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Recreational Tourism - Ghana

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La-Palm Royal Beach White Sands

Recreational Tourism-Ghana

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Beach Resort - Manet Paradise Ada Beach Resort Elimina Beach

Sightseeings in Northern part of Ghana

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Elephants @ Mole Park Mystery Stone - Larabanga Slave Wells - Salaga

Sightseeings in Greater Accra-Ghana

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Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum National Theatre - Accra Makola Market

Sightseeings in Western part of Ghana

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Fort Metal Cross - Dixcove Fort Orange Nzulezu Village

Kintampo Falls - Ghana

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Nini-suhien national Park - Ghana

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nini-suhien national park
The park is known to be rich in biological diversity. About 300 species have been recorded in a single hectare. Records indicate that, 43 mammal species live in this park. These include: the bongo, forest elephant, 10 primate species including the endangered Diana monkey and the West African Chimpanzee. Links to information on this park: UNEP-WCMC, Ghana Wildlife Department

Gyabobo Range National Park

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Gyabobo Range National Park
The park is located in the dry semi deciduous forest zone and covers an area of about 359.8 sq. km. It has both forest and savanna species of plants and animals. It contains the nationally endangered endemic tree, talboteilla gendtii Links to information on this park: UNEP-WCMC, Ghana Wildlife

Bui National Park

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Bui National Park
The park stretches over an area of 1821 sq. km. It is known to have a large population of hippopotami Links to information on this park: UNEP-WCMC, Ghana Wildlife Department, Ghana Wildlife Society

Kakum National Park - Ghana

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Kakum National Park
Kakum National Park covers an area of 360 sq. km of moist rain forest. It is the only park in Ghana with a canopy walkway which enables visitors observe the tree-top habitats of canopy-dwelling animals. including the flying squirrels and bush babies. Links to information on this park: UNEP-WCMC, Ghana Wildlife Department, Ghana Wildlife S

Bia National Park

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Bia National Park
The park was created in 1935 and named after the Bia river which drains the area. This area is made up of untouched rain forest and has some of the tallest trees in West Africa. Links to information on this park: Ghana Wildlife Department, UNEP-WCMC

Ankasa National Park

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Ankasa National Park:

This was established in 1976, it covers an area of 490 sq. km. The vegetation of this place is evergreen rain forest and contains some exceptional botanical species like psychosis ankasensis which was discovered recently. Mammals found her include: forest elephant, bongo antelope, duiker, leopard civet cat, chimpanzee and several monkeys and a large number of birds.
Links to information on this park: Ghana Wildlife Society.

Digya National Park - Ghana

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Digya National Park:
Digya was created in 1971 and covers an area of 3,478 sq. km. Mammals found here include; elephant, buffalo, water buck, hartebeest, bush pig, baboons and five other species of monkeys. Crocodiles and the clawless otter are also found here. Links to information on this park: Ghana Wildlife Department, Ghana Tourism Board, Ghana Wildlife Society, UNEP-WCMC

Mole National Park - Ghana

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Mole National Park:
Mole covers an area of 4,912 sq. km and is the largest, oldest and most developed park in Ghana. Links to information on this park: Ghana Wildlife Department, Ghana Tourism Board, Ghana Wildlife Society, UNEP-WCMC.

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Attractions in Volta Region - Ghana

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Lake Volta Estuary
The estuary is an area of great scenic beauty with river and ocean beaches, and picnic spots shaded by palm tree. The sand bars are the nesting grounds for sea birds, and endangered species of twitter are still found here.

The Keta-Angaw Lagoon Basin
Important wetland and breeding ground for migratory birds

Tafi Monkey Village
The sacred monkey sanctuaries around Tafi Atome, some 5kn away from the Avatime hills.

The Waterfalls of the Volta Region
Although some may be seasonal, all are set in attractive wooded or mountain settings.

Wli falls – 20km from Hohoe, in the Wli nature reserve
Tagbo falls – Liate Wote
Tsatsodu falls – 10km from Hohoe
Aflambo falls –Leklebi
Amedzofe – Abadzeme falls

Kalakpe Game Production Reserve
At Abutia, 15km from ho, the reserve has increasing species of migratory and indigenous birds life, buck, buffalo and monkeys.

