Complete Ghana Tour
Our complete Ghana Tour brings together all our knowledge and expertise of travel in Ghana to deliver a stunning tour that gives you an exciting and informative taste of Ghana.
Date: from October 2011
Duration: 15 days
Includes: Accommodation – single rooms, 80% meals, land transport, tuition, site visits.
Dipo dancers give an impromptu performance for tour guests in 2009
Our tours to Ghana have grown out of working with bead makers and artisans over twenty years. They began as a means of providing a more personal access to Ashanti crafts.
We have extended them to provide other routes to experience the places and people of Ghana, including cycling, walking, festivals and drumming.
On a Complete Ghana Tour you will encompass the whole country, investigating the cultures and peoples en route. As on all our tours, meeting the people of Ghana and seeing real lives is central. This tour incorporates eight rural ecotourism sites, where local communities promote their local attractions through Ghana’s Rural Eco-Tourism Initiative (GREET) to provide a village income, usually taking guests to sites of interest with a volunteer guide from the village.
Ghana is a land of great variety – from golden beaches and rugged coastline backed by the dense primary forest, through cocoa farms and maize farms and towering clifftop escarpment of the Eastern Region through to Ashanti. Beyond lie the savannah woodlands of Mole Game Park and the rocky hills and grasslands of the North. Northern Ghana is, culturally and scenically, a different world, a trade funnel through Mali to the Sahel, and home to many historically dispersed peoples, customs and languages.
You will meet the people, and experience the customs and the festivals, from Nzema and Ashanti peoples to Dagomba and Talensi in the North, Ewe by the Volta and Krobo in Eastern Region.
Highlights include Cape Coast Castle, Nzulezo lake village, Ashanti artisans, elephant watching at Mole National Park, Wli falls, Sirigu painted houses and Paga crocodile pond, Volta Lake and Koforidua Bead Market.
Our Complete Ghana Tours have small groups of no more than 6 people, so the travel itinerary is flexible and relaxed. The itinerary will be adjusted to take in local festivals and events depending on the time of year.
Complete Ghana Tour Itinerary
Day 1-3: Meet at airport and transfer to hotel. Tour of Accra, Ghana’s capital: visit the National Museum to learn Ghana’s history and cultural pedigree: visit the Arts Centre. Then along the coast via Winneba, Cape Coast Castle and Elmina, to Beyin http://www.beyinbeachresort.com and Nzulezo Lake Village and Community Ecotourism centre.
Day 4-6: Drive North to Kumasi, historic capital of the Ashanti nation, through exquisite scenery from the coast up onto the central plateau, to reach a lakeside hotel at sacred Lake Bosomtwe. Visit Ashanti artisan villages specialising in cast bronze, woven Kente and printed Adinkra cloth for the Royal Family, including the Adanwomase and Ntonso Community Ecotourism centres, and Kumasi’s giant central market en route to Techiman.
Days 7-8: See the sacred monkeys at the 150 year old Boaben Community Sanctuary and Kintampo falls en route to Mole National Park for an evening game watch. Early morning walk in the park with wardens to see elephants and antelope, and visit Larabanga mosque and the ancient textile weaving centre of Daboya before heading for Tamale.
Day 9-11: Traditional crafts in Tamale and Bolgatanga including visiting the Sirigu women potters for a guided tour of their wonderful painted houses of Sirigu , visit the Talensi people in the Tongo Hills and go with their traditional priest to the Tenzug Shrine, famous Bolga baskets and leatherwork, the Paga crocodile pond and, nearby, The “Rocks of Fear” – the dramatic slave camp of Pikworo.
Day 12-13: From Tamale to Nkwanta via the slave trading market of Salaga and its ancient underground wells, then to Ho and the country’s highest falls at Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary and Falls. Evening barbecue on the shores of Lake Volta.
Day 14: Akosombo dam and Koforidua bead market then a rural village tour to see cocoa farms and ancient gold mining pits before returning to Accra.
Day 15: The Arts Centre and beaches in Accra before evening flight.
Tour Cost: from £1250/Euro1425/US$2050 for two people sharing. For further information and bookings please contact us
please note: Not including air fare.
How this tour makes a difference
We visit at least eight community ecotourism initiatives which are run by village volunteers and where the guide and workshop fees go to a community fund. These are central to Ghana’s aim to enable tourism to reduce rural poverty. They help artisans have a sustainable livelihood with workshops and village tours. We ensure our guests interact sympathetically with the places we visit by keeping the tour groups small and working with local guides and drivers. We want you to learn about these people’s lives directly, so you will be taught traditional greetings and local language, how to prepare local food, appropriate dress and behaviour, and see and talk with fishermen and farmers, craftsmen and market women at work. Through the tour you will learn to feel at home in Ghana and to appreciate their wonderful community values.
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