Ghana

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Bradt Travel Guides, 2014 - Travel - 494 pages
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 sixth edition is the first time the book has been updated by the original author since the 3rd edition. Philip has more than 20 years experience writing travel guides to Africa, and has overhauled the content to reflect broader changes in the Ghana travel scene over the past six years or so. This has resulted in a new look guide, with better maps, revised structure, along with the usual routine updating of all locations covered.
 

Contents

1 Background Information
3
2 Natural History
37
3 Practical Information
53
4 Health
97
Accra and Surrounds
109
5 Accra
111
6 Around Accra
157
The coast west of Accra
179
15 Koforidua and the Kumasi Road
333
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342
Central Ghana
347
16 Kumasi
351
17 Greater Ashanti
371
18 From Kumasi to Tamale
393
Northern Ghana
409
19 Tamale and Surrounds
413

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182
7 Winneba and the Cape Coast Road
183
8 Cape Coast and Elmina
199
9 Takoradi
229
10 Busua and Surrounds
241
11 Axim and the Far Southwest
257
Eastern Ghana
271
12 Ada and the East Coast
275
13 Akosombo and Krobo
289
14 Ho and the Volta Interior
303
20 Mole National Park
429
21 Bolgatanga and the Upper East
443
22 Wa and the Upper West
463
Language
477
Glossary
480
Further Information
484
Index
488
Back cover
496
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About the author (2014)

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. 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 in the sleepy village of Bergville, in the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg region of South Africa.

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