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Aburi Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in Aburi in Eastern region of South Ghana.

The garden occupies an area of 64.8 hectares. It was opened in March, 1890. Before the garden was established, it was the site of a sanatorium built in 1875 for Gold Coast government officials. During the governorship of William Brandford-Griffith, a Basel missionary supervised clearing of land around the sanatorium to start the Botanic Department. In 1890 William Crowther, a student from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was appointed the garden’s first curator. The gardens played an important role in encouraging cocoa production in South Ghana, by supplying cheap cocoa seedlings and information about scientific farming methods. After Hevea Brasiliensis was sent to Aburi from Kew in 1893, the gardens also encouraged rubber production in Ghana.

Boti Falls is a twin waterfall located at Boti in Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. These twin falls are referred to as female and male.

The story of the Mystery Stone is that a stone was in the way of a road, and every time they moved it, it came back to its original position. It was taken progressively further away, and always came back, eventually the road had to be diverted to go around it. During the British in the then Gold Coast, there was a road that was to be laid near the Larabange Mosque and a stone was removed during the process to make way for the road. The next day, the stone was found again in the same place it was displaced from. The stone was again removed from the way and the same thing happened the next day. Later, the officials decided to build the road around the stone and it became the mystic stone.

Created in the 1970s is the home of birds, reptiles, deer, and about 700 monkeys. The monkeys are protected by traditional laws. Monkeys which die either through accident or naturally are given burial by the Fetish Priest of Daworo. A coffin is provided; the monkey will then be wrapped in a calico before it is put into the coffin for burial.

The largest slave market from the 15th century till the end of slavery in the 19th century. This site is now a sacred ground dedicated to the memory of those men and women forced to leave their homes. There is a near tangible silence at this site occasionally disturbed by birds and the two rivers at the site. See the tombs of 2 slaves returned from the US and Jamaica.