HISTORICAL/ HERITAGE TOURS

Highlights

  • Arrive and transfer to hotel Brief orientation and check-into your room
  • Accra city tour and sights – Visit Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, WEB Du Bois Centre, drive through Old Accra – Jamestown (British Accra) & Dutch Accra. Drive around the Independence Arch, Black Star Square and shop at the Arts and Craft Market.                               
  • Courtesy call on the chiefand elders of a community amidst traditional drumming and dancing
  • Naming ceremony
  • Beads Factory to observe the process of traditional bead-making.
  • Depart to Kumasi and explore the Asante Kingdom
  • Go on a city tour of Kumasi visiting the Manhyia Palace and the Palace Museum. 
  • Kumasi city tour & crafts villages – Experience Asante craftmanship by visiting some of the Ashanti Craft villages– Bonwire/Adanwomse (Kente Weaving village), Ntonsu (Adinkra Village), Ahwiaa (Wood carving Village).
  • National Cultural Centre, Prempeh II Jubilee Museum, the Okomfo Anokye Sword and the Kumasi Central Market – the largest open-air market in West Africa.
  • Visit the DONKO NSUO (the slave river) where the African captives were allowed to take their last bath in waters of their native land before transported to the slave dungeons for shipment
  • Visit the Elmina Castle a UNESCO Heritage Site. The first and oldest European structure built of any substance on African soil; built by the Portuguese in 1482. Go on a comprehensive guided tour of the castle and see the slave dungeons and condemn cells where enslaved Africans who attempted to escape were incarcerated.
  • Visit the Kakum National Parkand go on a hike in the forest to experience the canopy walkway suspended 100ft from the forest ground.
  • Cape Coast Castles UNESCO Heritage Site which was originally started by the Swedes in 1652. for a comprehensive guided tour of the Castle, the slave dungeons

Departure

.

 

 HIKING AND ADVENTURE ( 5 Days )

Highlights

  • Arrival and transfer to the hotel
  • Depart to the Volta Region – climb the highest mountain in Ghana.
  • Visit the highest waterfalls in West Africa ( wli Water falls )
  • Kakum national pack – hiking on the canopy walkway and view of the natural forest
  • Accra City Tour – Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, British Accra and the Art center.

Departure