14 Days of Illegal Gold mining in Ghana

Day 4 Tom Brown

Our first hotel experience in Wassa Akropong

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Bucket bath

The $30 room was spacious, the bed a queen. I felt like a king.

The solace was compounded by the fact that JD and I weren't allowed to sleep in the same room for fear we would engage in...well you get the idea. Ghana's a surprisingly conservative place, but maybe just wanted to charge us for separate rooms.

Either way, we were clearly not the t…

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