Kyabobo National Park
A newly designated National Park in the foothill of Mt. Djbobo, on the border with Togo.

Grottos and Caves
In the limestone hills, the grottos and caves are dramatic. Not to be missed are:

The ancestral caves of Likpe – 14km form Hohoe
The grottos of Kpando – Aghehoe and Aziavi
The caves of Nyagbo and Logba
Caves and iron mine workings – Alepafu

Historical Sites

Fort Prinzenstein, Keta
Cape St Paul Lighthouse, Woe
German Historical Site at Kpando, Ho, Amedzofe, Kpedze.


ANCESTRAL CAVES - LIKPE	MONA MONKEY - TAFI ATOME

MOUNTAIN GEMI - AMEDZOFE	TAGBO FALLS


WLI FALLS

Elmina - Ghana

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Elmina
Elmina a small village in Ghana, located about 15 minutes west of Cape Coast. I visited it the day after visiting Cape Coast and before visiting Hans cottage Botel and Kakum National Rainforest Park. There are three things to explore in Emlina:

This bridge crosses the river that flown through town. Just to the left of this photo you would find the Slave Castle.

Elmina - The village
Elmina is a quaint little town, not unlike cape coast. It’s just a little smaller and a little dirtier. Other than the castle and the fort, there is a vibrant fishing culture that can be seen along the shore. The boats are very traditional is style and size. They don't use modern fishing techniques, the go out when the tide goes up and use the lowering of the tide to beach their boats. It's quite an interesting site actually, very colourful.

Elmina is a fishing town, bustiling with all kinds of activity on the coast. 75% of the people have jobs that are in some way related to fish.

On the beach kids can be seen playing soccer all day long. Unfortunately, if you watch the beach long enough, you can also see a number of people sneaking off behind the castle to poop.
Outside the castle and the fort is a soccer team. They are a group of boys who needs shin guards, soccer balls, team jerseys and such to play for the regional Ghana soccer team. You can sign an official sheet showing your donation and seeing what other people have donated as well.
This of course, is all a play. It a way for kids to make a few bucks by preying off the sympathizing unwitting tourists you frequent the region.
Note; you can find the most beggars where there are the most tourists, not where there is the most need.
These kids apparently make quite a good living, and use a good chunk of their cash to buy cigarettes and stuff. Of course, they are very friendly when they talk to you. I say I'm from Canada, and they say "oh, Toronto, Ottawa?» All part of their act to make you think that they are your friends. I had to pass by them about 8 times throughout the day, and each pass by revealed something new about them. Usually they would keep on repeating "Timothy Timothy Timothy" and waving at me as I passed, which was exceedingly annoying. One time I saw some of them writing a perverse poem on one of the rocks in front of the castle. I chased them off. Another time one of them who was sitting on the nearby bridge at the time, and who knew that I spoke French, thought he saw me looking at some woman (I wasn't) and he said "Tu aime cette fille? Je peux lui donner a toi..." meaning "you like her? I can get her for you..." Another one of the guys who was particularly familiar with Toronto, and started naming off DJs in the town, asked me if I would like to drugs with them.
The bottom line for you tourists out there is "Don't ever give money to kids (these guys were teenagers, but I would classify their behaviour as kids). It does more to damage their dignity and proper ambition than it does to help."
Anyway, I was reading an exhibit in the castle about the economic plans for Elmina, and it was quite interesting. It said that 70% of the population depends on fish in some form or another for their livelihood, but that with 100 000 visitors to the castle a year, the tourist potential is huge. They listed all of the problems above as barriers, as well as the fact that all of the drinking spots are inside some dark room instead of out on a patio, and a shortfall of restaurants that aren't hotel restaurants. It dawned on my just how important tourism is as a market to the world economy. It is a way that wealth can be more evenly distributed across the globe in an economically mutually beneficial way. Supporting local hotels, tourist spots, artisans, transportation industry, and restaurants helps a community as a whole. Both the tourist village and the tourist benefit from this transfer of funds. Of course, there is also bad/abusive tourism, but I’ll leave that topic on the cutting room floor.
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Elmina - St.George slave castle
Located just 15 minutes away from the Cape Coast castle is the St.George castle of Elmina. While the Cape castle was controlled for most of its history by the British, St.George was first build by the Portuguese, and then attacked and taken over by the Dutch. Thus, there is both Portuguese and Dutch architecture. The Dutch and the English were bitter enemies and trading rivals. One of the main reasons for some of the fortifications on each castle was for protection from the other castle. These two foes lived within eyeshot of one another along the coast.

