A Day Trip to Elmina
July 24th 2010 Saturday 24th July 2010
This was a purely tourist day - a trip to the village of Elmina, on the coast about 180 kilometres west of Accra. One of the main attractions in Elmina is the fort/castle - supposedly the oldest European building in Africa south of the Sahara.
The fort was originally built by the Portugese in the 15th century, was captured later by the Dutch, and was then bought from
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