This weekend I went back along the west coast in the direction of Cape Coast which is a reasonably sized city about 2 hours from Accra.
Luckily we had someone who was driving us, so we were able to go straight to the places we wanted without having to change around tro-tros too often.
Started off with Kakum national park which is where they have probably the most touristy thing in this country, a canopy bridge walkway through the forest. After finally finding it, for a country with no offical signage and much random, it wasn't the easiest to find, but we got there.
There is a very biased pricing system at the park, with Ghanaians getting in for only 1 cedi and us non-Ghanaians having to pay 5 cedis with a student card, which luckily I had! But its definitely a large difference between the prices!! We did however manage to get in the Nigerian and Togo as Ghanaians but it was a bit harder to pass off me and the Brazilian as being black!!
The canopy walk was fun though, and probably worth the money I paid, but it would be better if they made the prices a lot more similar.....
Next we moved on to Elmina, which is a fishing village which is home to the biggest fort in Ghana, and apparently where the most slaves were moved through in the whole world.....as according to our guide. The slave trade in Ghana did last for a long time though so it is possible.
The fort is quite impressive, but of course with places like that which were used for very questionable colonial activities its quite sad. But is does bring a lot of people to the village now.
The next day we also had to go to the beach of course! Along the coast a little from Elmina was a beach resort we could walk to, to get to the beach, which was a little rocky but nice to be able to cool down in some water, it was quite rough though.
The resort also made an attempt at a golf course, and within the golf course is a wooden fenced in area with a 'lake' which contains crocodiles, which after staring at the non-moving water for about 15mins we did finally see the head of a crocodile!
So another nice weekend, next week I have a work thing over the weekend so will be busy, going to be away at a place called Akosombo which is where the dam is for the Volta lake, but probably will be too busy to actually see it......so will have to wait for another time.
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/KakumAndElmina#
Oh and Mum, in the Elmina castle they had some really really nice paintings, which I would really like one of, but unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take pictures of them so I can't show you, so you're just going to have to come and see for yourself!!
2 comments:
That Fort, and the Walkway are probably the two things that I want to do ... if I get to Ghana. Don't sound as if the beach is that great, and I g=could give the crocodiles a miss !
You should come to Ghana!!! Yeah the beach around this area wasn't the nicest, quite rocky, but its good in other places, and there's lot to do around Cape Coast without the beach.
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