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KAKUM NATIONAL PARK:
Kakum National Park; Kakum National Park preserved 360 km/sq unique flora natural rain forest which harbors several species of animals (elephants, antelopes, monkeys etc…). It also has the Africa’s first ever built canopy walk way (40m high and 333 long).To add to the taste of tourists.

CAPE COAST CASTLE:
Whose gloomy slave dungeons, connected by dank subterranean tunnel to the “Door of No Return” pay somber testament to it's 18th century role as Africa’s most important slave trading post.

  THE STILTED VILLAGE OF NZULEZU:
Fascinating stilted village of Nzulezu founded some 500 years ago above jungle-bound Lake Amansuri, centerpiece of a community-based wetland reserve that supports a dazzling assemblage of a rare birds.
   

ELIMINA CASTLE:
Dating to 1482 the imposing St.Geoge Castle in Elmina is the oldest European building in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Though greatly expanded under Dutch occupation, the original Portuguese fortress and chapel are still intact and now fashion as a local histological Museum. This was where slaves were keptand transported by sea to red Indies the Americas and Europe. Elimina castle also has a museum and historic sites.

BOABENG-FIEMA MONKEY SANCTUARY:
Boabeng and Fiema Monkey Sanctuary: The Mona and black and white co lobos monkey the scamper mischievously Around the homesteads of Boabeng and Fiema, the twin village where according to oral tradition killing monkeys has been strictly taboo since 1831, and the death of a monkey is mourned as if it had been human.

 
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