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The ruins are on top of a hill near the town of Kormantse.
This place isn’t a tourist hotspot, but you’ll always find a guide inside the building, who will tell you about the history of the fort.
He’ll expect a small fee(5000cedi) for his services. Leave a Comment Directions: Along the road Accra-Cape Coast
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Bia Conservation Area
Kakum Conservation Area
Bui National Park
Digya National Park
Kyabobo National Park
Mole National Park
Gbele Resource Reserve
Kalakpa Resource Reserve
Shai Resource Reserve
Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve
Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary
Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary
Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary
Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary Leave a Comment Phone: 664654/662360Directions: You have to contact the Ghana Wildlife Division if you need some accurate information.Website: www.wildlife-ghana.org / www.fcghana.com Other Contact: Fax: (233)-21-666476
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 Cape Coast by Wafro
Were millions of slaves were shipped through to the Caribbean and the United States. Leave a Comment
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 Accra, Independence Arch by sachara
The square itself is a big parade ground at the seaside with place for 30.000 people. There is also a huge stadium. All is built by Nkrumah in the sixties.
When I visited Accra in December 2003, I was surprised by the traffic at this square, so much more than the first times I visited Accra. At the parade and stadion grounds was a large meeting of the Presbyterian Church. Most women were wearing dresses, showing the purpose of the day. Leave a Comment Directions: Downtown between 28th February Road and Labadi Road, just near the coast.
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The ancestral shrine house at Besease was built around 1850 and is one of ten remaining examples of traditional Ashanti architecture. Most were destroyed by the British. The shrine is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
A typical Ashanti shrine is made up of four buildings surrounding a central courtyard. Three of the buildings have raised floors and are open to the courtyard, one is for the drummers, the opposite being for the accompanying singers and the third is utilized as a kitchen where meals were prepared for the gods.
The main shrine, the fourth building, will have closed walls or lattice work to allow ventilation. Only the priest and his attendants are allowed inside. (picture 2)
The bones and spinal column of animals sacrificed here to appease the spirits are kept as decoration on the wall, with many sanctified meanings. (picture 3)
Drums were traditionally used for communication in Ashanti culture, prior to the mobile phone! One of the four rooms in the traditional shrine was dedicated to the drummers, with excellent acoustics coming from the plain walls. (picture 4)
Outside the shrine is a tree – the Isop plant: the leaves are soaked in water, and the liquid used for purification prior to praying at the shrine. (picture 5) Leave a Comment
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 King Nana Okyere-Antwi I and
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Ankasa National Park and Old Ankasa are situated near the Ivorian border, these two places are worth a visit. The National Park is a 500 sq.km. tropical rainforest area and the village is located on the border of the National Park.
The people of Old Ankasa provide there needs with small scale farming, hunting, collecting forest products and even tourism.
You can reach Ankasa National Park by road Elubo-Takoradi, get of at Sunkwa where you can see the Ankasa sign along the road. From there on it is a 6km. walk, or you can try to catch a ride.When you choose to walk, you'll come across several little bush-settlements. Leave a Comment Directions: INFO ankasa
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The museum houses traditional artifacts and possessions from the Ashanti Royal family amongst other things. I found the following items of interest:
Stools and chairs captured by the British which were brought back by Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Ghana in 1965
Weights used to measure gold dust. Gold dust was used as a currency for some time in Ghana.
Replica of the king’s bathroom.
The king should not place his feet on the floor as this would annul his position, so a foot rest of ivory is placed in front of his seat.
Sculptures, palanquins, staff, stools and swords, including the replica golden stool (which the Ashanti fobbed the English off with as the real thing when they ransacked the palace) which was brought back in 1969 – with the gold covering removed!
Umbrella tops. The king would always have a servant carrying an umbrella over his head and the tops of these umbrellas are very symbolic: a duck means that you shuold look backwards; a horn signifies power and a hand illustrates how you cannot tie a knot without a thumb!
A replica of the king’s kitchen. Women were not allowed to cook for the king because jealousy may entice them to poison him, as well as the belief that menstruating women are dirty. The chief cook would always taste the king’s food first, to ensure it was not poisoned.
A leopard skin drum which when rubbed with a stick over the skin, sounds just like the roar of a leopard. This was used to scare off enemies, making them believe that there really was a dangerous animal around.
The king’s sandals, with the wooden ones used on rainy days and the gold for ceremonies.
Kente cloth, old clothes, spittoons and many other items. It is worth having a guide to explain it all to you. Leave a Comment
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The walkway was constructed in 1975 and is the only one of its kind in Africa. It is also reputed to have the longest ‘bridge’ in the world at 333m long. There are seven bridges and six platforms to walk across, and they vary in height from 11m to 40m above the ground.
Although the guide will tell you that there are 240 elephants’ in the forest, as well as 40 other mammal species, and over 300 different species of birds, in reality you are unlikely to see very much wildlife at all.
We went early in the morning, just after dawn at 06:30, which is reputed to offer the best animal viewing opportunities, but we hardly even saw a bird, let alone anything ‘interesting’ in the way of animals. We heard some rustling in the trees, which the guide claimed to be monkeys, and saw some tiny little birds in the tree tops, but that was all!
It is, however, a beautiful experience, especially in the early morning mist, and offers you an opportunity to see the rainforest canopy from a viewpoint otherwise not presented to ordinary travellers. We did not actually expect to see any mammals, having walked across a few of these walkways before, so we weren’t actually disappointed.
Do not attempt to do the walk if you suffer from vertigo! Leave a Comment
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