Kakum National Park
Last weekend we planned a day-trip to the Kakum National Park, one of the remaining areas of rain forest that are protected nowadays. The park is near Cape Coast, so we had quite some travelling to do during the day. The plan was to start early in the morning, take the mini-van again and come back in the early evening. However, we have experienced quite often now that time has a different meaning in Ghana. Even though we called our driver again early in the morning to make sure that he was on his way, he arrived with a two hour delay.
The National Park has been founded in 1990 and presents an extraordinary diversity of animals and plants. As nowadays only about twenty percent of the initial rain forest remains in Ghana, many endangered species live in the park. We arrived in the early afternoon and started our exploration of the forest with a guide. As I do not know very much about plants,I would not be able to say anything about its diversity. However, a striking fact was the height of all the plants that we saw. This was the more obvious when we entered the Canopy Walkway, a trail in the trees at a height of up to 45 meters, including 7 chain bridges over a length of 330 meters.
Even though, in the end, we had little time in the park, the trip was definately worth the hours we had to spent in the car.
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