I can’t even begin to describe today other than to say that what was supposed to be a two and a half hour drive from our hotel in Accra to Kakum National Park was actually a four and a half hour drive—one way. I feel like I’ve seen all of Africa through the window of an old Mercedes on a potholed, dirt road. We left around 7:30am and got back by 8:30pm. So that means we were gone for about thirteen hours and literally ten of that we spent driving. Or in traffic. At least I was able to take some pictures in the three hours that we actually spent at the park and the Elmina slave trading castle.

Sign at entrance to Kakum National Park

First view of the canopy walk

On the canopy walk

Your intrepid traveler, a hundred feet off the ground

Reaching the first canopy platform

Me on a canopy platform

Another nice view of the canopy walk

View of the canopy

Yet another nice view of the canopy walk

One last view of the canopy walk

Note: These photos originally appeared in my photo galleries.

Update, Nov 11, 2011: I significantly reworked this post, adding the leading text from an email I’d written at the time, and adding the ability to enlarge the photos.

• Elmina Castle
• The long road to Glacier
• We survived the rain at Arches
• Saguaro National Park
• Pinnacles National Monument

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