Cape Coast Cannon

Sight Seeing the African Coast of Guinea

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September 17th 2010
Day 7 - Today we went to the coast to see the slave castles and walk in the tree tops in the rain forest. The trip was long and bumpy. They do not have very good roads in some parts of the country and the pot holes are the size of cars in some places. It took about 4 hours to get to the coast from Kumasi. We stopped at the Kakum National Park first. There we were able to walk in the tree top c ... read more

Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi

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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