Cape Coast Travel Guide

 atufft Says:  The Cape Coast Castle was originally controlled by the Portuguese, Swedes, Danes, and Dutch, before the British took over. With each occupation, the castle was enlarged both in terms of slave exporting capacity and military defense. Much of the recent building on the upper... 

 Wafro Says:  The Kakum National Park is a fairly old national park, having been established in 1932 and used for the last fifty years for thee extraction of timber. It is located in Central Region of Ghana, about 20 kilometres north of Cape Coast. It covers 360 square kilometres of... 

 georeiser Says:  Kakum National Park is a 350 square km national park in the Central Region of Ghana. The park was first established in 1960. The entire area is covered with tropical rainforest.The Park contains rare animals, like pygmy elephants, forest buffalo, civet cats, a wide array of... 

 georeiser Says:  The Canopy junglewalk in Kakum National Park passes over a 330 metres long series of hanging bridges made of ropes. They are connected together by the trees, and are all together the worlds longest and highest hanging bridge. At 40 meters height you walk over the tropical... 

 flynboxes Says:  While kind of a tourist dump the food is not bad here and the location next to the castle in front of the beach make this place hard to ignore. Get a seat at the tables that overlook the beach and enjoy the ocean breeze with a cold beer and a good meal. I had the curry... 

 Pieter11 Says:  At 50 metres east from the Cape Coast Lagoon, at the mainroad to Elmina, you'll see a small but very nice drinking spot called Auntie Ama's. This is a small and very colourful place where it is good to have a drink.Auntie Ama's is surrounded by colourfully painted fences and... 

 Pieter11 Says:  If you want to go to places in and around Cape Coast that are too far away to walk to, you can either charter a (relatively expensive) drop-taxi, or you can try your luck with a shared taxi. The system of shared taxi's is much cheaper, because the normal price of a trip is... 

 grets Says:  Fishing is the main occupation for most of the people living in Cape Coast, and many travel far out to sea. Tuesday is the day that fishing nets are being mended as this day is considered taboo for fishing. There seemed to be quite a few boats grounded on the Sunday we were... 

 grets Says:  Many of the houses along the coastline at Cape Coast become unsafe during the rainy seasons. People are slowly being rehabilitated into modern architectural buildings that are being especially constructed by the government to replace such dilapidated buildings as these. 

 Pieter11 Says:  When you are visiting the Cape Coast Castle, you can already have a look at the colourful harbour that lies right behind it. There, you can see the fishermen bring their fish in, organising their nets, and checking their colourfully painted "pinasses", wooden boats that are... 

 georeiser Says:   Cape Coast is the capital of the Central Region in Ghana, and has a population of 100.000 people. The city is located 165 km west of Accra, which takes about 3-4 hours to drive. Cape Coast is most known for beeing the place where a large number of the slaves were held...