We had another early 5.30 am breakfast as today we headed for the excellent canopy walkway at Kakum National Park, a 15 minute drive from our hotel. The 360 km² Kakum National Park protects secondary upper guinea tropical rainforest and our aim was to get there for first light enabling us to spend the most active bird viewing hours 40 meters above the forest floor on the canopy walkway, on one or more of the seven platforms which are joined by...

Although we could have returned to Nsutu forest for a final mornings birding before setting off for The Rainforest Lodge Hotel at Jukwa, our accommodation for the next 3 nights, whilst we visit the Kakum National Park we decided against it because of the state of the roads. Instead we went to a marshy area near the beach, albeit it was quite dry now and found all the tchagras - marsh, black crowned and brown crowned, swallows collecting mud for their nests (tod...

After our normal early trek to the shower block and breakfast we had our last morning birding in Ankasa. We stopped at the National Parks display area and Ken showed us two aerial photographs of the park taken in 1984, when it was surrounded by Forest and in 2007 when it was an isolated pocket - they have now reinforced its borders to prevent any encroachment - it was originally preserved to secure the water supply and that need is probably greater now than ever ...

We were up for a 5.30 breakfast and a jeep trip deep into the forest, Foster drove us and William was joined by a local ranger/guide,Ken, who could answer all our non birding questions. We stopped by the power line supplying Ivory Coast ( and who beat Ghana in Sunday's Final of the African Cup) and got out to begin our days birding walk in this exceptional rainforest we saw amongst many species the mighty crowned eagle soaring overhead, the great blue billed tura...

We woke at 5am from our hot sweaty sleep and I headed for the bathroom. Luckily last night after thinking there was no water I found the taps under the sink .....so we were able to have cold showers ( there was no hot water and this was probably a bonus after the initial shock!). Breakfast was in the dark - still no power - so we took the table outside into the cool half light and had omelette and toast with some lovely fresh pineapple - the sweetest we have eve...