Steady...

Trekking Around the Coast

---

May 9th 2005
Rusty Ropes and Cracking Boards Last week I went to Kakum National Park, where really the only thing worth seeing amidst dense jungle was a 1000 foot long and 100 foot high canopy bridge spread across 6 tree trunks. It was built a few years ago with funding from USAID, and let me tell you, that thing creaks and shakes like there's no tomorrow; where the millions of dollars in funding w ... read more

Africa » Ghana

---

Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more