This is a picture taken of Elmina and the castle (at the top of the photo) from the lookout tower of Fort St.Jago.

As far as I understand, the Dutch had taken the castle and the nearby fort initially with the intention to stop the slave trade, and instead focus on Gold and other commodities. Financially however, this proved to be a financial disaster. The Dutch were faced with a decision;

Resume trading slaves to become profitable.
Abandon the castle, at which point another country (most likely the British) seize the castle and continue trading slaves.

Of course, they chose number one. It's easy for use to look back in hindsight and righteously say we would have picked number two, that we would take the moral high ground. Consider this though; the St.George castle had two churches, one of which was located directly over the female slave dungeons.
All of a sudden my confidence in my sense of righteousness felt delicately vulnerable.
Architecturally, the castle in Mina is much more impressive than the St.George castle in Cape Coast. There are sweeping archways everywhere, and empty moat, an interesting patrol route along the top rim of the castle, and many confusing passageways.

This slave dungeon held 300 women, 150 on each side of the pillars.

The treatment of the prisoners was pretty much the same as at Cape Coast castle. One new manner of torture that was pointed out was a ball and chain, unmovable on the ground. It was located in the courtyard between all of the female slave dungeons. If a woman misbehaved, she would be chained to this ball and left in the courtyard in the scorching sun. In the meantime, officers were free to rape her and mistreat her as they saw fit. Through the bars of the dungeons the other women would be able to observe what was going on, as an intimidation tactic to deter them from stirring up trouble.
Overlooking this courtyard between all of the female slave dungeons was a platform. The women would be summoned out of their dungeons into the courtyard, and the general of the castle would select from them a woman to enter his sleeping quarters for the night. This woman would be escorted up through a special "trapdoor" leading almost directly to the general's quarters.

Overlooking the courtyard, the general can see the slave dungeon that is picture in the photo above. He can watch a disobediant slave who is chained to the ball in the court get tortured and raped in the hot sun all day. When it suits him, he calls all of the women out of the dungeons into this courtyard and chooses one to lay with him for the night.
In the thumbnail to the right you can see the decorative symbols directly above the female slave dungeon. It is a church built by the Dutch.

From these relations (as well as impregnated children from rape, and the wives that soldiers took from in the town) came crosses between the white and black people. These children took the names of their European fathers, and for this reason there are today in Ghana many blacks (especially in coastal regions) with European names such as Ferguson, Smith, etc...
A number of emotions come to the surface after seeing these things. The first knee-jerk reaction is to realize what a horrible heritage the Americas and Europe has. One can easily feel very guilty. This feeling is somewhat easily shrugged off though at the realization that I am not my ancestors, I am somebody completely different and unique.
One realization that is somewhat harder to justify is that Most of the prosperity of the Americas and Europe was built upon the slave trade, a basis for which still exists in our society today. The Americas rose quickly to significance and power because we are rich in natural resources, and cheap slave labour was used to harvest that. We were into the state of being a prosperous nation well before the abolition of the slave trade. We had a "running head start" so to speak, a established stable economy, market structures and a diverse set of advanced skills because the labour was left to the slaves, all at the expense of West Africa. We use this still today, and our daily lives today depend on the evils that were done there. The evils can still be felt here in Africa, but we don't notice the results at home because, well, they are positive.
We don't really have much of a choice of our identity' in this matter, and to throw off everything we have for the sake of the moral highroad and a bloodstained heritage would be rather self-defeating. No, a better approach is to realize that in our high place, we are also burdened with more responsibility. It is our role to accept that responsibility.
I watched the Nuremburg trials two weeks back, and what struck me was that a nearly an entire nation was deceived to ravage Europe and torture the Jews, things that they actually though were good. This included even the top generals who were on trial, who claimed that they did not see the results of their actions until the proceedings of the trials were complete. They said that they had been lied to and deceived by Hitler. All of this was for self gain.
Then nearly the entire Americas and Europe thought that what they were doing to the slaves was good in the name of economic and self-prosperity. Even churches existed within the walls of the slave trade castle. That's worse than putting a church in the middle of a Columbian drug field today, proclaiming virtue while performing horror.

