Coming to Accra. Akwabaa

Akwabaa (or welcome, in Twi language).

YES!! I finally made it to Ghana 🇬🇭 (being my first West Africa country ever!). After all of the hassle, tears, and of course money. As a not-so-adventurous person, traveling alone to West Africa would be soooo challenging especially when you don't want to splurge. Lucky, my best buddy is in Ghana. At least he can fill up the gap of a few information available on the world wide web.

Visa. Visa business is terrible. As you know, living in South Sudan has made me even harder to make Visa directly to the embassy. That's why my bucketlists are country which have Visa on Arrival or free Visa policy for Indonesian ordinary passport holders. Then I stumbled upon Ghana, which has a Visa on Arrival policy. YAY! This is the best time to leasr about slave trade. Apparently Ghana has misused the term of Visa on Arrival. The VoA here is the pre-arranged VoA. Meaning that I had a friend working on the visa to the immigration, sending all of my docs, and have it approved before I arrive to Ghana.

When I arrived (with my pre-approved and paid copy of visa) I have to fill up the departure card, then went to the VoA counter for them to double check (?) and print the visa sticker.... And this process took 30 minutes of my time!! Can you imagine? But after that we can pass the passport control because they already stamped it in the counter.

Oh and the pre arranged visa cost me 150 usd for a single entry! Can you imagine? And since I want to cross the border and come again, I have to make abother re-entry permit for... 75 usd (plus 25 usd bribe to make everything faster).

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