West Africa Grand Journey

Here We Go!

Visit the different Markets of Dakar: Kermel, Sandaga, and the craftsmanship market of Soumbedioune. You will likewise go through the Tilen market acclaimed for its therapeutic spices and its conventional healers. Visit the Great Mosque, stop at the president’s castle and the parliament house. You will stop at Cheick Anta Diop University to visit the beautiful locale of Medina and the private region of Fann.  Just a little ways from Dakar Port, the ferryboat will show up at Goree.  Goree Island worries about the weighty concern of 300 years of slave exchanging West Africa. The island positions today among the grouped landmarks of the World Patrimony. You will visit the Slave-House and will tune in to a talk conveyed by the curator.  You will likewise visit the bartering block, the ethnographic Museum, the fortress and cooperate with the occupants.

Secret Gems

Make the most of the present visit to Lake Retba, otherwise called the ”Pink Lake” found upper east of Dakar.  This lake is viewed as an oddity as it brags one of the most uncommon common marvels on the planet. The lake’s pinkish tint is a consequence of the unreasonable measure of Dunaliella salina green growth in the water that creates a red shade used to ingest light, which thus at that point furnishes the green growth with life-energy.  The pink tone is especially obvious during the dry season. The lake is likewise known for its plentifully high salt content.  Today you will meet the ”salt reapers” with their vivid tackle, and collaborate with the Fulani ethnic gatherings living in the encompassing towns. You will at that point eat in a run-of-the-mill eatery and after continuing to the anglers town of Cayar where you will go to the beautiful appearance of the major event fishing parties.

Fly Off

Air terminal exchange with private vehicle and guide.

The flight is required, presently excluded from the statement. Kindly contact your Destination Expert in the event that you are keen on adding this support to the schedule.

Meet your expert driver for an air terminal exchange by private vehicle.

Appreciate time at recreation to investigate at your own speed, or unwind at your lodging.

Shop the Shoppes

Withdraw for a half-day city visit through Accra visiting the National Museum of History and Ethnography with displays that mirror the legacy of Ghana from the beginning to the present. This Museum houses a shifted assortment of Ghanaian curios. Drive through Old Accra. This is a difference from Victorian, Dutch, and post-provincial design. You will drive past James Fort worked in 1673, Old Accra Square, and the Post Office. Stop to visit the Ussher Fort, one of three European fortifications in Accra that have to endure the occasions. Cooperate with the nearby individuals. For the bold guest, the Light House worked to manage ships. Keep on visiting Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, the internment spot of the main President of Ghana. This Mausoleum has been visited by numerous world dignitaries. Your last stop for the visit will be at the Arts and Crafts market where you may evaluate your dealing abilities on the neighborhood merchants and to ”shop till you drop”. Drive past the Independence Arch and the Black Star Square, Accra’s stylized grounds, to visit the Arts and Crafts market. View from the distance, Christiansborg Castle, previous office and home of the President of Ghana.

Investigate with an Expert

The town of Teshie is otherwise called the home of acclaimed configuration final resting places, created during the 1950s by Seth Kane Kwei, and still made in the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop (run by Eric Adjetey Anang) and by a few different craftsmen. These aren’t your customary, common caskets yet an uncommon practice of final resting placemaking that goes back hundreds of years in this suburb of Accra. The craftsman exchange is gone down through the family structure and is respected with extraordinary regard by others locally. The wood is cut from a specific kind of tree that fills in Ghana and has great weight and surface for final resting place development and painting. The wood is then shaved into goliath and brilliant shapes. As an approach to praise the perished, the casket is molded into an enormous, bright article that proposes the individual’s exchange while living. An angler would get a casket looking like a fish, a natural product dealer’s final resting place could be a pineapple, a photographic artist would be a camera. The casket producers even make tremendous beverage cupboards for bars looking like a container of coke or Guinness brew.

Dots are one of the interesting and lovely specialties to be found in Ghana. Travel with your private guide into the Eastern Koforidua district. Start with an initial visit to the Cedi Bead industrial facility to find out about the way toward making dots from sand and reused glass. Here, you can likewise demand a globule-making meeting, where you will have the chance to make your own personal dabs. Move time is approx. 1hr to/from Accra.

On the way

Drive through Ghana’s uneven field among Accra and Elmina. Take in the sights and sounds as you go through humble communities and towns. This drive takes approximately 3.5hrs.