Like the castle at cape coast, Elmina also had it's "Gate of no return". Whereas the cape castle one is large, the Elmina gate is small, just big enough to let somebody of my size through. A person of any sizable girth certainly would not be able to fit. All of the slaves that walked through could fit because they had been so starved for so long.

Again, this makes me feel more vulnerable, that maybe someday I might be ensnared by the same self-righteous trappings. I suppose this is a good realisation, and that an awareness of this weakness makes me stronger.
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Elmina - St.Jago fort
Just about a 7 minute walk up the hill beside Elmina castle is a fort. Its history is similar to that of Elmina castle, originally owned by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the English. It served mostly as a military base and lookout point. The top lookout point is quite high and one can easily see all of the village of Elmina and many nearby villages.

This is a 13 photos stitched together to give a panoramic view of Elmina from the lookout tower of St.Jago fort. Click here or on the picture to see a larger version.

Along with the castles, it has been declared as a world heritage site. Many years back, the fort was actually used as a hotel. Apparently business was very good. Then for some reason it turned to purely a tourist attraction. They wanted to reconvert it into a hotel again, but at that point it was added to the list of world heritage sites and those plans were brought to a halt. At first I though this was a good thing. However, the result is that since all of the hotels are expensive upscale hotels in Elmina, people decide to stay in the nearby cape coast instead for the night. As such they only have time to visit the castle, and skip out on the fort. While the castle get 100 000 visitors a year, I looked at the guest list for the fort and there was only like 10 visitors in the last week. So, many of the rooms are half converted to sleeping chambers, and the electricity to the place was cut because they couldn't pay the bills. It's a pretty nifty little stop though, just not quite as nifty as the castle.

Cape Coast & The Slave Castle - Ghana

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Cape coast - The village
A three hour bus tour to the west of Accra will bring you to cape coast. Located on the ocean, the town if very hilly and most of the shanty houses are tightly packed along the hillside, in an almost Victorian era like way.

This is a view of cape coast from up high. It is a picturesque, almost Victorian style town on a hill.

Like Accra, Cape Coast is very much a strange soup of underdeveloped/developed and African/European influences. It's almost surreal in a way.

This picture is taken from the cape coast slave castle. Just meters from the slave castle is cape castle's thriving fishing community, and children playing freely in the waves.

The slave castle - A history
This is most strongly felt in the presence of the cape coast slave castle. This castle is truly an experience. The castle is located on a rocky coast, with the waves splashing violently up against the sides. On either side of the castle is beach, with the east side serving as a bustling fishing community launch point. One can stand on the top of the castle, look down and see people gutting fish, selling oranges, children playing in the waves right in the shadow of what some people have called the greatest evil in history, the slave trade.
Estimates for the number of slaves that were traded off the west coast of Africa range from 12 million to 25 million. This makes for the largest involuntary ethnic dispersion in history. About a third of the slaves went to South America, a third to Portugal, and a third to North America.
They were used to man plantations of sugar cane, cotton etc... Which were dominating the world trade market. But this was tough work, thus the slaves came into play. There was what was called the "trade triangle" which a boat would travel, taking from 18 Months to 3 years. The boat would be made and manned in Europe. It would be filled with fabrics, jewellery, and weapons. These items would be taken to the west coast of Africa to be traded for slaves. The slaves would then taken be sold to the plantations in the Americas. From there the boat would pick up the finished goods farmed by the slaves and cart it back to Europe. From there it would load back up with fabric, jewellery and arms to return to Africa for slaves. Thus, the great "slave triangle".
Majestic horror
The cape coast castle is one of two nearly fully preserved slave castles, the other in Elmina about 30km away, both on the coast of Ghana. It is truly a testament to the horrors of the slave trade.

