Cape Coast, Ghana Travel Blogs

Fishing Village Of Cape Coast
Mar 23, 2005 (5 photos)

(Taken from Ghana - The Bradt Travel Guide) Cape Coast was probably founded in the early 15th century. By the time the British reached Cape Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, which was called Oguaa at the time, it was a fishing village of about 20 small houses ...

Update
Mar 9, 2003 (14 photos)

... update to let you know that we've finally added photos to our last three entries. We'll add the details of our time in Ghana within the next week or so but right now the palm fringed beaches and excellent surf is occupying all our time. It's just so hot ...

Cape Coast Castle - Cape Coast, Ghana
Mar 23, 2005 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Ghanaian festival? or marathon style mosh pit?
Sep 14, 2009 (4 photos)

I think I have just had one of the coolest Ghana experiences thus far. So about a 15 minute tro tro ride away from where I stay is this village (we would call it a town but it’s referred to as a village by most people here which in my opinion is ...

Le Golf de Guinee
Nov 16, 2008 (5 photos)

Seul, a 8h du matin, je m attaque au Ghana. Une 1ere voiture me prend en stop 10 minutes, ensuite 1h de mini bus, 20 minutes de taxi, 2h30 de bus plein plein Ouest, et enfin 30 minutes de taxi! Voici ma matinee, et ce soir je fais la meme chose dans le ...

Slavery, forts, beaches and mixing cocktails
May 15, 2009 (6 photos)

... much underneath 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 ...

Wochenendausflug nach Cape Coast
Nov 30, 2008

... Kolonialzeit, 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. ...

Finally on travelpod.com
Aug 2, 2007

... (Opportunities Industrialization Centers International) assignment -- to evaluate the potential for mushroom production at Jerusalem Farm in Edumfa, Ghana.  After touring some of the farm and trekking through a small part of Kakum National Park -- a ...

Day 5: Cape Coast Escape
Apr 8, 2006 (5 photos)

... Kakum National Park. Again, the trusty tro-tro does the 2.5-hour trip with maximum efficiency, minimum expense; just over £1 to Cape Coast.    The towns of Cape Coast and Elmina were once primary centres of the slave trade back in the 1700s, ...

Beaches and slavery
Jul 10, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Cape Coast, Ghana - The Original Gold Coast
Dec 22, 2005

... tro conductor, who told me he would take me to the National Park, but took me in the opposite direction for 30 minutes, to a big town, Cape Coast, then pointed me to a tro-tro going to the park, passing the way I came. So what should have been a 15-minute ...

bathrooms, castles and abrounis.
Sep 1, 2009 (11 photos)

... a 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 ...

Kakum National Park
May 12, 2007 (5 photos)

This was a morning excursion to Kakum National Park, where we risked the very dodgy canopy walk- basically a few ladders strung between trees with planks laid end to end to walk on. Our guide assured us there hadn't been any fatalities, but you can see ...

Cape Coast in a day
Oct 27, 2009 (16 photos)

There's not much to tell about the trip and i'm short on time. i'll try to get a couple pictures now and will finish this post tomorrow.

Day 6: Kakum NP
Apr 8, 2006 (5 photos)

For those interested, it's ok. Nice trees, interesting weaver bird nests, good line in orange-headed lizards and a treetop rope bridge circuit. Worth doing once but overpriced (not a big deal) and rushed (a bigger deal). I could easily have gazed for 20 ...

A bit of history at Cape Coast
Dec 16, 2004

... 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 British. ...

Kakum National Park; rope bridges, monkeys,red red
Sep 7, 2009 (5 photos)

So after we left the Hans Cottage Botel, we went to Kakum National Park which was also just outside of Cape Coast. This park, was a legitimate rain forest. And when we were there it was raining. Awesome. I know. (Unfortunately the negative nancy’s ...

