5 Days Ghana Private Tour

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1Arrive in Ghana⌄

   Arrive in Ghana. You will be pick up at the airport and transferred to your hotel. There will be a welcome dinner and drinks accompanied with African dance and drums where you meet everyone else on the trip including your in country trip leaders.

   Meals: Dinner: There will be welcome drinks as well.

   Overnight: GC Royal Hotel

2. 2Explore Accra⌄

   This is the last and final resting place of the first president of the Republic of Ghana. It houses a curious collection of Nkrumah's personal belongings, including the smock he wore while declaring Ghana's independence, as well as copies of personal correspondence and numerous photos of him and various world leaders.

   Black Star Square is a site for Ghana's Independence Day parade, which falls on the 6th of March every year. The Independence Arch in Accra, Ghana, contains monuments to Ghana's independence struggle, including the Independence Arch, Black Star Gate, and the Liberation Day Monument. The Independence Square is the second largest City Square in the world after the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

   Accra’s largest open-air market which overflows with goods, people, scents and sounds, hustle and bustle. It is the best place to absorb the atmosphere of a West African market. It is quite an amazing place with lots of very narrow alleyways and women walking about with huge bowls and other packages on their heads. Good place to shop for most things but very crowded most times. Get almost everything you need for your home at reasonable rate. Your guide to show you the more interesting parts of the market and find some cool vantage spots for excellent photo opportunities. Plan to spend the day, there is plenty to see.

   Pan Africanism memorial centre. Here we will learn about WEB Du Bois. An American sociologist, socialist and historian.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch

   Overnight: GC Royal

3. 3Drive to Cape Coast via Assin Manso⌄

   We will visit the Assin Manso slave river and market which was the final place salves had their last bath before they were made to walk bare footed through the virgin forest for 3 weeks to the castles and were shipped to the unknown world.

   We will discover how slaves were kept in the dungeon awaiting for the ships and visit the door of no return.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch

   Overnight: Golden Hill Parker Hotel

4. 4Naming Ceremony. Explore Kakum National Park and Elmina Castle⌄

   Kakum Rainforest and Canopy Walk is one of the few only existing canopy walks in the world. We will visit and explore the park and the hanging bridges.

   Elmina castle is the largest and the oldest European building in existence below the sub sahara. Over here, we will have an immersive guided tour of the castle.

   Today we will visit the chief palace about the traditions of the local people. We will also have a typical naming ceremony where we will be given names base on the day we are born as it is a custom in the Ghanaian culture and dressed in a African clothing.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch

   Overnight: Golden Hill Parker Hotel

5. 5Visit the Arts Market. Depart Ghana⌄

   Today will be our last day in Ghana. We will visit the Accra Arts Center to make our last souvenir shopping. We will drop you off at the airport in time to enable you catch your flights with not much stress.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch