
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ORS
(Oral Rehydration Salts = salt / fluid supplement)
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Multivitamins
(the food in Ghana often doesn't contain all necessary ingredients for a healthy
diet)
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Paracetamol
or another painkiller
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Wound
disinfectant spray / lotion
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Plasters
and first aid kit
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Sterile
set of needles etc. (pharmacy / Health service)
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Mosquito
net (treated with Permetrin)
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Anti-travel-illness
drugs
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Pair of
glasses and / or contact lenses and its containers (when you need them) (NOTE
that Tamale is very dusty so that lenses alone will not be enough for most
people)
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Spare
pair of glasses
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(Cleaning/storing)
fluids for contact lenses (are NOT available in Ghana and it is spoiled faster
because of the heat)
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Thermometer
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Mirror
and comb / brush
Relaxation
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Bradt
Guide www.bradt-travelguides.com
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Pen, paper
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Diary
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Dictionary
(English to your mother tongue and vice versa)
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Reading
books
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(Card-)
games
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Important
documents
(take along copies with you, too) en money matters
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Cash (approx.
€ 50, $50 or £ 35)
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Traveller
cheques (how much? see costs)
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Moneybelt
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Travel
documents (also copies)
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Visa
(also copies)
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Passport
(also copies)
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Insurance
documents (also copies)
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(International)
driver's licence (also copies)
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ISTC /
ISIC Youth card (necessary for SATA tickets)
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Vaccination
documents + blood-group data
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List of
(e-mail/home) addresses of family and friends
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Address
of your country's embassy in
Diverse
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Flashlight
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Pocket-knife
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Photo-camera
en -films (light sensitive film over 100 ASA or APS films are hard to find)
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Binoculars
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Rope (for
attaching your mosquito net)
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Candy
typical to your country
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Sunglasses
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Wristwatch
and / or alarm-clock
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Cap
(against the sun)
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Balloons
& pens & small toys for children
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Small
gift(s) for your host family
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Pictures
from home (for example from your family)
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Extra
remarks
· For
more ideas, take a look on: www.meenemen.nl
· Use
another e-mail address than hotmail, because hotmail is too slow in
Ghana!
· Do not forget to renew your visa every 2
months. This can be done in Tamale and our colleagues will help you with it.
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Be careful:
Very
fragile, precious (travel documents) and temperature-sensitive items (for
example contact-lens fluids) are better stored in your in hand luggage! Because
of the safety of yourself and other passengers in the plane: put sharp objects
in your suitcase!
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