Best of Ghana With Akwasidae Festival

Arrive in Accra, meet, assist and transfer to hotel.
Brief orientation and check-into your room.
Dinner.
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Accra

Breakfast
Full day Accra City Tour. National Museum of History and Ethnography, WEB Du Bois Centre, drive through Makola Market and Old Accra – Jamestown (British Accra) & Dutch Accra.
Visit the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, third burial grounds form th first president of Ghana.
Drive around the Independence Arch, Black Star Square and shop at the Arts and Craft Market.
Lunch and Dinner included
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Accra B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out.
Depart after breakfast for Wli in the Volta Region.
Arrive and Put on your trekking shoes and enjoy a walk through a dense tropical forest, cross the meandering Agumatse River at 11 places before you arrive at the waterfall.
Your last stop will be a visit to Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary where the endangered but playful True Mona Monkeys are considered sacred and are therefore protected.
Overnight: Village stay in Tafi Atome/Wli B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out.
Depart Hohoe/ Ho for a picturesque journey through the majestic rolling hills to Amedzofe.
Arrive in Amedzofe and visit Mountain Gemi, the second highest mountain in Ghana with a 12 feet iron cross at its hermit planted in the 1880s by German missionaries in addition to other historical German architectural sites and one of the most beautiful but undiscovered waterfalls in the country. Check into your hotel and rest of day is free to rest.
Overnight: Camping at Amedzofe B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out
Depart after breakfast to Kumasi. Stop en route at Somanya to visit Cedi Beads Factory to observe traditional beads making process. This offers opportunity to make your own design.
Overnight: 2-4* Hotels in Kumasi B/L/D

Breakfast
AM: After breakfast, depart to participate in the celebration of Akwasidae Festival. Join the local folks and international visitors to celebrate Akwasidae, the Asante cultural festival which occurs in every 42days and falls on Sundays. On this day, the Asantehene (King of Ashanti) sits in State to meets his chiefs in which the general public is invited in the Manhyia Palace. The chiefs and other royals and invited guests pay Homage to His Royal Majesty the King of Asante
Evening: Visit a typical Kumasi family house for interaction and to share their evening meal.
Lunch and Dinner included
Overnight: 3/4* Hotels in Kumasi B/L/D

Breakfast
Experience Asante craftsmanship by visiting some of the Ashanti Craft villages – Bonwire/Adanwomse (Kente Weaving village), Ntonsu (Adinkra Village), Ahwiaa (Wood carving Village).
National Cultural Centre, Prempeh II Jubilee Museum, the Okomfo Anokye Sword and the Kumasi Central Market – the largest open-air market in West Africa.
Lunch and Dinner included
Overnight: 3/4* Hotels in Kumasi B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out.
Depart Kumasi to the Mole National Park in the Savannah Region. Drive through the main food crop production belt of Ghana. Break the boredom to interact with the rural community folks and learn about their life.
Stop enroute to visit Larabanga Mosque on the Mole National Park gates. This 13th century Mosque is believed to be first built by Moorish traders. Go on a tour of the Larabanga Mosque and view its distinctive façade at a distance before you arrive at Mole National Park.
Continue to the Mole the Mole National Park, the largest nature reserve in Ghana, in time to make the afternoon game drive in an off-road vehicle
Lunch and Dinner included
Overnight: Budget & 4* Lodge/Hotel B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out.
Depart Mole for Tamale, capital of the Northern Region. Arrive in Tamale and go on a city tour visiting the Centre for National Culture to shop at the Handicraft Market.
Rest of day is free to explore Tamale on your own.
Overnight: Budget & 3* Lodge/Hotel in Tamale B/L/D

Breakfast
Depart Bolgataga to visit Sirigu Pottery and Art Village (Sirigu Women’s Organization for Pottery and Art) where women apply age-old techniques to decorate their homes, produce pottery and unique art and crafts. Continue to visit the Tongo Hills, with their wondrous rock formation, caves and natural rock shelters and several shrines. Immerse yourself in the outstanding beauty of the area and the unique traditional architecture. Tour a village and interact with the people.
Return to Tamale after lunch.
Overnight: Budget & 3* Lodge/Hotel in Tamale B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out
Depart from Tamale to Kumasi. Via a stop at Shea butter processing centre.
Observe how local women go through the rudiments of Shea butter processing by gather, boil and sun-dry the nuts.
Continue to Kumasi via a stop to visit the Kintampo Waterfalls, one of the impressive falls in Ghana. Overnight: 3/5* Hotels in Kumasi B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel check out
Depart after breakfast for Cape Coast in the Central Region. Drive along several farming villages. Stop enroute to visit a local village expert Palm Wine Tapper’s Hut to observe how they use age long practices. Go on a comprehensive tour of the Castle, the slave dungeons where enslaved Africans were incarcerated, the West African Heritage Museum, and the negotiation hall where our ancestors were bargained for and sold. This UNESCO World Heritage Monument has been visited by several world personalities including US President Barack and Michelle Obama, Steve Harvey, Boris Kodjoe, Danny Glover etc.
Overnight: 3* Hotels in Elmina/Cape Coast B/L/D

Breakfast
Depart for Kakum National Park. Experience the Kakum canopy walk or go on a morning walk with its countless trees with medicinal properties.
Lunch
Continue after lunch to visit the Elmina Castle, another UNESCO World Heritage Monument which is the oldest and largest European structure built in sub-Saharan Africa.
Overnight: 3* Hotels in Elmina/Cape Coast B/L/D

Breakfast and hotel checkout
Return to Accra
Rest of day free at leisure and to do last minute shopping activities.
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Accra B/L/D

Breakfast
Check out is at 12.00Noon
Transfer to airport for departure. B