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A fair piece west of Ghana's capital, Accra, though still far short of
western neighbor Ivory Coast, lies a pleasant town with a grim history,
Cape Coast, one-time capital and debarcation point for slave ships.
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View from the porch of our hotel, was our first exposure to the
painting and refurbishing for Ghana@50.
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London Bridge now exists on three continents, though
it puzzles me why "1905" appears here, as it was 3-4 years earlier
that the English completed the smashing of the Ashanti kingdom and why
would Ghanaians want to commemorate that anyway.
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The Crab is my zodiacal sign and apparently the Cape Coast mascot.
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Delivery system for local merchandise. There are quite a lot of these.
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5/8 of a litre is how much beer you can expect unless you specify
otherwise, which is about what it takes to cool off back in Cape Coast
after a day at Elmina Castle and try to put aside for the moment the
gruesome particulars of the slave trade.
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Excellent sail, Cape Coast
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Kakum National Park is a substantial trotro ride north from
Cape Coast. Here's Ed on the skywalk. Not for the
vertiginous, this thing is 100 feet up and goes on for 7
suspensions'-worth (with 6 intervening platforms). You get to see the
forest canopy, but to my eye it was no different from what you'd
expect looking at unusual and incredibly tall trees from the tenth
floor of a building. If there's a special ecosystem up there, I could
not detect it. As an experience, though, it's definitely more exciting
than looking out a window.
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