This is the courtyard of the cape coast castle. The canons in front would be filled with solid cannonballs that could fire 2km and put a hole in a ship to sink it. The Smaller morter cannons (against the small wall) would contain larger cannonballs filled with gunpowder that would travel 3km and explode on contact, igniting a ship into flames.

One is first struck by the how majestic the castle is. There are many upper chambers, and cannons overlooking the most vulnerable walls. There is even a church on the grounds... directly above the male slave dungeon.
Slave dungeons
The entrance to the male slave dungeon is exactly as the entrance to any dungeon is portrayed in the movies, a dark must curved archway leading down into the depths.

Descending into the slave dungeons...

There are five sections to the dungeons, 4 of the more or less the same. My estimates could be quite a bit off, but they were probably about 10m x 5m, and had an arched ceiling about 6 meters up. About five meters up the wall of a cell was a small window, about a food high and half as wide which was the sole supply of air and light to the room. The entire set of chambers was sloped downwards, with a small track in the middle through which excrement and urine would flow.
200 slaves would be housed in each of these rooms.

You can see the excrement tract that traverses downhill through the middle of the dungeons. The floor is not brick, it is petrified excrement and human remains.

People would of course die regularly in the inhumane conditions; malaria and malnutrition were usually what did them in the end. There were second opening in the chambers, from which 'domestic' slaves to the castle would check periodically to see if anybody had died and needed to be removed.
The ground is made of brick, but you cannot see it because there is a thick stone like hard layer above it. That layer is the remnant of humans bodies, blood, and excrement that pounded down hard enough by the number of slaves in the room to turn it rock hard. I walked on this floor.
The fifth room was reserved for the trouble makers, the ones who tried to agitate the crowds or try to escape. It was a maximum security cell. Holes could be seen on the walls where they were chained in a standing position, and the people were packed even more tightly that in the other cells.
The female slave dungeon was not too much different. There were only two rooms, but there were not as many women because they were not seen to be as useful for farming fields. The two rooms held 500 women.

On the side of a courtyard was another chamber. There were a series of three doors that would seal off the hallway entrance. Inside there was no hole for light or ventilation entry. With the doors closed the room would be in complete darkness. The sick, weak, and especially troublesome slaves would be sent to this room without food or water to starve, suffocate and die.
The door pictured here is actually from the Elmina slave castle, but it served the same purpose. As you can see the slave traders weren't shy about the death they were dealing out.

This never took more than two days before the bodies were removed and thrown into the ocean.
The gate of no return
When it was time for the slaves to be shipped out, they would be marched through a long tunnel under the castle to the entry port to the boats. The slaves that didn't decide to die in their homeland by throwing themselves into the ocean were shipped off, never aware even of their destination. The boat backed them like cargo, one on top of another. Of course many atrocities followed on the journey and once they landed in the Americas, but this is the story of the castle.
The large port door that led out of the castle into the boats was labelled (by the museum management) "The gate of no return". Slaves would be forever separated from their families and roots and often not live much longer.
The gate of return
Once the slave trade was abolished, the tunnel under the castle that led to the door of no return was sealed on both ends, symbolically representing the end of slave transfer, and to prevent corrupt people from sneaking in and continuing the use of the castle. In the Americas, two slaves who had died were taken back to the castle, and taken back through the door of no return to represent slavery would not in fact be the hopeless end of the African people. Thus, from the other side of the gate, there is a sigh that now reads "The gate of return".
Closing thoughts...
It is hard to know exactly what to make of the Slave castle, with it’s pristinely clean dungeons and the first urinal I have seen since I got to Africa (I still have yet to see a public bathroom in Togo), while simultaneously considering it’s hideous history. In all, it’s definitely a trip worth taking.

