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Elmina
Elmina, Ghana
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From Kumasi To Elmina
This is a top pick! We're heading out of Kumasi now for Elmina. We've hired the Silicon Hotel bus and driver. It seems too early in the morning, but they're at the door wanting to take our luggage and load the bus. It is 6:30 AM and we've slept in. Kailey has said her good ...
Coconut Beach Resort
This is a top pick! ... the day. Since we're leaving tomorrow we don't bother. So - if you are trying to decide between the two hotels, take the Elmina Beach Resort! The same gentleman insists on getting us a better ride than what we arrived in. He calls for a private car and ...
Weaver bird watching
... is worst for the taxi-drivers of course, many of whom run their cars on LPG. ** Rather than waste anyone's gas, I walk into Elmina. In fact the mile-long walk up to the main road from the hotel is a wildlife bonanza. I take my small binoculars with me ...
First Day
Reading day by the blue pool. The best book on the history of Elmina seems to be one by a writer called Ato Ashun. I'm not sure it’s the best researched history (he writes "hundreds of millions of Africans were taken in the transatlantic slave ...
Attractions in Elmina
Elmina Attractions (3)
Elmina Castle
Elmina, Ghana
The European traders built and occupied many forts along the coast of Ghana in the 15th-17th centuries to protect their trading posts.
Saint George's Castle
Elmina, Ghana
This is the oldest and largest European structure in Africa, built in 1482.
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