London to Ghana - West Africa 11 Weeks - Game parks and sites
Atlas Mountains – Morocco
The High Atlas mountains form a large part of the country and in its scattered valley live the Berbers, the people of Morocco before the Arabs arrived. The mountains are a barrier to the rain and so to the south is desert.
Basilica of Our Lady of Peace – Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast
Built during the tenure of former Ivory Coast dictator Félix Houphouet; this church can hold 18,000 people inside and the esplanade outside another 300,000. Regular attendances are just a few hundred people. It’s modeled after the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome and is the largest church in the world.
Gibraltar – near Spain
A British Navy outpost with a rock on a peninsular with an airport.
Gold Coast Forts and Castles – Ghana
There are around thirty slave castles, or forts, along the coast of Ghana. They were built by European traders original to trade lumber and gold, and then later used for the cross Atlantic slave trade. Millions of people passed through the gate of no return. From the theseportals overlooking the ocean the slaves were lowered into small boats to be taken out to cargo ships lying in anchor off shore, before crossing the Atlantic.
Kakum National Park – Ghana
A rainforest park with forest elephants, bongo antelopes and monkeys. There is a canopy walkway, suspended high above the trees giving treetop views of the jungle.
Royal Cities of Morocco
Fes, Marrakesh, Meknes and Rabat are the four historical capital cities of Morocco. These cities are a thousand years old. Each of these cities has its own character with; city wall and gate, markets with traditional Kasbah palace and fortress, an old city or medina inside the wall as and mosques.
Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert oases with cool water surrounded by palms, stretches of sand as big as a small country, old forts, camel trains following centuries old trading routes with a night sky undiluted by city lights.
Volubilis Roman ruins – Morocco
Roman ruins in morocco might be unexpected but many of the best are in North Africa protected by the dry weather and low population. Its listed UNESCO World Heritage Site as an exceptionally well preserved example of a large Roman colonial town on the fringes of the Empire.
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