{"id":527,"date":"2012-07-24T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/?p=527"},"modified":"2014-06-18T02:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:28:29","slug":"bolgatanga-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Bolgatanga Baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we made our way toward Tamale from Sirigu the main stop of interest was Bolgatana, capital of Ghana’s Upper East Region.\u00c2\u00a0 Bolga is known for it very unique and attractive baskets, which are arguably the most attractive craft produced in Ghana, and useful to boot.\u00c2\u00a0 One can find these in Accra, but there is something satisfying\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 about going to the source.\u00c2\u00a0 We were also in the market for a few of these baskets for a design idea for our Ottawa house.<\/p>\n

One source is a craft market on the outskirts of Bolga, but there is also a place referred to as the basket market, which is less of a market than a dark, unenhanced room with baskets piled in it.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to both but it was the latter that had much more greater choice and higher quality for what we were looking for.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Laura went wild.<\/p>\n

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Basket Case?<\/p><\/div>\n

Bolgatanga also has to be counted as a maintenance stop.\u00c2\u00a0 While Laura was basket shopping I went to deal with the slow leak in the right rear tire, which was actually not so slow anymore and had gone completely flat while we were in Sirigu.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The affable roadside tire guy I chose was quite amused by the hardware he pulled from inside our tire: a 2″ inch nail AND a 3″ bolt!<\/p>\n

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We finally used that spare tire that graced the bonnet through 3 countries<\/p><\/div>\n

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As we made our way toward Tamale from Sirigu the main stop of interest was Bolgatana, capital of Ghana’s Upper East Region.\u00c2\u00a0 Bolga is known for it very unique and attractive baskets, which are arguably the most attractive craft produced in Ghana, and useful to boot.\u00c2\u00a0 One can find these in Accra, but there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,25,33,13,24,20,14,15,22,21,23],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-african-wander-taking-it-on-the-road","tag-4x4","tag-africa","tag-bolgatanga","tag-defender","tag-expedition","tag-ghana","tag-land-rover","tag-overland","tag-overlanding","tag-west-africa","tag-wheatcroft","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}