Place
Cape Coast Castle
Culture / history
Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana
Cape Coast Castle is a museum and World Heritage site whose rooms and coastal position bear direct witness to commerce, colonial power, Atlantic enslavement and the African diaspora. Allow time for the guided interpretation and approach the site as a place of human history and remembrance.
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This Place can also become the starting point for another discovery.
Accra to Heritage Coast
Travel west by road from Accra to Cape Coast, then continue the short coastal distance to Elmina. The journey moves from the national capital into two distinct communities whose castles, streets and harbours require …
Continue with this Journey →Cape Coast to Kakum
Leave Cape Coast for the forested country north of the city and arrive at Kakum's public visitor area. The road transfer ends there; canopy walks and forest trails continue only through the park's managed …
Continue with this Journey →Heritage Coast to Kumasi
Turn inland from Cape Coast toward Kumasi for a direct link between the heritage coast and Asante country. This route avoids forcing every traveller back through Accra and makes the change from coastal lowlands …
Continue with this Journey →Where is it—and how do you reach it?
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