The Citi TV and Citi FM’s Heritage Month officially launched on Monday, February 28, 2022, started with its on-air series today, Tuesday, on both Citi FM and Citi TV.
The first week of the Heritage Month on-air series looked at ‘Places of Historical Significance’ in Ghana.
To help with the discussion was International Travel Adventure Photographer and Filmmaker, Steve Ababio.
Although an international traveler, he is more Afrocentric. His interest in tourism was from his travels with his father as a child growing up.
Documenting his travels began in 2004/2005 when he got in the country from abroad.
In his view, touring Ghana, beginning from Accra, some very significant historical places to visit include the Christianburg Castle in Osu and the Jamestown Light House. He also encouraged tourists to explore the art gallery in the city.
He suggested that every interchange in Accra should at least have Murals that tell a significant historical story engaging the services of talented artists around the country. This he thinks will set Accra apart.
“I noticed that there were some Murals at the interchanges, which has stopped. I think that every culturally relevant city should have significant murals. Like Paris has the Eiffel Tower, London has Big Ben, amongst others.
Touring the Central Region, everyone would immediately think about the Cape coast. But according to Steve, tourism does not begin from the Cape coast, but rather Kasoa.
“Travelling through Kasoa, you would find some of the most incredible beaches in Gomoa Fete, then there is also a Fort at Senya Breku, then to Winneba which also has its own interesting stories, and a series of very interesting places before reaching Cape coast.”
Enthusiastically, he mentions the Mankessim Market as an interesting site to tour, particularly on market days.
He also made mention of the road network to these beautiful places, making it more of a difficulty for people to want to tour the places, depriving the nation of some revenues.
“The roads to these sites are definitely bad and need to be addressed. Nonetheless, on reaching the site, you can say it was all worth it.”
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