GHANA GETS FIRST SEA CANOPY WALKOVER..

A 105-metre long canopy walkway has been
constructed on the sea at Tema near the
Meridian rock which is believed to be the centre
of the world.
The canopy walkway, which cost over $200,000, is
the first canopy walkway on the sea in Africa.
It is stringed to the premises of the Ave Maria
Resort formerly known as Halcrow beach.
Mr Kenneth Akuffo Asare, the contractor, told
the Ghana News Agency that the canopy walkway
has a height of eight metres.
Mr Akuffo, who also constructed the Kakum
canopy walkway in the Central Region, assured
the public of its safety as quality materials were
used to build it.
He said polyester ropes, galvanised cables, bolts
and nuts and safety nets were used.
“Counting the Kakum and Bonsu canopy
walkways, this in the third one I have built in
the country, but it is the first one on the sea in
the whole of Africa,” Mr Asare said.
He said the closest one to the canopy walkway on
the sea was the one he built over a river in
Nigeria and appealed to the government and
other stakeholders to appreciate people with
extraordinary talents and give them the
necessary help to promote tourism in Ghana.
Mrs Theressa Ntim, the Managing Director of Ave
Maria Resort, said it was their desire to build
the canopy walkway to the Meridian Rock, but
the cost was more than her outfit could bear.
She said the walkway was built with the aim of
“promoting leisure and relaxation at the centre
of the world,” she said. She added that it was
her wish to do something extra to attract people
to have a look at the rock.
Mrs Ntim said the canopy walk would be opened
to the public at a small fee which would and
appealed to the Tourism Authority and the
Ministry of Tourism to help develop the many
tourism sites in Tema.