Kakum National Park Ghana
Kakum National Park
Kakum National Park is an island of tropical rainforest in a sea of agricultural lands — an isolated fragment of what was once a continuous belt of rainforest extending from Guinea through Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire to Ghana. Degraded by mining, farming, and settlement, and combed by hunters and timber extractors, Kakum now covers less than 140 square miles, but it provides one of the last remaining habitats for six globally-endangered species, including Diana monkeys, bongos, yellow-backed duikers, and forest elephants.
Kakum National Park Picture
Kakum also boasts of Africa’s only canopy walkway, which is suspended 100 feet above the ground, offering you what is truly a bird’s eye view of the rainforest. At this height, you don’t have to be an expert to identify the colorful patterns of tropical birds as they glide through the forest below you.
