9-Day Benin, Togo and Ghana Cultural Tour with Ouidah and Cape Coast

• Arrival and pickup, followed by drop-off at your hotel for an overnight stay.

• Visit the Cotonou craft market.
• Journey to the Amazon statue.
• Explore Ganvie stilt village.
• A tour of the Temple of Pythons, a site of historical and modern symbolism and spiritual practice in Ouidah, Benin Republic, will follow.
• Explore the Sacred Forest and the Point of No Return.

• Leave Ouidah for Abomey. Arrive and tour Abomey, the capital of the former Dahomey Empire. This empire, which lasted 300 years, rivalled that of the Ashanti, and both established their power by constantly being at war and capturing prisoners for the slave trade.
• Visit one of the 12 magnificent palaces built by the Dahomey Kings, now a museum.
• We will visit the war room, the common grave of King Glele's 42 wives, and the throne room.
• Visit the Chameleon Temple and a fetish market.
• Return to Ouidah for an overnight stay at your hotel.

• Leave for Grand Popo, visit the turtle sanctuary and the salt village, and maybe witness a Zangbeto ceremony in Grand Popo.
• Continue the trip to the border of Togo.
• After immigration, take a boat ride to Togoville to visit the ancient German Cathedral and the traditional museum of the King of Togoville.
• Continue to Lomé for an overnight stay at Hotel Napoleon Lagune.

• Visit the Akodesséwa fetishes market, where we can find magic remedies and local voodoo charms used by local sorcerers, and then go to the Grand Marché.
• Continue to the border into Ghana and then leave for Accra.

Overnight stay at the Best Western Premier Hotel.

• Get picked up from the hotel for a trip to the Central Region, with a stop at Fantasy Coffin Makers, which makes special coffins that reflect a person's job while alive.
• Continue to Cape Coast Castle (Fort Carlsborg).
• Experience a cultural drum and dance session with the Akumapa dance group.

Overnight stay at the Elmont Resort or the Elmina Beach Resort in Elmina.

• Set off for the Western Region to visit the Bisa Aberwa Museum, which is dedicated to promoting African values and celebrating Pan-African heroes.
• Continue to Nana Nketsia's Palace for a naming ceremony amidst traditional drumming and dancing, and be given traditional Akan names.
• Join the Paramount Chief for lunch.
• Return to the beach resort in the late afternoon.

Overnight stay at the Elmont Resort or Elmina Beach.

• Depart from Elmina to Accra.
• On arrival in Accra, drive past Independence Square and Osu Castle to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, the final resting place of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President, and the Accra Arts Centre.
• Spend the night at the Best Western Premier Hotel.

• Relax a bit before your pickup for a cooking session and lunch.
• Afterwards, you will be dropped off at the airport for your final departure.