12 Days Ghana History and Culture Tours

Day 1: Arrival and Airport Pickup to Your hotel

1. 1h · Admission ticket included
   Our guide will be at the arrival hall waiting for you. Upon arrival he will pick you to your hotel.
2. Accra
   3h
   Depending on your arrival time, you can enjoy night life of Accra.

Day 2: Shai Hills and Boat Cruise Tour

1. Shai Hills Resource Reserve
   2h · Admission ticket included
   Get to see Zebras, Baboons, ostriches, Antelopes (dry season only), museum, climb Mongo to see the whole park and also to see the cave where Dipo rite is performed.
2. 30m
   Have opportunity to cruise on the volta river the largest and longest river in West Africa.

Day 3: Accra City Tour

1. Accra
   4h
   After the canopy walk, we shall have our lunch headed back to Accra.
2. Makola Market
   20m · Admission ticket included
   Travelers will have opportunity to buy whatever they want in the famous Makola market and do window shopping as well
3. Center for National Culture
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Travelers will have opportunity to see various Artworks by local people, and they can buy some as souvenirs.
4. Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Travelers will see where Ghana's first President was buried and history of Dr Kwame Nkrumah the first President of Ghana.
5. Independence Square
   20m · Admission ticket included
   This was where Ghanaians gathered every 6th of March to commemorate with our Ancestors that fought for independence for Ghana in 1957. Here, travelers will have opportunity to take pictures and have fun,
6. W.E.B. DuBois Center
   1h · Admission ticket included
   William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African-American civil rights activist who became a citizen of Ghana in the 1960s. He was known as the ‘Father of Pan-Africanism’. The centre, where he and his wife once lived, and where they are now buried, houses his personal library, a small museum with a handful of personal effects such as his graduation robes. The couple’s mausoleum is surrounded by Asante stools, a seminar room, a restaurant, a gallery, an amphitheater and a research Centre for Pan-African history and culture.
7. 1h · Admission ticket included
   The National Museum of Ghana is in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. It is the largest and oldest of the six museums under the administration of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board. The museum building was opened on 6 March 1957 as part of Ghana's independence celebrations. Here tourists will learn and see the culture and indigenous tools used during the Gold Coast days.

Day 4: Aburi Botanical Gardens, First Cocoa Farm in Ghana and Waterfall

1. Aburi Botanical Gardens
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Get to enjoy the botanical gardens and learn about the garden's history and medicinal values of some plants in the garden.
2. 1h · Admission ticket included
   Get to know and see the first Cocoa farm in Ghana and learn the history behind cocoa and also how cocoa beans are processed and use to make chocolate.
3. 1h · Admission ticket included
   Get to enjoy the refreshing waterfall.

Day 5: Cape Coast Tour

1. Cape Coast Castle
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Cape Coast Castle served as one of the slave castles built on the shores of Ghana. It also served as the Administration center for British rule in West Africa. Participants will visit the museum and dungeons where slaves were kept while awaiting shipping to the New World.
2. Elmina Castle
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Elmina Castle is the first Slave castle built in 1482 by Portuguese. Here we will hear the history slavery in then Gold Coast present day Ghana.

Day 6: Cape Coast Tour

1. Kakum National Park
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Get to enjoy the Canopy walkway in the Kakum forest. No possibility of seeing animals as the animals show only in the night.

Day 7: Beach Relaxation

1. Cape Coast
   1 day
   Beach relaxation

Day 8: Assin Manso Slave River and Transfer to Kumasi

1. Assin Manso Ancestral Slave River Park
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Assin Manso slave river is where the enslaved Africans had their last bath before taking them to both Elmina and Cape Coast Castles.
2. Kumasi
   3h
   Transfer to Ashanti Kumasi

Day 9: Kumasi City Tour

1. Manhyia Palace Museum
   1h · Admission ticket included
   At the Manhyia Palace Museum, learn about Ashanti history and their heritage and tour part of the palace which is open to the public.
2. Okomfo Anokye Sword Site
   45m · Admission ticket included
   Tour the site of the powerful traditional priest that conjured the Ashanti golden stool and planted a sword and declared that no human can uplifted it from the ground.
3. 45m · Admission ticket included
   Visit the cultural center and buy the art works of your choice.
4. Kejetia Market
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Visit the biggest market in Kumasi

Day 10: Bonwire Kente Weaving Center and Transfer to Accra

1. 3h · Admission ticket included
   Get to see how Kente is being weaved locally with hand and phurchase any if you want. After we drive back to Accra
2. Accra
   3h
   Drive back to Accra

Day 11: Resting Day

1. Accra
   1 day
   Resting Day

Day 12: Final shopping and Airport drop off.

1. 20m · Admission ticket included
   Goodbye home

Pickup details

Free Pick Up and Drop Off within Accra City specified.

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels