Hiking trails in Western Region

The Western Region rewards travellers who like to walk. Three very different places here share one thing: trails that take you through forest, along the coast, and into villages where walking is simply how people get about. Butre Beach, also called Coconut Beach, is the narrow palm-fringed strip at the fishing village of Butre, where the Butre River meets the Atlantic. Further west, Ezile Bay Beach is a roughly 300 m almond-shaded beach in a small protected bay between Akwidaa and Katakor, near Cape Three Points, and is home to Ezile Bay Ecolodge. Inland, Nini-Suhien National Park is a 160 km² wet evergreen forest park that, together with the Ankasa Resource Reserve, forms the roughly 500 km² Ankasa Conservation Area.

They differ in mood as much as in landscape. Butre and Ezile Bay are coastal and community-run, with boat experiences and village life close at hand. Nini-Suhien is deep forest, a national park and wildlife reserve where the walking is about trees, birds and shade rather than sea views. All three list hiking trails among their experiences, so you can shape a trip that moves from shoreline to rainforest.