Cape Coast Castle

After Kakum National Park we headed back to Cape Coast to visit Cape Coast Castle. This is a World Heritage Site and one of the biggest slaving forts of the colonial and slavery era. Inside the castle we had a guided tour which involved some history of the castle and it's role in slavery . We saw the tiny cramped conditions of the male and female …

... , Dutch etc. From about 1664 Cape Coast was Britian's headquarters and they began expanding the existing fort to become the Cape Coast Castle as it stands today. In the 1680's the slave dungeons were constructed in such a way that they were accessible ...

... tour and pay our admissions and go in. It cost 50,000 each and another 5,000 for the camera. Throughout the 18th century, Cape Coast's economy was dominated by its role at the heart of the trans-Atlantic slave trade - at any given time before 1807 when ...

... a coconut tree. After the relaxing of the last couple of days it was another short trip to the slave fort at Cape Coast. Like St Georges Castle there was a tour on offer but having heard all the information before I only stayed a short time before ...

... where they do most of their fishing so it stinks :/ so we went to Elmina castle, which was used for the same things as Cape Coast castle, so we heard most of the same things, like how the slaves were treated, hearing it for the second time didn't make it ...

... the colonial era. Many of the slaves were sold to the British in exchange for alcohol or guns. The Cape Coast Castle is a 'must see’ during a visit to Ghana. This Saturday we went on the tour. When you first arrive it seems like a cheery place with ...

... , mit dem Bus drei Stunden westlich von Accra. Die absolute Hauptattraktion ist ganz klar das so genannte "Cape Coast Castle", die zweitaelteste der ueber fuenfzig von den Europaeern errichteten Burgen bzw. Forts entlang der ghanaischen Kueste. ...

... of it...it was much more emotional reading it here than i think it would have been back in the US. I am in Cape Coast now. Cape Coast was the British administrative capital for the Gulf of Guinea for 100 years. There is a castle/fort here, a UNESCO ...

... real interesting place to visit. I had never thought that something like this exists in Africa. When Obama came to Ghana in July he visited the cape coast castle and there was a plaque there for him. Plus the guide that gave us our tour was the same ...

... the local language we get taught different ones.....it gets very confusing!   After Accra we headed to Cape Coast, made famous for its slave castle. The castle is a beautiful whitewashed castle that over looks the sea, with a dark past. Owned ...

... to handkerchiefs, soaps and breads were walking around on people's heads. After getting a hotel room, we heading to the historic Cape Coast Castle for a tour. The castle is an old fort that passed between the hands of the Danish, Swedish, and ...