RETURN TO YOUR ROOTS
PILGRIMAGE TOUR TO GHANA – A SANKOFA EXPERIENCE
DAY 1: ARRIVAL
Arrive in Accra, meet, assist and transfer to hotel
Brief orientation and check-into your room
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Accra B
DAY 2: ACCRA CITY TOUR & SIGHTSEEING
Breakfast
Full day Accra City Tour.
- Visit Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, WEB Du Bois Centre, Makola Market, drive through Old Accra – Jamestown (British Accra) & Dutch Accra. Drive around the Independence Arch, Black Star Square and shop at the Arts and Craft Market.
Including Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Accra B/L/D
DAY 3: TRADITIONAL BEADS & CHIEF PALACE VISIT
Breakfast
Depart Accra for
- Courtesy call on the chiefand elders of a community amidst traditional drumming and dancing
- Naming ceremony
- Beads Factoryto observe the process of traditional bead-making .
- Including Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Accra B/L/D
DAY 4: ACCRA – ASANTE KINGDOM TOUR
Breakfast and hotel checkout
- Depart to Kumasi and explore the Asante Kingdom
- Go on a city tour of Kumasi visiting the Manhyia Palace and the Palace Museum.
- Dinner
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Kumasi B/D
DAY 5: KUMASI CITY TOUR & CRAFTS VILLAGES
Breakfast
Experience Asante craftmanship 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.
Including Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: 2-5* Hotels in Kumasi B/L/D
DAY 6: KUMASI – ELMINA & ASSIN MANSO SLAVE RIVER AND MARKET
Breakfast and hotel checkout
Depart Kumasi to Elmina with a stop at Assin Manso
- Visit the DONKO NSUO (the slave river) where the African captiveswere allowed to take their last bath in waters of their native land before transported to the slave dungeons for shipment
See also the burial site of the remains of two ancestors and a third exhumed from New York’s Wall Street & Kingston Jamaica and re-interred on the Emancipation Day 1998. The third ancestor was also brought and interred by the Prime Minister of Barbados in November 2019 as part of the “YEAR OF RETURN” GHANA 2019.
- Visit the Elmina Castlea UNESCO Heritage Site. The first and oldest European structure built of any substance on African soil; built by the Portuguese in 1482. Go on a comprehensive guided tour of the castle and see the slave dungeons and condemn cells where enslaved Africans who attempted to escape were incarcerated.
Overnight: 3* Hotels in Elmina/Cape Coast B
DAY 7: RAINFORESTS & CAPE COAST DUNGEONS
Breakfast
- Visit the Kakum National Parkand go on a hike in the forest to experience the canopy walkway suspended 100ft from the forest ground.
- Cape Coast Castlea UNESCO Heritage Site which was originally started by the Swedes in 1652. for a comprehensive guided tour of the Castle, the slave dungeons
- Lunch
Overnight: 3* Hotels in Elmina/Cape Coast B/L
DAY 8: LEISURE ON THE BEACH
Breakfast
Day free for rest and relaxation at hotel’s beach or enjoy swimming in your hotel’s pool and use other facilities.
Dinner
Overnight: 3* Hotels in Elmina/Cape Coast B/D
DAY 9: ELMINA – ACCRA
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
DAY 10: DEPARTURE
Breakfast
Check out and transfer to airport for departure.
