Entry fees in Paga doubled to C4
Nakpanduri: government resthouse seems closed. Sillim guesthouse C15 for a double. Tel: 027 54 73 799. Neighbour prepares food on request.
Yendi: Yahaya Iddi guesthouse is closed.
Ntonso: great place to visit, you can stamp your own adinkra cloth. Great guides, worth a visit (day trip from Kumasi).
Ties Rijkers
I visited Paga in November 2010 on a day trip from Tamale. Price have certainly gone up; to get one of the big crocs up from the Chief’s Pool was 7 Cedis, a chicken was 4 Cedis and video/camera was 5 and 2 Cedis respectively. Also 7 Cedis to visit Paga Pia’s Palace from what I could understand (didn’t do that)
As described in the guide I got contacted by a man from Al Hassan’s compound just across the road. All Hassan has passed away and this guy, Achallah (spelling?) around 60 y.o., is in charge now. He showed me around in the small compound and I also met his pregnant 17 y.o. (!) wife. He’s a very good storyteller and we had a good time which included him driving me to the local market and later making sure that I got the right tro-tro back to Tamale.
Some of the huts in the compound had broken down because of heavy rain and were under renovation. From what I could understand it’ll be possible to stay there overnight.
Achallah was not happy with the new much higher prices and claimed that the number of visitors has gone down a lot because of that. I didn’t see other visitors there so he may be right.
Jesper Klith
I went to the crocodile ponds in Paga a few months back and visited the chiefs pond on the left as you drive towards the border it was well run and friendly and i spent half an hour and felt it was money worth spending. However when i went to the pond down the right hand turning along the road (i forget the name and have left your guide book in the hostle – sorry)i was charged a lot more, 18 cedi for two people 1 camera and 2 chickens, i got about 2 minutes and was hurried away very quickly. this annoyed me somewhat as not only bad service but very un-ghanaian and that is why i thought i should send this incase you have heard of similar incidents
PS the chiefs pool is building a new visitor buildng – not finished yet
Sam Godding
