Africa Chat - Meet people when traveling in Africa on Nomad List

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ironically the landline data here is still trash

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Yeah but that's (sub-saharan) Africa. Everyone uses GSM/LTE for internet there. There just isn't the infeaateucture density or financial incentive to deploy massive coax or fiber networks.

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Are you in Accra working online or on-site ysvmsrkmivrsax I'm curious what the internet is like over that way

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I was eyeing Dakar for a bit, but never ended up over there. Would love to explore the west coast of africa soon

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online fdupbiry

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the 4G is 15mbps and reliable so far

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ghana is great, been before and would highly recommend

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That's pretty good, thanks! I was going to head to N Africa for a bit, then down to Cape Town, but maybe I add some time in over there

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Have you been to other countries in the area? I'd love more insight into the cell networks there

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not in west africa, no

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lots of unstable stuff around ghana rn so haven't thought about venturing further afield. know nothing about senegal but burkina faso/mali/togo/benin and to a lesser extent lagos/abidjan seem like not so good places to be rn, tho happy to be corrected if someone here is there recently

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one thing I've noticed that's changed since I was here a decade ago is all the fancy tourist hotels have really upped security after the hotel attacks in the last few years

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Ok, you're convincing me I need to study up quite a bit before heading over. East Africa was so stable, it was such an easy time getting around

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the situation is very fluid, i only deeply researched ghana of course.

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I have 4 days unplanned after my safari in south africa but cannot decide where to go from JNB. I have been in Cape town before so would like to do something different. friend recommended swakopmund but it seems to be tad cold that time of the year. Vic falls would be one option but 3 nights might be too long(?) Any tips?

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go to jeffrey's bay and drive the garden route.

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Garden route is great. If you want something a bit quieter, you can fly to vilankulos in Mozambique.

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3 days is probably about right for vic falls, but it's relatively expensive and touristy

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I wouldn't recommend anything with Namibia in 3 days. Much better to take some time to do it well and be able to see more if the west coast there.

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if you do the garden route, try to get a cabin at Tsitsikamma National Park

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not doing that was one of my big regrets from that trip