Accra
With its back mostly turned to the Gulf of Guinea, taking little advantage of its waterfront location, Accra crawls up and over a modern landscape, gobbling up real estate and producing a chaotic low-rise skyline.
With its back mostly turned to the Gulf of Guinea, taking little advantage of its waterfront location, Accra crawls up and over a modern landscape, gobbling up real estate and producing a chaotic low-rise skyline.
This region is more than just the cultural heartland of the country and the historic centre of the Ashanti.
At one time the capital of the rich and powerful Ashanti kingdom, today Kumasi is a bustling multiethnic metropolis.
Gingerly sliding across a rope bridge at dizzying heights is not for the agoraphobic.
This region, the largest in the country, rewards those with time and patience.
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