Kumasi Day 3

We alighted the bus from Accra & pretty quickly found the Presbyterian Guest House we were planning on staying at. We hadn't realized it was going to have a shared bathroom but despite this is was as clean as could be & pretty cool once the fan got going.
The town of Kumasi was quite devout as were most of the other towns we were going to be staying at we later found. Hymn singing emanated from various buildings & it was really rather pleasant. This peaceful ambience was in stark contrast to farther on into town where the madness began. The madness I mean of Kumasi Market. On Sunday the town pretty much shut down & most people would go to church or market which still covered the streets downtown. This was a surprise to us as it was such a huge frenetic market you wouldn't think they'ed want this coinciding with a day of rest. It wended it's way through a myriad of badly maintained streets lined with "shabby chic" decrepit colonial buildings. We finally got lost in this madness & even the police mis-directed us out. It was through sheer luck & Dave's compass that we finally stumbled upon the main road. 

on th'bathroom curtain

hospital in Kumasi

shop style

We decided to move on from Kumasi after 3 days even though we did love it there. We bought tickets for the bus early in the morning & showed up before it was supposed to leave at 8am. We were inexperienced at this point & had no idea that 10am could mean anything. After sitting on the bus benches for a couple of hrs an announcement was finally made that the bus wouldn't be coming in until 2pm. So off we trundled to Vic Baboo's for some breakfast.