Tour includes the following:
Transportation: Transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle.
Accommodation: Best 5/4 Star hotels. Hotels feature air-conditioned rooms with private baths, TV and telephone, bar & restaurant and swimming pool.
Meals: Breakfast daily.
Entry Fees: All entry fees included in this tour package are included as stated in itinerary.
Guiding Services: A trained licensed chauffeur and a professional tour guide will accompany.
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Depart Washington Dulles International via UA # 996 at 6:30 p.m.
Arrive in Accra, Ghana at 8:40 a.m. You will be met at the airport by Landtours representatives who will assist you with your transfer from the airport to your hotel. Enjoy a welcome drink at the hotel and participate in an orientation session. Dressmakers will take measurements and sew clothes for interested participants.
Afterwards, depart for a sightseeing tour of Accra, the Capital of Ghana. Experience the city’s highlights during this Accra orientation. The capital of Ghana since 1877, Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region. In addition, it’s the country’s most populous city. Travel through the administrative and economic districts of Accra. Also, see the Artiste Alliance Gallery, the W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Pan African Culture and the Independence/Black Star Square. Learn about important events in Ghana’s history and the country’s first president who helped lead Ghana to independence.
Continue your tour to The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, dedicated to the legacy of Ghana’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah, and his role in African independence. The tour includes visits to Nkrumah’s mausoleum, a museum showcasing his life, his personal residence, the eternal Flame of African Liberation, and beautifully landscaped gardens. Learn about Nkrumah’s early life, political career, and Pan-African vision. End the day’s tour at the Arts Center, where participants can sharpen their bargaining skills to shop for arts and crafts from Ghana and West Africa in an open-air market. On display, you will see fabrics of different materials, designs, colors and textures to purchase.
Overnight at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel. Meals Included: Dinner.
Check out of the hotel early morning after breakfast and embark on a journey from Accra to Kumasi. Upon arrival, you will explore the legends of the famous Ashantis, whose legacies are still evident today. Firstly, visit Manhyia Palace Museum to obtain firsthand information on the legacies of the Ashanti kingdom. A regal history that dates back to 1700 is told with relics and artefacts. Enjoy a drive through the city with monuments dedicated to the memory of the great Ashanti people. End the day’s tour at the National Cultural Center which features the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum and various studios of the brass makers, potters and batik makers.
Overnight at Lancaster Hotel Kumasi. Meals included: Breakfast and Dinner.
After breakfast, depart your hotel and visit the three famous Ashanti craft villages; Ahwiaa, the wood carvers’ village, Ntonso, the home of Adinkra cloth, and Bonwire, the Kente weaving village. You will have an opportunity to see how African crafts are made and to buy directly from the artisans who make them.
Overnight at Lancaster Kumasi Hotel. Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner.
Kumasi – Assin Manso – Slave Dungeon Experience (Cape Coast Castle)
After breakfast, check out of your hotel and depart to Cape Coast. En route, stop at Assin Manso. Visit the site of “Donkor Nsuo”, the former Slave River and market, the final transit point for a large number of enslaved Africans. This is the final resting place for two ancestors whose mortal remains were returned from the USA and Jamaica and re-interred there.
Continue to Cape Coast and embark on a tour of the infamous Forts, Castles, and Slave Dungeons of Ghana. History will unfold the story of the slave trade the impact of which is still felt beyond the shores of Africa today. Visit the Cape Coast Castle built by the Swedes in 1653 and was later taken over by the British. Here, you will learn about the relationship between the western slave traders and the African tribes that made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible. It is an opportunity to be up close with history – to stand in the dark and stuffy dungeons, imagining the experience and conditions that millions of Africans endured. This castle also houses the West African Historical Museum.
Overnight at Ridge Royal Hotel. Meals included: Breakfast and Dinner.
Join the group for “kasa” (talk time). Kasa provides an opportunity to learn more about Ghanaian culture or simply talk to each other and share impressions of the tour experience. Kasa discussions are led by your tour leader or tour guide. (This activity is optional).
After breakfast, depart your hotel and drive through the historic Denkyira Kingdom to Kakum National Park, one of West Africa’s surviving tropical rain forests. Choose between a 2 km nature walk through the rain forest to discover the wide variety of exotic flora and fauna species and the medicinal values they offer or take a walk on the canopy walkway hanging 40 meters above the forest ground.
After lunch on your own, visit Elmina Castle, also known as St. George’s Castle, which was built by the Portuguese in 1482. Here, learn about the relationship between the western slave traders and the African tribes that participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Here participants will witness the dark and stuffy dungeons local people were forced to endure before being sent on a long and perilous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. To see the truth of these conditions in person is a powerful reminder of the inhumanity of the slave trade.
Overnight at Ridge Royal Hotel. Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch.
After breakfast, explore Elmina, a fishing village that is picturesque, gritty, charming and though-provoking. What better way to appreciate it than to immerse oneself in its main industry – fishing! Meet with local fishermen to learn the intricacies of their trade and the challenges they face in their day-to-day work. Next, meet the fish mongers in the village who will demonstrate the various stages of smoking the fish in earthenware ovens. This is a unique way to experience one of Ghana’s oldest and important trades. Return to Accra in the afternoon.
Overnight at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel. Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner.
After breakfast, check out of your hotel for the West African country of Togo. Upon arrival, head straight for a city tour of Lome, the capital city. Drive by the Musée National (National Museum), as well as the Place de I’ Independence (Place of Independence, where the Independence Monument is situated). Visit Grand Marche (Grand Market) and Marche des Feticheurs (Fetish Market).
Overnight at Hotel 2 Fevrier. Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch.
After breakfast, check out and depart for a visit to Ouidah, the cradle of African Traditional Religion, enroute to Cotonou, the capital city of Benin. Tour the temple dedicated to the sacred Python, which is believed to give vitality and protection; you will also pay a visit to the sacred forest which houses many shrines dedicated to various deities.
Afterwards, visit the Port of No Return; a monument built by the Benin Government to commemorate the Africans that were taken from the Dahomey Empire during the Slave Trade. Continue the journey northwards to Cotonou. Check in at hotel, enjoy Dinner on your own and relax.
Overnight at Golden Tulip Le Diplomate. Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch.
After breakfast, check out of your hotel and embark on a sensational visit to Ganvie (the village on water), commonly referred to as the Venice of West Africa. Witness first hand, the people of Ganvie carrying out their daily routine as vendors in dugout canoes piled high with wares, transacting commerce with one another and with tourists. You will enjoy shopping on the floating market and taking a relaxing canoe ride on the waterways of this exotic 300-year-old village on stilts. Afterwards, depart to Accra with a lunch stop in Lome. Upon arrival in Accra, check into your hotel.
Overnight at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel. Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner.
After breakfast, spend the morning at leisure. At noon, check out of the hotel. Later in the evening, depart to the airport for check in and fly back home.
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