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12 Day Unique Cultural Tours

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This tour takes you to Ghana to discover the Rich culture of Ghanaians, Togolese and Beninois. You discover the rich and famous Kente Cloth of Ghana and how it is weaved. Perhaps you may try you hands at it. You will also experience different kind of festivals and experience the various traditions.

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Trip Itinerary

Day 1 - Accra

 
Arrival.
Private Car Service

A member of our staff will meet you upon your arrival and offer transfer from the airport to your hotel.

Hotel

Enjoy Welcome Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Accra.


Day 2 - Accra

 
Orientation/ Accra City Tour.
Sightseeing

Begin the day with breakfast at your hotel. After breakfast there will be orientation on tour details and general information on Ghana and her culture. We shall drive through the campus of the University of Ghana, Legon and visit the University Bookshop to enable you enrich your libraries with a whole new collection from here.

Sightseeing

Depart Legon for a visit to the W.E.B. Dubois Centre for Pan African Culture. Re-live the ideals of the early Pan-Africanists who built the foundation of the African Union.

Food and Dining

Lunch is served at a Ghanaian restaurant in Accra.

Sightseeing

After lunch, we continue with a visit to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, final resting place of the mortal remains of Ghana’s first president. A guided tour of the facility is a summary of our fight for independence.

Shopping

Spend the rest of the afternoon at the arts and craft market located at the Centre for National Culture in Accra. Enjoy shopping from a wide range of Ghanaian and African artifacts and antiques while testing your bargaining skills.

Hotel

Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Accra.


Day 3 - Cape Coast

 
Heritage Tour – Cape Coast & Elmina.
Private Car Service

After breakfast, we shall check out at your hotel, and drive further west to Cape Coast.

Sightseeing

Upon arrival, experience the tour of the Cape Coast Castle originally constructed by the by the Swedes in 1653 and later ceded to the British who reconstructed it with dungeons and further fortified it by 1665 and used it in the gruesome Trans-Atlantic slave trade. A guided tour of this former British edifice brings out truths peculiar only to this building.

Food and Dining

Lunch is served at a Ghanaian restaurant.

Sightseeing

Next, we will tour the St George’s Castle in Elmina, the first prominent European Building in tropical Africa constructed by the Portuguese by 1482. The largest of all the European fortifications along the Gold Coast, this world heritage monument was put to various uses at different times including the slave trade

Hotel

Finally we will check in at one of our partner hotels in Elmina. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Elmina.


Day 4 - Kumasi

 
Natural Resources Kakum Rainforest – Obuasi Gold – Kumasi.
Private Car Service

Breakfast is served at your hotel. Depart your hotel and enjoy the drive to Kakum National Park.

National Parks

Here we spend part of the morning either trekking through or experiencing a bird’s eye view of this beautiful tropical rain forest from the canopy walkway 60 metres above the forest floor.

Sightseeing

From here, drive northward to Assin Manso to visit the Donkor Nsuo and also the site of the re-interment of two ancestors – Carson and Chrystal whose families brought their bones from the Diaspora to be laid to rest at home in Africa.

Wine

From here, we may stop at a local distillery to see the indigenous way of distilling our local gin.

Private Car Service

We shall continue to Obuasi, the site of one of the richest gold reserves in Africa.

Food and Dining

We shall have lunch at Anyinam Lodge.

Sightseeing

After Lunch, we shall visit portions of the mining area to acquaint ourselves with the wealth we possess in Gold.

Private Car Service

We continue even further north of Obuasi to Kumasi, the capital of the Asante Empire.

Relaxation

We shall check in at our hotel and spend the rest of the evening at leisure.

Food and Dining

Dinner and overnight at your hotel, Kumasi.


Day 5 - Kumasi

 
Asante Culture & Craft Villages.
Arts, Crafts and Antiques

After breakfast at your hotel, we shall visit craft villages near Kumasi to afford you the opportunity to have an insight into how our crafts are made. We shall begin with a visit to Ahwiaa the wood carving village, Ntonso the Adinkra cloth village and Bonwire the kente cloth village. In each of these places the experts will explain and demonstrate how the craft is made.

Food and Dining

Lunch will be served in Kumasi.

Sightseeing

After lunch, we shall continue to the Manhyia Palace, home of the present and previous Asante kings.

Sightseeing

We shall visit the Palace Museum where every relic is a story of an empire that was built on gold

Shopping

From here we shall drive through portions of Kejetia to view the largest open air market in West Africa.

Food and Dining

Dinner and overnight at your hotel, Kumasi.


