The Shai Hills Game Reserve is located about 40 miles from Accra on the Accra – Akosombo road. The reserve has a wide variety of wildlife including baboons, antelopes, bushbuck and assorted birds and bats.

The Akron team was able to drive deep into the reserve to view wildlife. The team also hiked up the rocky Hioweyo and Sayu hills to explore the caves that, according to legend, were some of the ancestral homes of the Shai people. Two members of the Akron team, Jon and April, returned to Shai Hills after the group’s visit for a whole-day expedition that took them to the far reaches of the reserve.