Ghana

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Bradt 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. 


This edition has been updated by Sean Connolly, author of Bradt's Senegal and a contributor to several of Bradt's African titles, who has been visiting the continent regularly since 2008. It has been thoroughly updated and carefully tailored to any changes in the Ghana travel scene since the last edition.

 

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
20 Mole National Park
439
21 Bolgatanga and the Upper East
453
22 Wa and the Upper West
471
Appendix 1
486
Appendix 2
489
Appendix 3
493
Index
497
Back cover
504
Copyright

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About the author (2016)

 Philip Briggs has been exploring Africa since 1986. He has visited more than two dozen African countries and written about most of them for specialist travel and wildlife magazines including Africa Birds & Birding, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa and Wanderlust. His long relationship with Ghana started in 1997, when he researched the first edition of a Bradt guide to the country that is soon to go into its 7th edition. Philip has returned to West Africa regularly since then to update the Bradt's Ghana and to explore neighbouring countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Gambia.He still spends at least four months on the road every year, usually accompanied by his wife, the travel photographer Ariadne Van Zandbergen, and spends the rest of his time battering away at a keyboard in the sleepy village of Wilderness, on the south coast of South Africa.

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