'''Public bus''' from Accra or Kumasi is cheap and safer than the maniac private bus drivers. It takes 11 hours from Accra, leaving around 8am so make sure you make a bathroom stop on the lunch stop as you might not be able to otherwise.
'''Private car''' from any medium sized town with driver is only about GH?30 a day.
Good point from which to visit '''Bongo (Moon Landscape)''' Tongo and Congo or if heading to Burkina Faso (neighbouring country).
'''Mole National Park''' can be a day trip from here. Elephants, Warthogs, several types of Monkey.
Top up on supplies if you are heading out into the smaller towns or countryside.
Chat to the locals, very friendly bunch and you will find the best travel info this way.
'''Market on Main Street''' Cobblers, textiles and lots of food. Worth going into for the look of it alone and you may be hassled to 'buy Yam!' especially if you are a woman.
'''Cultural Centre''' behind the main street in the grounds of a disused theatre. Oil paintings from GH?7.50!!, batiks, ornaments, cheap jewelry, goatskin handbags foot pillows, drums.....
Wander around a bit and you will find music shops selling tapes of the current Ghanian charts, worth bringing a few home to remind yourself of the sunny, almost Jamaican style music being played everywhere.
In '''Cultural Centre''' behind the theatre there is a great place with air conditioning and a Video Disc player playing Celine Dion songs endlessly.
'''Kosu''' - a local snack made from deep fried bean flour dough which can be bought just off the main street across from the taxi station. A few western style shops also on the main street.
'''Gidipass (now called Crest Restaurant)''' bar on the main street also serves good rice dishes and even spring rolls. If you want something more like home they have a dining room in a colonial style.
It is not recommended that you eat from food stalls on the road as food poisoning is a high risk.
'''Gidipass''' bar on Main Street, across and down a little from taxi rank where all the 'whites' and a few locals go. Hsve a few types of beer and sodas. Also serve good meals. Other small bars located around the main area (taxi rank and market)
'''Meet Me There''' Drinking spot is a few km north along the main road towards Bolgatanga (called Bolga Road). Set in a tall canopy of palm and date trees, drinks are at cost or below (meaning GH?0.25 for a mineral/pop bottle), where as at Gidipass or other tourist centres, they cost GH?0.60 or more. You can pick up some food from the street, and they'll bring you dishes to eat with and soap to wash with! Don't get too comfortable though. They'll kick you out at 10PM regardless of how much business you're giving them