14 Days Culture tour itinerary for ghana: Journey Across The Diverse Geography Of This Country

Accra Arrivals

• Your guide will meet you at the arrivals at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra for safe transport to your hotel in an air-conditioned vehicle where you will refresh and relax for the next day’s activities. Depending on your time of arrival, you may go through an orientation and a city tour.

• In your city tour, you will visit the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, the final resting place of Ghana’s first president and the Independence Square, where the independence of Ghana was declared in March 1957.

Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Bead Factory

• This morning, you will depart on a tour to the Shai Hills Resource Reserve located around 50 km northeast of Accra. Here you will see baboons, butterflies, zebras, ostriches, birds, bat caves, and cultural remains.

• This afternoon will be a tour to a bead factory where you will see processes involved in bead-making.

• Tonight, you will lodge in your comfortable hotel near the Volta River. Overnight: Volta River

Monkey Sanctuary, Wli

• Depart your hotel in the morning for a trip to the Volta Region. Your first stop today will be fun with the habituated mona monkeys at the Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary. According to residents, approximately 200 years ago, the ancestors of the residents of the Tafi Atome areas are said to have migrated from Assin in the Central Regions of Ghana to the Hohoe District.

• Stay overnight at Wli Water Heights.

• Hike along the Agumatsa Wildlife Reserve to feast your eyes on some animals in their habitats before going to have a look at the tallest waterfall in all of West Africa, the Wli waterfalls. The journey to Tamale comes next.

• Stay overnight at Wli Water Heights. 
  

• Breakfast will meet you at Tamale after which you'll have a look at one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, visit the leather factory, the central mosque which happens to be the biggest in all of Tamale all before leaving for Mole National Park.

• On getting to Mole Motel and after checking in, you'll join in the evening safari drive before having yourself an enjoyable time at the pool. Mole Motel also has nice viewpoints if you want to watch the sunset.

• A walk around the national park gives you some time to see animals that you most likely wouldn't see anywhere else. You will see baboons, buffaloes, antelopes, warthogs, birds and many, many more.

• A visit to Mognori eco-village will come afterwards where you'll get yourself a guided walk and a canoe Safari on the Mole River. The people of Mognori will also treat you to a scintillating cultural display before you return to your lodge at Mole Motel. If you get there in time you can get to watch the sunset while playing in the pool.

• Leave northern parts of the country to visit the home of the Ashantis in Kumasi. You will visit the Ketejia Market, the biggest open market in all of West Africa. The market always has traders from all of Ghana's neighboring countries and any given point in time.

• You will be driven to your hotel afterwards for dinner and nice night rest.

• Put on your best behavior today because you'll be visiting the Royal King's Palace of the Ashanti Kingdom. On getting there, you'll be told about the vibrant history of the Ashantis.

• You'll then proceed to the crafts villages around Kumasi here you'll get to see how they make the kente cloth and where they stamp prints on clothes at Adinkra. You may even get your own prints if you want.

• You can also choose to visit the healing shrine before the day runs out.

• This day is all about butterflies. You will visit the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary, a place popular for having more than 400 different butterfly species and more than 100 different trees too. Some of these trees are actually over 300 hundred years old. Awesome, right?

• On your way to the coast this morning, you'll make a stop at the Assin Manso slave market and cemetery. This place was were slaves from Northern Ghana had their last baths before being finally shipped out of the country.

• You will also visit the Elmina Castle, built by the Europeans themselves during the period of the colonial masters.

• Before calling it a day, you'll visit Posuban Shrines where you'll see fascinating architectural structures and statues. You'll also get to see Ft. San Jago that was built in the 1600s to protect the Elmina Castle from attacks.

• A visit to the fishing lagoon at Elmina wraps up your day.

• It is all about the adventure at the Kakum National Park as you'll get to walk on West Africa's only rainforest canopy walkway before you are given a tour of the forest to teach you the cultural, medicinal and economic importance of the plants you'll find in the forest.

• Hans Cottage Botel is a place where you'll find crocodile ponds and you will pay a visit to one of the ponds.

• You will move on to the Cape Coast Beach to relax or the rest of the day and prepare for the next day.

• You will again wake up to some nice time on the beach before you leave for a tour of the Posuban Shrine and marvel at its architectural structures before finally going to the Kokrobite Beach Village to settle at your beachside accommodation.

• One thing about Kokrobite is that you'll never have a shortage of fun and merrymaking as every weekend is a weekend to celebrate at the place. There are dances, music, cultural events, foods, and many more interesting activities.
  

• Today is all for lazying around on the beach. You have the whole day off o do anything you want, then when evening comes, you'll visit neighboring fishing villages where you will watch fishermen prepare for their evening adventure.

• We hope you never get tired of the beach because you get some more beach time before finally leaving for Accra. On your way, you'll get to see the West Hill Malls, the beautiful Oxford street in Osu before you earn yourself a nice lunch.

• A visit to Makola Market comes next. The market is the biggest open market in Accra.

• Next visit to Jamestown in Accra and W.E.B Du Bois center.

• You'll be dropped off at the airport afterwards for your departure.