Other Tour Packages
Our tour packages are varied and flexible. Samples have been presented below and can be customized to suit the experience you want. Please contact us for detailed itineraries and costs.
Ghana: A Brush With Nature (7 days/6 Nights)
Highlights:
- Drive to Aburi Botanic Gardens where there are many indigenous and exotic plants.
- Visit the Manhyia Palace museum located within the precincts of the official residence of the Asantehene, the craft villages and the Central Market; one of the biggest in Ghana and see a wide variety of products.
- Cruise on Lake Bosomtwi, a world scientific museum lying in a crater of 18kilometers in diameter and about 100 meters deep.
- Enjoy story telling by the fire side in a rural setting.
- Watch live performance from Kukyekukyeku Bamboo Orchestra. The Kukyekukyeku group has made all their instruments with only bamboo and second to none in bamboo orchestration.
- Journey Kakum National Park, learn about trees, medicinal plants and their uses, experience the canopy walkway.
- Watch birds and crocodiles and journey Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle dungeons.
Ghana: Discover An African Renaissance 14 Days/13 Nights
Highlights
- Explore Accra with a visit to the National Museum where we learn about Ghanaian traditions, history and culture, and continue to the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum. Our sightseeing will include Makola Market, Arts Centre, Independence Arch, etc.
- Journey Aburi Botanical Gardens, one of the oldest and most beautiful in Africa. Visit one of Ghana’s premier bead factories. Learn about the history of bead making and trade.
- Spend an entire day exploring scenic waterfalls, tropical rain forests, wildlife preserves and the largest man-made lake in the world.
- En route to Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region, there will be stops and visits to Cocoa Research Institute at New Tafo.
- While in Kumasi, discover the cultural and artistic treasures of the Ashantis at the Manhyia Palace Museum of Ashanti Kings and Queens. Admire the exhibits at the National Cultural Center, where artifacts and royal regalia from the Ashanti Empire are displayed. Observe the purifying of ancestral stools, the Adae festival observed on Sunday every 40 days and see the pomp and pageantry that characterize the occasion. Visit the craft villages and try your hands on Adinkra Printing.
- Make a detour to Boabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary en route to Mole National Park.
- Spend full day leisurely at Mole National Park that supports 740 plant species, 93 types of mammals (including elephant, leopard, lion, buffalo, hippopotamus, cob antelopes, baboons and waterbuck), over 300 subspecies of birds and 33 types of reptile.
- Drive southwards to Kumasi. Stopover en route at Kintampo Waterfalls – the about 25m high waterfall has a swimming pool at the base.
- Following a major slave trade route, drive south toward Elmina. At Assin Manso, stop on the banks of Donko Nsuo, the “Slave River,” where captives encamped for their last taste of African waters.
- Enjoy a bus tour of the Elmina town which is a living museum and understand the history and culture of the people. Visit the first European-built Castle in Ghana, constructed by the Portuguese in 1482. Later in the afternoon, learn about the rich traditions of Ghanaian music.
- Visit the lush rainforest of Kakum National Park - harbors more than 40 large mammal and 400 bird species. Venture on to the park’s most popular attraction: Africa’s first and only canopy walkway. Drive to Cape Coast, visit the Castle and learn how it served as the final African stop for millions of captives who were shipped to the Caribbean and the U.S.
- Morning at leisure and later in the afternoon participate in a culinary demonstration where we learn how to cook with Ghanaian herbs and spices. This evening celebrate the end of our journey with a festive farewell dinner, featuring a performance by a local bamboo orchestra.
- Enjoy a last opportunity to purchase gifts at the African Market.
GHANA-TOGO-BENIN Contrast of Cultures (14 days/13 nights).
Highlights
- Begin our exploration of Accra with a visit to the National Museum, Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, dedicated to Ghana’s former leader, and then discover the renowned Makola Market, where women traders sell produce, clothes, tools and medicines.
- Depart to Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. Known today as the “Garden City,” Kumasi actively trades in cocoa, rubber and cattle and boasts one of Africa’s largest markets. Enjoy an exploration of Kumasi and its environs and learn about the expertise of the Ashantis in several forms of craft work, particularly weaving, wood carving, Adinkra cloth, etc.
- Discover the cultural and artistic treasures of the Ashantis at Manhyia Palace Museum and the National Cultural Center. Enjoy the pomp and pageantry as well as amazing regalia and paraphernalia on an Akwasidae festival held periodically at the palace.
- Follow a major slave trade route and drive south toward Elmina. At Assin Manso, stop on the banks of Ndonko Nsuo, the “Slave River,” Arrive in Elmina and visit the first European-built fort in Ghana, constructed by the Portuguese in 1482 and later named Elmina Castle. Seized by the Dutch in the early 17th century, and is now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Journey the lush rainforest of Kakum National Park and venture on to the park’s most popular attraction: Africa’s first and only canopy walkway, a system of bridges with platforms suspended 100 feet above the forest floor. Return to Cape Coast and visit the Slave Castle which the British took over in 1663.
- Depart Elmina to Aflao. En route stopover at Keta and journey the lagoon area and Fort Prinzenstein built by the Danes in the 18th century.
- Our exploration of Togo’s capital will take us to the National Museum, the Independence Square, the big market(Asigame), the Art and Craft center and the Akodessewa fetish market.
- Drive from Lome to Cotonou with stops en route. Explore Cotonou and drive to Porto Novo, the city with 3 names. Visit the ethnographic museum, which exhibits the Nago-Yorouba masks. These masks classified as world heritage by UNESCO, are called the GUELEDE masks. From the museum we will visit the Homme Palace, home to the former Kings of Porto Novo. We will learn more about the history of the Kingdom. We will then drive and visit the Portugeuse mosque-a symbol of the slave trade influence.
- Drive to Abomey the capital of the former Dahoxme Kingdom. On our way we will stop at the memorial of Toussaint Louverture at Allada, birthplace of all the Kingdoms south of present day Republic of Benin. At Abomey, visit the Monument at Goho square in honor of Behanzin-one of the 12 kings that reigned in the Dahoxme kingdom. Then visit the history museum of Abomey classified as world heritage by UNESCO. Here we explore the richness of the Dahoxme kingdom. Drive back to Cotonou via Ganvie- a must see lake village with its 25,000 and more inhabitants! Explore in a motor boat its floating market, streets, schools etc all on water!
- Depart to Ouidah- the slave town and home to the vodoun traditions. Visit the sacred forest of Kpasse, the Portuguese fort-now the history museum of Ouidah, the temple of phyton and take the slave route up to the door of No Return.
- Depart Ouidah to Accra with stops en route. Rest of day at leisure. Farewell banquet dinner.
- Final shopping and pack up.
