After our few days jaunting around Accra we decided to get back out to the nicer coastline, stopping first at Kakum National Park.
The Park is famous for a canopy walkway of rope bridges, only 4 in the world - apparently. We arrived in the afternoon so opted to leave the exciting stuff until morning when the crowds had dispersed. Being a weekend there were a few people around, and I think Kakum is the closest thing Ghana has to Alton Towers. No rides or anything but it is well developed and attracts allot of visitors from the city. One interesting point was the campsite which is located on the side of a deep valley, well in amongst the very dense and semi rainforest undergrowth.
We cooked up in the car park, watched on a by a few characters, lots of Nigerians (we watched our backs - ha ha). When the serious subject of eating was over we joined a couple of other fellow campers for some drinks. The bar closed early (about 6!), one beer was going to be enough, but then Mark a nice English chap we met opted to stroll into town to gather supplies. Back at the tents it was pretty atmospheric and we sunk a few beers, which kept appearing from Marks bottomless Tardis like backpack, apparently he used to work for Wetherspoons. I always figured they had secret beer making machines to sell them at the those prices.
When the beers eventually did run out we hit the sacks, our previous plans of letting blood curdling screams into the forest were scuppered, mainly because the group of American ‘dancers’ camping nearby were running around screaming anyway.
We woke up super early ready for our guided walk at 5:30am! The guide turned up at 7 and we went on our way. The rope bridge was very impressive, and pretty high in some points (someone quoted 125m, seems a little too high to me - but maybe), and it really did sway quite a bit when you walked across it. Im not too bad with heights so found it ok, but could see how other people may struggle. I was also harbouring a nice ear infection from surfing in Accra, so the lack of balance spiced it up a little bit. The bridges were very well made and everybody survived the walk - so back to the coast we go