Day 6 - Accra

 
Kumasi to Accra/ Leisure.
Private Car Service

We shall check out at your hotel after breakfast and drive southwards to Accra.

Relaxation

Once in Accra the rest of the afternoon is at leisure.

Hotel

Dinner and overnight is at your hotel, Accra


Day 7 - Accra

 
Visit Ga Chief.
Private Car Service

After breakfast at your hotel, we shall enjoy a drive to the harbor city of Tema located on 0 degree longitude or on the Greenwich Meridian. Here we shall be guests to the Chief of Tema.

Sightseeing

The rest of the morning will be spent in his Palace to view various performances on aspects of the way of life of the Ga people.

Sightseeing

After lunch, visit the local fish industry in Tema. Learn the processes involved in fish preservation. You may try your hands at turning the fishes as they are smoke dried.

Food and Dining

Lunch will be served in a home at Tema.

Hotel

After interaction with locals we shall finally drive back to have dinner and spend the night at your hotel in Accra.


Day 8 - Lome

 
Accra – Lome, Togo.
Private Car Service

Check out at hotel and depart for a drive east to the Aflao border.

Food and Dining

After immigration formalities, continue to Lome for lunch at a local restaurant.

Sightseeing

After lunch, enjoy a drive through the city of Lome to view the Independence Square.

Museums

For a summary of Togolese history we will visit the National Museum where relics and artefacts will tell us the story.

Sightseeing

We will then visit the fetish market to see witch doctors at work with fascinating items as their stock in trade. From here we will visit the fishing harbour to interact with locals. Finally we will visit the Art Street and Lome central market with its famous “Nana Benz”.

Hotel

Drive from market to your hotel for dinner and overnight in Lome, Togo.


Day 9 - Cotonou

 
Lome-Glidji-Ouidah-Cotonou.
Private Car Service

After breakfast, check out of hotel and depart for Cotonou.

Sightseeing

En route, visit Glidji, the spiritual capital city of the Guen tribe of Togo; meet chief priest of the sacred forest and learn about the ceremony of the raising of the sacred stone.

Museums

We will continue to Hila Condji to go through immigration formalities once again as we cross over to Benin. After crossing, we will head further east to Ouidah to first visit the historical museum, a former Portuguese slave fort. We shall go through the footprints of our ancestors to experience the slave route which ends at the Door of No Return.

Sightseeing

Upon returning we will visit the Temple of the Sacred Pythons.

Food and Dining

Lunch is served at a local restaurant in Ouidah.

Private Car Service

After lunch we will continue to enjoy our drive eastward to to Cotonou, the capital of the Republic of Benin, our third African Country.

Hotel

Upon arrival in the city, we will check-in at one of our partner hotels. Dinner and overnight is at our hotel in Cotonou, Benin.


Day 10 - Cotonou

 
Cotonou-Abomey-Ganvie-Cotonou.
Private Car Service

Depart from hotel in Cotonou after breakfast for Abomey the capital city of the great kingdom of Dahomey. En route, stop at Toussaint Louverture, the liberator of Haiti’s memorial and continue to Abomey.

Museums

At Abomey, visit Goho historical square and proceed to the historic museum, and ancient palaces of the kings of Dahomey. Visit the museum and interact with palace artisans.

Food and Dining

Lunch is at a local restaurant in Abomey.

Sightseeing

After lunch we will drive to Abomey-Calavi where we will enjoy a boat ride over the Nokoue Lake to Ganvie, the biggest stilts village in Africa.

Arts, Crafts and Antiques

While in Ganvie we will visit the village craft centre and ride past the homes to see locals attending to their daily chores.

Sailing

After this, we will once again enjoy the boat ride back to Abomey-Calavi and drive to our hotel.

Food and Dining

This evening we will have dinner with the locals at a marquee in Cotonou.

Hotel

Return to our hotel for overnight in Cotonou, Benin.


Day 11 - Accra

 
Cotonou – Lome – Accra.
Private Car Service

After breakfast, check out and depart hotel for a drive from Cotonou through Hila Condji border to Togo.

Food and Dining

We will stop at a restaurant in Lome for lunch before continuing to Aflao border to go through immigration formalities one final time as we return to Accra.

Hotel

Check in dinner and overnight at hotel, Accra. There will be a Farewell Dinner in your hotel.


Day 12 - Accra

 
Day at Leisure/ Departure.
Relaxation

Spend the day at leisure finalizing your shopping, packing and preparing for departure

Airport Transfer

Check out at hotel and transfer to airport for departure formalities. Depart aboard.


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