Cape Coast
May 7, 2007 (18 photos)

... to Old McDonald, and water play always goes down a treat. I've been scavenging plastic bottles and improvised boats all over Cape Coast! The leg's looking much better, and hopefully it'll be cleared up by the time I'm home. Millicent (my host mother) ...

A Day in Cape Coast (A Week of Drum Lessons)
Aug 13, 2009 (9 photos)

... castle made me realise how huge an effect it had. This castle was built to hold a minimum of 1000 slaves at a time (Cape Coast Castle, of similar size, is located within eyesight of Elmina). For hundreds of years, these machines held slaves for the two ...

Encore des plages
Jan 24, 2009 (12 photos)

Apres les plages de cote d ivoire,voici les plages du ghana. Et premiere grande, ici il y a des touristes. Beaucoup trop a mon gout... je suis trop habitue a avoir la plage pour moi ainsi que l hotel. Donc je suis vite parti vers une autre plage pres de ...

male crocodiles only attack other male crocodiles
Sep 3, 2009 (3 photos)

So after we got done visiting the Cape Coast and Elmina slave castles we went to the hotel that we were going to stay in. It was about ten minutes or so outside of Cape Coast in what I considered to be a pretty legitimate rain forest, jungle sort of ...

July 7 Day 7 Trip to Cape Coast
Jul 7, 2009 (4 photos)

... from the castle to the awaiting ships for transportation to the New World. We decided to go for lunch near the castle at Cape Coast, The Castle Restaurant. We attempted to use a road that followed the coastline but after about five miles we had to turn ...

The Gold Coast
Apr 17, 2005 (6 photos)

... the next morning.... Sunday morning we hit the road @ 7am for a little sightseeing; headed west to the Kokum Rain Forest, Cape Coast & Elmina Castles. the road is bumpy, non-existent in some places, lined pineapple stands, random goats & pigs wander ...

Javljanje iz "zbiralisca suznjev"
Mar 16, 2006

... prijazni in nevsiljivi. Povsod je polno smeti, organiziranost na splosno je na zelo nizkem nivoju.... Sedaj bova par dni tukaj v Cape Coastu, kjer so Anglezi zbirali suznje, jih natovarjali na ladje in odpeljali cez Atlantik. Potem pa bova sla se bolj ...

Cape Coast
Nov 10, 2008 (21 photos)

... cab with the rest of the girls to the castle in Elmina which turned out to be even more impressive than the castle in Cape Coast. I haggled over some jewelry outside of the castle after our tour. Then we returned to our hotel and Agnus called up an artist ...

Cape Coast and Elmina
May 7, 2006 (26 photos)

... war sold by a chief to an African slave trader. I have possibly survived hundreds of kilometers of walking thru Ghana to the coast. I walked through the doorway of a strange building & endured days with crowding and little to eat or drink. ...

Cape Coast es Kakum Nemzeti Park
Sep 20, 2004

... . Viszont egy fesztivalba botlottunk, ahol epp valami halaszattal kapcsolatos unnep volt olyan szinten, hogy Ghana elnoke is ott volt es beszedet tartott (Cape Coast fele az uton hagyott le minket az elnoki konvoj, ugyhogy gondoltuk, hogy oda tartanak :-) ...

Ghanian adventures continue....
Nov 29, 2005 (25 photos)

... days we decided we'd better get a move on. First stop on the adventure was a modest yet memorable coastal town called Cape Coast, named after an old slave fort located just steps away from the town center. The monstrous white walls of this fortress ...

Orphanage Visit
Apr 21, 2007 (3 photos)

Today we went to visit an orphanage near Cape Coast.  The one we went to is sponsored by a religious organization in the US.  It was really interesting.  It's rare for Ghanaians to adopt children and apparently they don't do much ...

How did 6 weeks go so fast?
May 10, 2007 (3 photos)

... to make clothes - I ended up with 2 dresses, 1 sarong, and 2 skirts. One of the taxi drivers while I was in Cape Coast, had these interesting cuts on his face.  Lisa and I had seen similar scars before.  A lot of people, both ...