See the “web of life” of which you are a part – the interdependences and symbiotic relationships which keep the natural world in perfect balance – genes, species and ecosystems. Whether you are in the forest, the open field, or on the beach, all life has a place and a meaning – the butterfly in the open field, the elephant in the forest or the waves that fold and open its arms onto the beach. This tour will re-connect you back to nature and to appreciate its intrinsic value.

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Ankasa Conservation Area: About 500km square situated in the Western Region of Ghana. Ankasa is the richest forest in terms of botanical diversity in Ghana with about three hundred (300) plant species have been recorded in a single hectare. Wildlife include the bongo and forest elephant as well as ten (10) primate species including the endangered Diana monkey and west African Chimpanzee. Bird fauna is also rich with at least 263 bird species recorded.

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Kakum National Park: An undisturbed rain forest, extending over an area of 357km square with some of the trees as high as 65 meters. The parks fauna includes over 550 butterfly species, over 200 birds species (such as the Frazer-eagle owl, African grey, parrot, bee-eaters, hornbills, and knight-fishers), over 40 mammal species (e.g. includes different monkey species, red river hog and the threatened bongo and forest elephant species) and about 7 primates. The tree canopy walkway, enables you to walk over the high tropical forest on a swinging bridge measuring almost 500m long among the tallest trees.

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Mole National Park: 4,577 square kilometres and offers visitors close encounters with wild elephants which can always be see near the lodge as they are attracted to the two dams nearby. 94 mammal species, over 300 bird species, 9 amphibian species and 33 reptile species have been recorded in Mole. The large and commonly seen mammals include elephant, kob, roan antelope, hartebeest, waterbuck, bushbuck, warthog, buffalo, several duikers, baboon, patas and green (vervet) monkeys.  Predators include lion, leopard, spotted hyena, caracal, aardvark, genet, civet and mongoose. Occasionally, buffalo overrun the park headquarters and the lodge area. Bird life includes kites and Bateleur eagles, rollers, kingfishers, Egyptian geese, egrets, pelicans and storks.  Ground hornbills, flycatchers, malachite kingfishers, guinea fowls and rock partridges occur in large numbers at Mole.

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Bia National Park: 563 square kilometer Resource Reserve and is an International Biosphere Reserve Park. The reserves are situated in the transition between the moist evergreen and semi-deciduous tropical forest and cover much of the drainage for the Bia river. Some of the tallest trees left in West Africa are found in this park. There are 62 species of mammals known to exist in the park including 10 primate species (three species of colobus, the Diana monkey and the chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, among others), leopard, buffalo, the forest elephant, Loxodanta cyclotis, and the bongo, Tragelaphus euryceros. Over 160 species of birds including hawks, eagles, bulbuls, flycathers, the black-collared lovebird and the threatened white-breasted guinea fowl live in this habitat. The park is the only known home of Agama sylvanus, a newly discovered species of lizard.

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Here is how to do it...

- Kakum National Park

- Tafi-Atome Monkey Sanctuary

- Keta and Avu Lagoons

- Volta River/Volta Lake

- Aburi Botanical Gardens

- Beaches in Central, Western and Volta regions