GhanaBradt Travel Guides, Dec 16, 2016 - 512 pages Bradt's Ghana is the only dedicated guidebook on the market and the most comprehensive source of travel information on the country, written by Philip Briggs, the leading writer of guidebooks to Africa. Catering for all types of visitors, from bar-hoppers to birdwatchers, and covering everything from Ghana's 550km of Atlantic coastline to its remote and sparsely populated northern border, Bradt's Ghana is the most detailed resource for those who want to explore the country's wealth of tropical beaches, national parks, forest reserves, cultural sites and scenic waterfalls. It also includes more than 60 maps and is accompanied by a dedicated updated website run by the author himself. Friendly, safe and inexpensive, Ghana is an ideal destination for first-time visitors to Africa. It is rich in little-visited national parks, forest reserves, cultural sites and scenic waterfalls and blessed with bleached white beaches and the lush rainforest of the Atlantic coastline. Updated throughout, this revised guide includes authoritative history and wildlife sections, accommodation and restaurant recommendations and a wealth of background and practical information. Written by Africa expert Philip Briggs, it provides unrivalled detail and knowledge of this little-visited nation.
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Contents
1 Background Information | 3 |
2 Natural History | 36 |
3 Practical Information | 51 |
4 Health | 93 |
ACCRA AND SURROUNDS | 101 |
5 Accra | 103 |
6 Around Accra | 151 |
THE COAST WEST OF ACCRA | 175 |
14 Ho and the Volta Interior | 305 |
15 Koforidua and the Kumasi Road | 337 |
CENTRAL GHANA | 353 |
16 Kumasi | 356 |
17 Greater Ashanti | 378 |
18 From Kumasi to Tamale | 401 |
NORTHERN GHANA | 419 |
19 Tamale and Surrounds | 423 |
7 Winneba and the Cape Coast Road | 179 |
8 Cape Coast and Elmina | 195 |
Ghana in colour ii | 214 |
9 Takoradi | 227 |
10 Busua and Surrounds | 240 |
11 Axim and the Far Southwest | 256 |
EASTERN GHANA | 271 |
12 Ada and the East Coast | 275 |
13 Akosombo and Krobo | 289 |