Appreciate a dinner with your guide at a nearby eatery. Every feast incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

Visit Elmina Castle. Worked by the Portuguese in 1482 it is otherwise called St. George’s Castle.  This manor was the principal European construction worker in Sub – Saharan Africa.  The beautiful harbor settled beneath the Elmina Castle, brimming with pirogues getting ready to go to the ocean offers one of West Africa’s most noteworthy photograph openings. Leave on a mobile visit through Elmina, to encounter for yourself the clamoring fishing town.

Take to the Trails

A private vehicle and guide are given, and available to you for the afternoon.

Drive through the memorable Denkyira Kingdom to Kakum National Park, one of West Africa’s enduring tropical jungles. Stretching out over 360sq km, Kakum is the home to more than 40 huge warm-blooded animals and 400 bird species just as numerous types of butterflies, vegetation, and fauna. The most well-known fascination is the Canopy walkway which is comprised of seven extensions expanding 330m, hanging 30m (100 feet) over the woods floor. Pick between a 2 km nature stroll through this timberland to find the wide assortment of extraordinary botanical species and the restorative qualities they offer or go for a stroll on the overhanging walkway.

Appreciate a dinner with your guide at a nearby café. Every dinner incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

Set out on a visit through Cape Coast Castle. Worked by the Swedes in 1653 the château was subsequently taken over by the British. This is the biggest mansion to house slaves before they were transported off to different pieces of the world. This château likewise houses the West African Historical Museum set up by the Smithsonian Institute as a team with the Ghanaian Government in 1994. This exhibition hall is loaded up with authentic pictures, realities, stories, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Thereafter, look at the stronghold’s nearby market.

On the up and up

Drive from Elmina to Kumasi. Drive through the backwoods zone to Kumasi, the seat of the Ashanti Empire to investigate the legends of the renowned Ashantis, whose heritages are as yet obvious today. In transit visit Assin Manso, the site of the ”last shower” where slaves were taken for washing prior to being dispatched to the new world. It is additionally the internment spot of two previous slaves whose remains were gotten back to Ghana from the US and Jamaica. At that point proceed to Kumasi. This exchange takes approx. 5 hours, however, can take additional time contingent upon how long you spend at Assin Manso and stops made en route.

Appreciate a feast with your guide at a neighborhood eatery. Every dinner incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

Visit the Manhyia Palace Museum, to get firsthand data on the traditions of the Ashanti realm. A magnificent history that traces all the way back to 1700 is told with relics and antiquities. Appreciate a drive through the city with landmarks committed to the memory of the incomparable Ashanti individuals. End the day’s visit at the National Cultural Center which includes the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum and different studios of metal producers, potters, and batik creators.

Social Immersion

A private vehicle and guide are given, and available to you for the afternoon.

After breakfast, take a grand drive to take an interest in a Naming Ceremony. You will be driven in a parade to the Paramount Chief’s Palace grounds where the entire town has effectively gathered with the Paramount Chief prepared to play out the unique naming function which starts after a series of good greetings and discourses. Taking an interest in the naming service is no not exactly a couple of hundred local people. You will be given an African tribe name.  The Naming Ceremony, an otherworldly and significant experience, starts with the thumping of the ”front from” drums and moving performed by the neighborhood town artists who will likewise stretch out a solicitation to the gathering to partake in the remarkable social dance.  After the superb experience with the Ashanti culture of drumming and moving, visit the three acclaimed create towns in Ashanti. Ahwiaa, the woodcarvers’ town, Ntonso, the home of Adinkra and Bonwire, the Kente weaving town.

Appreciate a feast with your guide at a neighborhood café. Every feast incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

On the Road Again

Drive from Kumasi to Accra. In transit stop at Besease to visit the conventional sanctum of the Ashantis. Investigate the convictions, history, and courage of the Ashantis. You will be charmed by the Ashanti memorable oral record as it is told by an old and learned Ashanti conventional etymologist. From here, proceed to Accra. This exchange takes approx. 6hrs, however, can take longer relying upon time spent at Besease and any stops made en route.

Accra has a tad bit of everything. Appreciate time at relaxation to investigate all alone, pursue visits, or just unwind. Visit Labadi Beach where you can unwind on the seashore, tune in to nearby artists, or visit a neighborhood beachside eatery. Visit one of the numerous shops around whether at one of the shopping centers, nearby shops, or markets – like the Arts Center, Accra’s biggest outdoors market which has various segments for textures, dress, wooden carvings, adornments, and that’s just the beginning. On the off chance that you like, you could even pursue a Ghanaian dance exercise or we could orchestrate you to appreciate a drumming and moving function when you show up!

