Destinations in Ghana
Sixteen regions, one small country, and far more to see than most visitors expect. Here is where we travel and what is waiting there.
Greater Accra
Accra city centre
Monuments, museums, markets and the independence story of Ghana.
Jamestown
The oldest quarter of Accra: lighthouse, forts, boxing gyms and a working fishing harbour.
Shai Hills Reserve
Savanna reserve under an hour from the city, with baboons, antelope and caves.
Ada Foah
Where the Volta River meets the Atlantic, with sandbars and palm islands.
Central Region
Cape Coast
The seat of Ghana’s colonial history and one of the most significant sites in the Atlantic slave trade.
Elmina
St. George’s Castle, built 1482, and a fishing harbour packed with painted canoes.
Kakum National Park
360 square kilometres of rainforest crossed by a canopy walkway 40 metres up.
Assin Manso
The Ancestral Slave River site, a place of return and remembrance for the diaspora.
Eastern Region
Aburi
Cool hill town above Accra with botanical gardens laid out in 1890 and a carving village.
Akosombo & Volta Lake
The dam that powers Ghana and the largest man-made lake in the world by surface area.
Boti Falls
Twin waterfalls in the Yilo Krobo hills, reached down a long forest staircase.
Koforidua
Bead country: the home of Ghana’s glass bead making and a famous weekly bead market.
Volta Region
Wli Waterfalls
The highest waterfall in West Africa, with a colony of fruit bats above the upper falls.
Mount Afadja
Ghana’s highest peak, a steep but achievable climb with views into Togo.
Tafi Atome
A community sanctuary where mona monkeys are protected by local tradition.
Amedzofe
One of the highest settlements in Ghana, with waterfalls and a canopy walkway.
Ashanti Region
Kumasi
The heart of the Ashanti Kingdom and home to one of the largest markets in West Africa.
Bonwire
The village where kente cloth is woven, and where you can sit at the loom yourself.
Lake Bosomtwe
A sacred crater lake formed by a meteorite, ringed by hills and villages.
Ntonso & Ahwiaa
Craft villages known for adinkra cloth printing and wood carving.
Western Region
Busua & Butre
Ghana’s best surf beach and a quiet river village beside a ruined Dutch fort.
Nzulezu
A village built entirely on stilts over Lake Tadane, reached by canoe through the reeds.
Ankasa Conservation Area
Ghana’s richest rainforest, on the Ivorian border, with forest elephants and rare primates.
Axim
A quiet coastal town with a 17th-century fort and long empty beaches.
Bono & the Middle Belt
Boabeng-Fiema
A monkey sanctuary where mona and colobus monkeys are protected as sacred.
Kintampo Falls
A three-stage waterfall dropping through forest, one of the most photographed in Ghana.
Techiman
One of West Africa’s largest open markets, at the crossroads between north and south.
Bui National Park
Riverside park on the Black Volta, with hippos, antelope and very few other visitors.
Northern Ghana
Mole National Park
Ghana’s largest park, where elephants come to the waterhole below the lodge.
Tamale
The gateway to the north, with a distinct culture, cuisine and craft tradition.
Paga
The crocodile ponds on the Burkina border, where crocodiles and people live side by side.
Sirigu
A village famous for the painted geometric murals its women create on their homes.
Come as a visitor. Leave with fond memories of Ghana.
Tell us your dates and what you would love to see. We will reply within a few hours with a plan, a price and no pressure.