Paga is the major port of entry on the Ghana-Burkina Faso border. It is 40 km and a 45-minute drive from Bolga. The heritage and vestiges of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade can be found across towns and villages in Northern Ghana.

Slaves were marched on foot and in chains along these routes to market centres where they were sold to merchants.

The merchants marched the captives to markets in the south where they were sold to both European and local merchants from the coast.

The merchants from the south marched them on to the coast, where they were held in dungeons until slave ships arrived and exported them to the Americas.

Paga offers perhaps the most vivid insight into the lives of captives on the 400-mile march to the South. A slave camp near the sacred crocodile pond provides evidence of the harsh realities of the captives. Holes dug in rocks which served as drinking troughs and eating bowls are very visible, as are slabs of rocks that served as auction blocks and graves.