Itinerary

1. Day 01: Arrive in Accra (Akwaaba Welcome)

   • Arrive in Accra, Ghana and meet our representatives at the airport.

   • Receive assistance and transfer from the airport to your hotel.

2. Day 02: Accra City Tour

   • After breakfast, depart for a sightseeing tour of Accra, the capital of Ghana.

   • Experience the city orientation and learn about its history as the capital since 1877.

   • Travel through administrative and economic districts.

   • Visit the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan African Culture.

   • See Independence and Black Star Square.

3. Day 03: Accra – Slave Dungeon Experience (Elmina)

   • After breakfast, check out of your hotel and depart for Elmina.

   • Visit Elmina Castle, also called St George’s Castle, built in 1482 by the Portuguese.

   • Learn about the relationship between Western slave traders and African tribes during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

4. Day 04: Slave Dungeon Experience and Elmina Fishing Village Tour – Reverential Night

   • After breakfast, embark on a tour of forts, castles, and slave dungeons.

   • Learn how the slave trade unfolded and its lasting global impact.

   • Visit Cape Coast Castle, originally built by the Swedes in 1653 and later taken by the British.

5. Day 05: Emancipation Durbar at Assin Manso

   • After breakfast, check out and drive along the former slave route to Assin Manso.

   • Visit the slave dungeons and the final transit point before departure to the New World.

   • See the final resting place of two ancestors whose remains returned from the USA and Jamaica.

6. Day 06: Kumasi City Tour – Ashanti Craft Villages

   • After breakfast, visit Manhyia Palace Museum.

   • Explore relics and artefacts revealing the regal Ashanti history dating back to 1700.

   • Enjoy a city drive viewing monuments dedicated to Ashanti heritage.

7. Day 07: Besease Shrine – Accra

   • After breakfast, check out and depart for Accra.

   • En route, visit Besease Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage traditional fetish shrine near Ejisu.

   • Learn about obosom spirits mediating between mortals and Nyame, the supreme God.

8. Day 08: Living Heritage Ceremony – Torgorme Village

   • After breakfast, travel to a village along the lower Volta River.

   • Pay a courtesy call on the chief and elders with traditional drumming and dancing.

   • Take part in a naming ceremony of recognition.

9. Day 09: Lome City Tour (Togo)

   • After breakfast, check out and travel to Togo.

   • Explore Lome city including Musée National and Place de la République.

   • Visit Independence Monument, Grand Marche and Marche des Feticheurs (Fetish Market).

10. Day 10: Lome – Ouidah (Benin)

    • After breakfast, check out and travel to Ouidah, cradle of African Traditional Religion.

    • Visit the Temple of the Sacred Python and the sacred forest with shrines dedicated to deities.

11. Day 11: Cotonou – Ganvie

    • After breakfast, depart for Ganvie, the village on water.

    • Experience daily life as locals trade from dugout canoes across the lake.

12. Day 12: Ouidah – Accra

    • After breakfast, check out and depart for Accra.

    • Stop in Lome and enjoy lunch on your own at a beachside restaurant.

    • Continue to Accra and overnight at The Pelican Hotel.

    • Meals included: Breakfast.

13. Day 13: Farewell Departure

    • After breakfast, check out and transfer to the airport for your final departure home.