Article By: Martin Parry Among the tourist attractions in South Africa on World Cup football fans ‘must-do’ lists, one of the most notorious penal colonies of the last century is right up there. Robben Island is best known for being home to political prisoners jailed by the old apartheid government, most famously former leader Nelson [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article By: Joshua Howat Berger As the Lesotho Stars and Naughty Boys FC warm up for their match in a dirt lot on the outskirts of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, the players bounce to the beats streaming from a cell phone on the sideline. Some footballers wear just one shoe, some wear none at all, and [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article By: Godfrey Marawanyika Two years ago vervet monkeys were the main visitors crawling through Zimbabwe’s royal ruins, but now tourists are returning in numbers in another sign of the nation’s fledgling recovery. Cars drawing trailers and motorbikes bearing foreign number plates queue up at the gates to Great Zimbabwe, the ancient site where Shona [...]
Read the rest of this story »By Frank Eltman, Associated Press Writer Coopers Beach, with pristine white sand gently sloping toward a shoreline of lapping waves, convenient parking and amenities and nary a gum wrapper in sight, has been selected as America’s best beach in an annual survey released Friday to coincide with the start of the summer vacation season. “New [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has urged District Assemblies and the Ghana Tourist Board to mount billboards along major roads in the country to direct people to tourist sites along those routes. He explained that such facilities would promote tourism and increase tourist’s visit to those sites. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo wondered why [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – More than 100 foreign tourists and Ghanaians participated in this year’s four-day fifth annual paragliding festival, which ended on Monday. In all, 14 pilots from South Africa; United States of America (USA); Norway; France; Germany and Benin flew the foreign tourists and some Ghanaians from the take-off point on the Odwenanoma Mountains and [...]
Read the rest of this story »STORY: FROM MAGDALENE SEY, CAPE COAST A massive rehabilitation project is currently underway at the deplorable colonial European Garrison Cemetery in Cape Coast to add up to the tourism potential in the area. The 19th century cemetery situated at Bakaano near the Cape Coast Town Hall was the burial ground for British colonial garrisons [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – The Cape Coast Castle, one of the internationally acclaimed tourism monuments, in 2009 recorded an increase of 15,704 visitors representing 25.8 percent over the previous year. Mr Nicholas Ivor, Central and Western Regional Director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) said on Thursday that a total of 76,546 visitors toured the [...]
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