KAKUM NATIONAL PARK, GHANA
Kakum National Park is about 25 miles north of Cape Coast and has both virgin tropical rainforest and regenerated rainforest. There is a series of hanging canopy bridges which go from tree to tree.

The base of the rainforest...



In contrast, the canopy...





Looking down towards the rainforest floor from the canopy...



Pictures of the canopy walk...







A plank that's going bad!



People on the canopy walk...





A view in the distance, with some haze (appears to be rejuvenated versus virgin rainforest in the distance)...



Looking down on an African corkwood (Musanga cecropioides) tree...



A view of another African corkwood tree, but from the forest floor. Note the above ground roots which hold water (people supposedly use this during dry spells)...



Trunk and some leaves of the African corkwood...



A decayed tree stump (with new tree growing from it)...



One thing that is so common in the rainforest...tree trunks surrounded by so much other vegetation that you can't actually see any of the actual tree's leaves. This tree actually was labeled: the wedeaba, otherwise known as the Calabash nutmeg (Monodora myristica)...



The yaya tree (amphimas pterocarpoides)...



Ebony tree (Diospyros sanza-minika)...



(Native) cola fruits growing directly from the trunk...



A kapok (Ceiba pentandra) in the forest...



Close up to the trunk...



Sometimes one needs a person (like me) in the pic to see the relative size...



Looking up the trunk (can actually see some branches!)...



One last picture of the rainforest...





All of the above pictures on this page were taken in February 2014 by Brandt Maxwell.

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