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Best national parks in Ghana

Ghana’s two main parks sit at opposite ends of the country. Kakum, a short drive from Cape Coast and its slave-trade castles, is rainforest known for a canopy walkway of seven rope bridges strung forty metres up; go at opening time, before the school groups, if you hope to see or hear anything.

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Kakum National Park

Ghana

Kakum is the rainforest park thirty kilometres inland from Cape Coast in Ghana's Central Region, three to four…

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Mole National Park

Ghana

Mole is Ghana's largest park and the place in West Africa where elephants are most easily and cheaply seen, but it…

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Mole, in the northern savannah, is the country’s largest park and one of the cheapest places in Africa to see elephants, often on foot with an armed ranger, from a motel set on an escarpment above two waterholes. The dry season, November to March, concentrates the animals.

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