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Flying Together 3-Ghana

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FLYING TOGETHER : 3 JOYS OF GHANA COL<br />

ELMINA (EDINA) CASTLE<br />

One of the major sites which will attract people all over the world is the Elmina Castle. It is an<br />

owesome painful experience for all who visit the site even today.<br />

V<br />

As in every continent the first European country to reach the area which became known as the<br />

Gold Coast was Portugal which always followed by the imposition of Roman Catholicisim. Two<br />

famous Portuguese navigators, Jao de Santarem and Pero de Escobar landed on the coast of<br />

<strong>Ghana</strong> (Gold Coast) in 1471. These two navigators had been commissioned by a Portuguese<br />

merchant to explore the West African coast for gold in order that they could bypass the Arab gold<br />

traders who controlled the supply.<br />

Gold mine still work even today<br />

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