Or on the other hand pursue visits like Accra milestones visit through the city with quits including W. E. B. Dubois Center for Pan African Culture, Independence/Black Star Square, and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. Investigate the Aburi Botanical Gardens, Kokrobite Beach and drumming, Teshie/Nungua Coffins, Shai Hills Nature Reserve, Boti Falls, and that’s just the beginning. Visits can be orchestrated ahead of time or sign up on location through our nearby office or pursue visits offered by your inn.

Ranch Fresh

Does the satiny, smooth taste of chocolate stimulate your actual musings, and salivate all your preferences bud? Assuming this is the case, this visit is for you.  In the solace of a private vehicle, head out to visit the principal cocoa ranch set up in Ghana, at the Tetteh Ouarshie Cocoa Farm.  It is accepted that the absolute first cocoa plants in Ghana came to be because of the planting of seeds got from the close by Fernando Po Island, found only south of the Cameroonian mainland.  The prolific climate of Ghana gave the ideal developing climate to the cocoa plants to prosper, which brought about Ghana getting one of the biggest cocoa makers on the planet, at a certain point. During the visit to the homestead house exhibition hall and find out about the rich history of cocoa creation in Ghana. Move time around 1 hour to/from Accra.

Walking through the Museum

Drive between Accra, Ghana, and Lome, Togo today. Your guide will help you at the line intersection and point out intriguing sights en route. Simply inquire! This drive will take roughly 3 hrs.

Head out today to visit the National Museum of Lome. This gallery houses some old relics and ancient rarities uncovered by different pioneers and numerous from the neighborhood individuals who have had these articles gone down through the generations.  The things in the exhibition hall give a decent recorded base about the country.  Next, visit Independence Place, a landmark that worked to remember the country’s autonomy from France.

Live Like a Local

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Set out to investigate a portion of the city of Lome’s generally mainstream and visited areas, starting with a visit to the Grand Marche. This enormous commercial center offers a wide scope of merchandise and takes a whole city block. Dealers from the whole way across the landmass show their items for expected clients to purchase.  These merchants sell everything from new products of the soil to splendidly planned hand-tailored African printed clothing.  Next, visit a site that is a well-known draw for local people and vacationers the same. The Fetish Market is remarkable, there is a bunch of slows down showing things that are utilized for customary spices and medication, and some strange voodoo-propelled items also including skulls and snakeskin’s, crocodile heads, powders, and charms.

Sights and Insights

Make the most of your drive today from Lome, Togo through Ouidah to Cotonou, Benin. Stop en route for sights and visits. This drive will take around 3-4hrs.

Appreciate a feast with your guide at a neighborhood café. Every supper incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

Today visit the support of African customary Religion, Ouidah. Visit the sanctuary devoted to the consecrated Python, which is accepted to give essentialness and insurance; you will likewise visit the hallowed backwoods which houses numerous sanctuaries committed to different gods. Visit the verifiable Museum of Ouidah situated in an old Portuguese fortress worked in 1721. This Museum depicts Benin’s part in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Later visit the Port of No Return; a landmark worked by the Benin Government to remember the Africans that were taken from the Dahomey Empire during the Slave Trade.

The Trek Continues

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Appreciate this shocking visit to Ganvie (the town on water), usually alluded to as the Venice of West Africa. Witness firsthand, individuals of Ganvie doing their day-by-day standard as merchants in burrow kayaks make exchanges with each other and with sightseers. Take a stab at shopping among the neighborhood merchants in the drifting business sector while taking a loosening up kayak ride on the streams of this outlandish 300-year-old town. After lunch, pass through the kaleidoscopic focal point of the authoritative and business capital of Benin to see its numerous sculptures and landmarks.

Appreciate a feast with your guide at a neighborhood café. Every feast incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

Appreciate a feast with your guide at a nearby café. Every supper incorporates one water or soft drink per individual.

A Change of Scenery

Leave for Accra. Today will be an entire day of driving with a stop for lunch in Lome. This drive will take approximately 9hrs.

Today you will cross the boundary into Togo. Your guide will help you with the request interaction prior to proceeding on your excursion.

This evening, appreciate time at recreation to investigate at your own speed or unwind at your lodging.

Bon Voyage

Visit the Arts Center where you will have the chance to utilize your dealing abilities to shop from an outside market for relics from Ghana and West Africa. For better craftsmanship, look at the wonderful workmanship display close to the market. For instruments, see specialists close to the front of the market. Ask them for an exercise in drumming and arrange a value, at that point notch to Afro-thumps!

Meet your expert driver for an air terminal exchange by private vehicle.