Ghana Cycling Tour
Our Ghana Cycling tours bring together all our experience of travelling in Ghana to provide unique cycling holidays that give you the opportunity to see the best of Ghana. As a Ghana tours specialist we deliver exciting cycling tours that leave you with wonderful memories of this fantastically beautiful country.
Date: Call for dates
Duration:Whatever suits you, from single days to two weeks.
Includes: hotel accommodation or resthouses or camping in remote areas, vehicle support to carry luggage and spares.
Amazing holiday experience
Our Ghana tours 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 and crafts people.
We have extended them to provide other routes to experience the places and people of Ghana, including cycling, walking, festivals and drumming.
Our Ghana Cycle holidays enable you to smell the air, stop and talk to people, or wave to farmers in the fields. Cycling in Ghana, seeing communities, lakes, mountains and farmland from a bike you have a different holiday experience.
Typically you will be cycling from 30 to 70 km on largely traffic free roads varying from good tarmac to smooth compact gravel to dirt. This is eco-tourism, travelling sensitively through communities, conserving resources and experiencing the Ghanaian way of life.
Our Ghana Cycling tours are available at any time throughout the year and are very flexible, so please contact us for further details.
Ghana Cycle Tour Highlights
On a Ghana cycling holiday you will cycle from two locations. The first at Busua on the west coast with beautiful golden sand beaches, ancient colonial castles and the Cape Three Points Forest Reserve, and the second a hilltop location in Aburi with its famous botanical gardens from where you can travel to scenic waterfalls and Lake Volta.Typically includes:
- Visiting the slave castle at Cape Coast
- Cape Three Points Forest Reserve and beaches
- Dugout canoe trips on the lagoon
- Trail and rough road cycling along the shores of Lake Volta.
Ghana Cycle Tour Full Itinerary
Bikes and helmets are provided, or you can take your own. The tours includes bike, guide, car support where appropriate, water and food, accommodation and return by car. The mountain bikes have aluminium frame, front suspension forks and V breaks. We do as little biking as possible on busy main roads. We take you to beautiful remote places in the bush by cycling on small tarred roads, dirt roads and farm trails.
You will be met at the airport and taken to Busua, via Cape Coast Castle, the 17th century slave trading fort. From there you have a range of guided longer trips or solo cycles with maps. We recommend acclimatisation with day trips following which you can undertake a three day guided cycle with hotel or camping accommodation to Beyin and the lake village of Nzulezo.
After five days in Busua you will be taken to Aburi where again you have choice of over 650 km of routes, some solo with map and some accompanied by guides. A three day cycle to Lake Volta, with basic rest house accommodation en route and camping in a lakeside village by Lake Volta, is the highlight of this trip.
The flexibility of the tour makes it appropriate for both moderate and stronger cyclists, who will be able to take more demanding routes. You will cycle unloaded, travel slowly where necessary and be able to stop and buy roadside snacks or look at places of interest as you pass through.
Day-by-day itinerary (typical)
Day One. From the Capital, Accra, we drive along the coast passing old slave forts and bustling fishing villages, via Cape Coast and Takoradi to the fishing town of Butre where we stay at a beach resort close to the town’s Fort Batenstein.
Day Two. You will be met by your guides and fitted with bikes and helmets before a gentle days acclimatising cycle to to Cape Three Points lighthouse (40 km).
Day Three. An interesting mixed route inland starting on tarred but quiet roads and then trails through farmland (30-60 km).
Day Four.Along the coast past Cape Three Points forest reserve and some of Ghana’s most spectacular golden sand beaches, through rubber and palm oil plantations to the historic towns of Princes Town to stay overnight (60 km).
Day Five.Along the coast and across the Ankobra river to Esiama and Beyin (50 km).
Day Six.A short cycle towards Nzulezo which is a village built on stilts in the lagoon as security against attack in historic times. The final part of the journey to the village is in dugout canoe (10 km)…Or… Along the coast to the Ivory Coast border at Half-Assini and the Tano River (45 km). Then by car back to Busua.
Day Seven.Vehicle take yourselves, luggage and bike from Busua to Aburi.
Day Eight.There are over 650 km of trails from the Aburi base (some shown on the google map here). They include flexible 22, 26 km solo marked trails with a map and guided trails. Your guides will put together a suitable combination from one and two day trips or a three to five day bike rural community tour towards Volta Lake and then up the Kwahu escarpment.
Day 8 (option)
One day tour of to Boti Falls, a local beauty spot is for people who like cycling, have endurance and are adapted to the Ghana weather. 20% tarred road, 30% single trail and 50% dirt road give the tour an interesting mixture with plenty to see (66 km).
Day Eight – Nine (option).A two day bike tour on the first day to Boti falls (66km, 8 hours) and on the second day to Akosombo (45.5km, 5 hours).
Days Eight to Ten (option). Aburi to Boti-Falls: visiting caves and the umbrella rock as well as the magical shrine at the three trunked palm tree on the way. Staying at a basic local resthouse above the falls (66 km).
Boti Falls to Abouso: from Boti Falls towards Lake Volta, on remote and quiet roads through farmland with rocky hilltops on either side. Camp by the lake and enjoy camp site food prepared by your guides (68 km).
Abouso to Begoro: touring the farmlands and pure lush forests of Abouso and its surrounding villages. Stay in the cool climate hilltop town of Begoro (55 km).
Days Eleven to Twelve.Cycle from Begoro through the mountain top forest reserve to Bepong, then down towards the lakeside ferry point at Adowso.
Day Thirteen. Return to Accra for return flight or optionally, spend another day or three in the Volta region climbing Afadjato, Ghana’s highest moutain, visiting Ghana’s highest waterfall, Wli Falls, and seeing the sacred monkeys of Tafi Atome before returning.
How this holiday makes a difference
Ghana does not have a significant tourist industry in the areas we visit. We will be supporting the first developments of tourist infrastructure which are designed around community run facilities, whose income goes back into the community.
The tour’s carbon footprint is low – some guest houses will have no electricity, and rely on rainwater or local streams for their water supplies. The number of people on each tour is small, since we are guests in these villages, not voyeurs.
Tour Cost: from £900/Euro1030/US$1480 for 12 days. There is a variety of accomodation available at each venue from simple rest houses to three star hotels. For further information and bookings please contact us
please note: Our tours do not include airfare. More information about flights to Ghana.
View Aburi Cycle routes in a larger map
Take a look at this detailed description with photos of a recent cycling trip across ghana http://www.ghana-tours-travel.com/tours/cycling-tour/lur-epeldes-trip