Know more about Ghana

2011-05-02T10:44:00.001-07:00

About Ghana

Looking for a pleasant place to travel and tour on the African continent? Then welcome to Ghana, often called "The Pride of Africa", considering itself as "Africa´s Heritage Country". The beautiful tropical weather as well as the famous hospitality and friendliness of the Ghanaian people makes Ghana the ideal destination for your next holiday. Besides of having a leisure time at one of our attractive beaches there is a lot more to discover in terms of historical, cultural and natural attractions in the capital Accra and any of the other 9 regions of Ghana.

	HISTORY, CULTURE & NATURE / GESCHICHTE, KULTUR & NATURE
	The Kingdom of Ghana was first mentioned by Arabic writers by the 5th century AD. It was located in the area that is today known as south-eastern Mauritania and south-western Mali. It expanded enormously by the 9th century but collapsed in the 11th century and was succeeded by the Mali Empire. The first ancestors of the people of today´s Ghana settled in the forest region in central Ghana. The Portuguese were the first Europeans landing on the shores of Ghana in 1471.
Related to the rich Saharan gold trade and the discovery of goldmines they called this area "Gold Coast". Other European nations like the British, the Dutch and the Danish followed and struggled to gain control. By the 18th century the Atlantic Slave Trade became a vast enterprise. In order to secure their domination, the nations involved built forts and castles. These were taken over from the acting factions back and forth. In the early 19th century the slave trade started to decline and palm oil, timber and rubber were of greater interest. By this time most of the fortresses were under British control. By 1850 the local population under leadership of the Ashanti started to build resistance against the British occupancy. After a long struggle Dr. Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana into independence in 1957. Historically interesting places are in abundance, like "The Golden Stool" of the Ashanti or the "Kwame Nkrumah Memorial" just to name a few. The Forts along the coastline are open to visitors to travel back in time and to learn about the hardships of the victims of slave trade. As many ethnic groups are united in Ghana you will find a great variety of cultural highlights. Mainly in Accra are places like the National Theatre, the National Museum, several Art Centres and even more Art Galleries. Interesting samples of traditional handicraft are to bee seen all over the country. Just think of the more than 150 different but always colourful patterns of Kente Weaving or the strong symbolic motives of handmade Adinkra Cloth, while elsewhere you get in touch with the art of pottery or woodcarving. In every bigger city you find a chance to visit our famous markets where you can improve your skills in bargaining. If you are into music you might be attracted by the typical art of drumming and traditional dances and have you ever seen a Bamboo Orchestra? The typical music form in Ghana is called Hi-Life and it´s modern rap oriented version called Hip-Life that you can hear up and down the streets. If it should be a bit more traditional than you have to attend one of the many cultural festivals which take place in every region. Ghana offers various landscapes ranging from maritime regions to tropical forests and African savannah. Beautiful waterfalls are to be seen as well as bizarre rock formations. Of course you can find all the typical African animals like elephants, lions, hippos and crocodiles, antelopes and monkeys. At the same time Ghana is a birdwatchers heaven with more than 700 different species. Some of the more than 850 different types of butterflies can only be seen in our country. Ghana´s 18 dedicated wildlife reserves demonstrate the strong commitment to preserve nature for our future generations.

ECONOMY
Ghana as one of the most save and stable countries on the African continent attracts an increasing number of business travellers. The government has set the framework to enter "The Golden Age of Business". The Ghana Investment Promotion Center (G.I.P.C.) provides the necessary expertise to identify the best investment opportunities. It also supports any move to enter a Joint-Venture or even establish your own enterprise. Especially the agricultural sector, but also the mining sector are promising. The emerging and fast growing IT-Sector is another interesting field.

ECO-TOURISM
Ghana is now attracting a new kind of tourists who are interested in the natural environment. The recent concern about the quality of the environment in which we live is driving Ghana to ensure that her remaining biological diversity is protected for our present and future generations. In the process of doing this, the concept of eco-tourism is rapidly gaining recognition and support.